Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein, managing out at the Borg. I'm joined by Will Sout, and this is actually the second video I'm cutting today. We haven't released one of them yet that has to deal with Donald Trump and architectural design. The other one that's coming out is about the impending Trump presidential library. Stay tuned for that one. This one's about the White House ballroom, which is Trump's almost

singular obsession these days. And the reason we're doing this one first, even though we recorded

the other one, is because we have breaking news. A judge has, as of Tuesday afternoon,

ordered to halt the construction of the $400 million project. It's estimated to be $400 million. We

don't know. It's U.S. District Judge

Richard Leon, who disagreed with Trump and his argument that he, the president, has brought

authority to make changes to the White House. This is the quote from the 35-page ruling that

the judge issued. It says this. Well, it says, the President of the United States is the steward of the

White House for future generations of first families. He is not, however, the owner exclamation point.

And I went on to say that, he said that, quote, no statute comes close to giving the president

the authority he claims to have. Now, well, if you had to predict how Donald Trump took this news, what kind of adjective would you? Oh, very well. I'm sure, I'm sure he was, I'm sure he was fully compliant, Sam. You're wrong. Okay. Donald Trump went to, went to True Social. And I don't even know, honestly, this was so fast that maybe he had this in the can. Maybe he was just riffing. We don't know. But this is what he wrote on Truth Social. He said, I'm not going to read the whole thing. It's long. The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a ballroom that is under budget ahead of schedule being built at no cost to taxpayer and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world. I think it sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated Instructuring in San Former Kennedy Center, now the Trump Kennedy Center, yada, yada, yada, it just goes on and on and on. So, yeah, a big setback for Trump. I wouldn't be shocked, honestly, if he just said, screw the judge,

I'm going forward with it. But what are your thoughts? Sam, I don't walk by the White House

regularly, and I was just looking at where it is now. And there's just a gigantic hole.

And I mean, they just, they tore down the East Wing. And it's a giant construction site. And I mean, it's classic Trump, right?

Tear it down first. Don't ask any questions. And then instead of like a normal situation,

like a normal president might have consulted Congress, right, which is what you're supposed to do,

or like consult some other body that's the historic trust or whatever. This guy tears it down first. So he's in, we're in this bizarre

situation where he's destroyed a thing and there's nothing to replace it. And now he's, he's

dependent on what, the Democrats in Congress to go along with some sort of bipartisan, they're not going to do that.

We can have a hole in the ground for a further.

The other alternative is just a gaping hole in the ground where the East Wing used to be, right?

I mean, that's the alternative.

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