4-28-26 BONUS LUNCH EP - Trump Now Wants $400 Million In Taxpayer Funded Money To Pay For His Ballroom
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Lunch Hour Podcast — Lunch Edition
Donald Trump's latest round of claims starts to unravel as new reporting exposes major inconsistencies in his narrative. We break down what's real, what's spin, and why it matters right now. Plus, Senator Lindsey Graham introduces a controversial bill that would tap U.S. taxpayer dollars for a $400 million ballroom project—raising serious questions about priorities, optics, and accountability.
It's a fast, focused midday update covering the headlines everyone's talking about and the details you might've missed.
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| 0:00.0 | Turns out Donald Trump lied about that privately funded ballroom as now Senator Lindsey Graham is seeking $400 million in your tax money to pay for it. |
| 0:11.6 | We're going to discuss this wild, wild new lie. |
| 0:15.5 | Here it is. |
| 0:16.2 | Lindsay Graham says they are going to introduce legislation to pay for the ballroom. We pay for it by offsetting it |
| 0:23.5 | with customs fees. The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for the country. I disagree. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't think anybody in their right mind wants this ballroom. Unless ballroom is code for universal |
| 0:34.0 | health care, I think they can go stick it. Medea San says, I feel like I'm losing my mind. |
| 0:39.5 | This can't be real. Is this real? Is it a movie? A dream? They're all just obsessed with straight |
| 0:44.0 | faces about an effing ballroom. Now listen, we know there's blackmail on Lindsey Graham. I just can't |
| 0:50.3 | imagine he's willing to sell his soul all because he's still in the closet or whatever his |
| 0:55.0 | big secret is. There has to be more to it. He's war hungry. He's like Trump's henchman, |
| 1:01.7 | even though Trump hates the guy. He's such a pick me. And yet he's up for re-election in South |
| 1:08.2 | Carolina. And he has a pretty solid chance of being reelected. |
| 1:12.1 | Like, who wants this? So let's listen to what he has to say. And then I'll share the lies from |
| 1:17.1 | our president where he said all along this would be privately funded. And by the way, even when it |
| 1:23.1 | was supposed to be privately funded, we know that there's no such thing as a free lunch. |
| 1:28.1 | That's Economics 101, which means whoever is funding it privately will get backdoor deals. |
| 1:34.4 | They're not going to be wasting their money. |
| 1:36.5 | And now we know this funding is also going to be coming from taxpayer dollars if this vote goes through. |
| 1:41.9 | Have a listen. |
| 1:42.4 | We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize $400 million to be spent to |
| 1:50.2 | secure the, to build the presidential ballroom. Underneath there will be a lot of military stuff. |
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