{"id":112928,"date":"2025-10-27T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112928"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:49:52","slug":"112928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112928","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s like the media is a cat and Trump has the world\u2019s biggest laser pointer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump-haters\u2019 White House ballroom tantrums get even more ridiculous.<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has done it again \u2014 sent the left and the media (but I repeat myself) down a rabbit hole of absurdity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the media is a cat and Trump has the world\u2019s biggest laser pointer,\u201d Margo Cleveland posted on X, \u201cwith it currently aimed at the new ballroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right: While Trump tours Asia, dancing, making trade deals and apparently having a blast, he\u2019s got his opponents back in the Swamp obsessing over . . . a home renovation project.<\/p>\n

Using donated funds, not taxpayer money, Trump is rebuilding the White House\u2019s shabby East Wing \u2014 originally added to cover up construction of a bomb shelter during World War II \u2014 to create a large and modern space that meets the needs of today\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

Naturally, this has the usual gang of idiots fuming.<\/p>\n

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Saturday lectured his fellow Democrats not to even imagine running for the presidential nomination unless they \u201cpledge to take a wrecking ball\u201d to Trump\u2019s renovation.<\/p>\n

As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, we wonder when Democrats in Congress will regain touch with reality, or if that\u2019s even a thing for most of them anymore.<\/p>\n

Trump inspires a new wave of nationalism \u2014 from Japan to Argentina
\n(Cleveland commented: \u201cThe funniest thing about this is not that Swalwell posted it, but that he thought it was so brilliant that he reposted it.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Talk show host Joe Walsh, who once cosplayed as a Republican, took up Swalwell\u2019s demand: \u201cI\u2019ll say it every day for the next 3yrs,\u201d he wrote, \u201cany Democrat running for president in 2028 MUST pledge to tear down Trump\u2019s ballroom. It matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does it? Does it really?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hilarious to see such reactions from Democrats like these, along with Joe Scarbrough, Stephanie Ruhle and other Very Serious People, to a project that enriches our national infrastructure and won\u2019t cost taxpayers a dime.<\/p>\n

Those who a couple of years ago were toppling monuments to America\u2019s founders and denouncing America itself as a slave state are now posing as defenders of our deep history and heritage.<\/p>\n

Because nothing says \u201cdeep history and heritage\u201d like a structure built in 1942 to hide a bomb shelter.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s new White House annex will contain a lot more space, including a huge ballroom with a drone-proof metal roof and other security enhancements.<\/p>\n

Up to now, big state dinners have been held in tents on the White House lawn, with portable space heaters, awkward temporary restrooms \u2014 and zero overhead protection against security threats like drones, which are becoming a bigger and bigger danger.<\/p>\n

The new building will make formal receptions and other big events safer and more comfortable.<\/p>\n

Even some on the left are jumping ship on this ridiculous outcry against an addition that many, including Biden and Obama staffers, have publicly advocated.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post, no friend of Trump\u2019s, editorialized in favor of the renovation \u2014 while complaining about the way he\u2019s going about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible,\u201d the paper tut-tutted.<\/p>\n

But, it went on, \u201cit is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Trump\u2019s rapid construction program contrasts sharply with many other DC-area projects, mired in the usual slough of permitting, environmental reviews and \u201cnot in my back yard\u201d complaints from the perpetually aggrieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere,\u201d the WaPo concluded with grudging approval.<\/p>\n

Heck, even Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is on board.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are always wasting millions on tents and heaters and chairs and lights and everything else,\u201d he reasoned on X. \u201cStop acting like you have some emotional attachment to the East Wing. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

But most of the leftists have to pretend.<\/p>\n

If Trump is for it, a large segment of this country just has to be against it, and in the most overwrought, over-moralizing way.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t help themselves.<\/p>\n

Thus when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted a Harvard study suggesting a link between consuming Tylenol in pregnancy and autism in children, pregnant Democratic women started posting TikTok videos of themselves gobbling the tablets: That\u2019ll show Trump!<\/p>\n

Some reportedly wound up in the emergency room, but resisting Trump was more important.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a longstanding joke on the right that if Trump gave a speech praising \u201coxygen, beautiful oxygen,\u201d people on the left would cover their heads with plastic bags.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not far from the truth.<\/p>\n

All this programmed hysteria does keep a certain segment of the crazy leftist base riled up in a state of excitement that Democratic leadership relies on for donations and votes.<\/p>\n

But it seems they\u2019re usually riled up about what Trump wants them to be \u2014 that is, things that make them look stupid, and get them chasing that laser dot around in circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s like the media is a cat and Trump has the world\u2019s biggest laser pointer.\u201d Trump-haters\u2019 White House ballroom tantrums get even more ridiculous. President Donald Trump has done it again \u2014 sent the left and the media (but I repeat myself) down a rabbit hole of absurdity. \u201cIt\u2019s like the media is a cat … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-moron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112929,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112928\/revisions\/112929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}