Updated — after Mozart at Pritzker Pavillion, Friday night: Hinderaker makes the preposterous and belated claim that Trump‘s entire ballroom project was really only a pure national security imperative. That Trump was concerned that he was unsafe inside his own White House, so he decided he had to build nearly 100,000 square foot… above ground ballroom. Heh! Obviously this is preposterous. But that’s John story and he’s sticking into it. And it seems that the Trumpian judge Naemi Rao has also bought the same pile of crap. Onward, grinning; and end of update.

The man is a blithering idiot octogenarian — and an entitled trainwreck of endless nonsense. These are… facts.

What is most-maddening is he thinks we the taxpayers must foot the bill — for his malevolent incompetence. No more. Here’s that upper court opinion, just published:

…Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence. The President has no — and claims no — constitutionally assigned authority over that property, which is designed and maintained for the use of all Presidents, current and future, and for the American people….

We are aware of no instance in American history in which a President unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for. Until now….

Over just three days in October 2025, without undertaking promised consultations or obtaining Congress’s permission, President Trump bulldozed the entire East Wing in order to construct a massive, 90,000 square-foot ballroom paid for by private funds with no congressional oversight. There is no factual dispute at this juncture — in fact, the Defendants admit — that the erection of this enormous ballroom will “have permanent adverse impacts on the cultural landscape” of President’s Park….

Of course, Trump-appointed MAGA Judge Rao entered a largely silly (partisan) dissent. She will not matter. At all.

So this — like so many others — will be handed on to the Supremes. And Tangerine 2.0 will be dead in the water, there. Onward.

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