Steve Schmidt: $500 Million Makes No Sense
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Lindsey Graham is now demanding taxpayer money for Trump's ballroom. Steve Schmidt explains why it's a symbol of corruption, incompetence, and a disgrace to the People's House.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | People of South Carolina, this is your United States Senator. |
| 0:09.2 | And by the way, you do know that you can get rid of him in November. |
| 0:14.3 | There's a much better choice running against him. |
| 0:17.5 | She's a doctor. |
| 0:19.0 | Lindsay Graham is not herpes. |
| 0:21.6 | Herpes last forever. |
| 0:24.6 | Lindsay Graham can be made to disappear. |
| 0:27.6 | And disappear he should be made to do |
| 0:31.6 | with a rebuke at the ballot box for idiocy like this. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize $400 million to be spent to secure |
| 0:47.3 | the, to build the presidential ballroom. Underneath there will be a lot of military stuff. |
| 0:53.3 | There will be a secret service annex and we've paid for it by offsetting it with custom fees. |
| 1:01.0 | But the estimate is $332 million. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to do $400 million because I think it's probably going to take more. |
| 1:08.0 | Private donations can be used, but I think they should be used for |
| 1:11.8 | buying China and stuff like that. Underneath this ballroom will be infrastructure that is |
| 1:18.4 | national security centric. The ballroom itself will avoid the dilemma of having to leave |
| 1:24.5 | the White House grounds with future presidents and this presidents to go downtown and a place that's less secure. |
| 1:30.3 | President Trump said to me this morning, |
| 1:35.3 | excuse me, yesterday, we need the ballroom not just for me but for future presidents. |
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