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Trump Ballroom Fight Heads to Federal Court

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Trump Ballroom Fight Heads to Federal Court

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0:00.0

This guy doesn't even look like he has experience asking for a haircut.

0:05.0

What did he tell his barber? Give me the sushi?

0:09.0

Hey, does this one come with miso soup?

0:14.0

This man is totally unprepared and ill-equipped for this job.

0:25.6

How will he ever fit in with the Fox News Weekend Morning Host who runs the Pentagon or the Supplements Pitchman who administers Medicare or the fake wrestling CEO who runs education

0:31.5

or the road rules guy who makes sure planes don't fall out of the sky?

0:35.1

Oh, he's going to fit in perfectly?

0:36.6

Great.

0:39.0

The Daily Show there last night, our thanks to them. Welcome to the fourth hour of morning,

0:44.3

Joe, on this Friday morning. It is just before 6 a.m. out on the West Coast, 9 a.m. here in the

0:50.0

east. And we have a packed hour ahead. In just a few minutes, a federal appeals court will hear arguments in the fight over President Trump's proposed White House ballroom.

0:59.5

The administration is making national security, its main argument, to continue construction, specifically pointing to the April 25th shooting at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

1:12.4

In court documents, the government argues, quote, such unacceptable threats to the president's life and to the continuity of government

1:18.0

will persist because the president has no secure facility capable of hosting large-scale events

1:24.0

on the White House grounds. But the National Trust for Historic Preservation,

1:29.0

the nonprofit organization that brought the lawsuit, has pushed back on that assertion,

1:34.4

saying a massive new ballroom isn't a national security necessity. Also, the correspondence

1:40.4

that are shooting was at a hotel in Washington. It was never going to be at the White House.

1:45.9

Joining us now from outside the D.C. Circuit Court, MS. Now Legal Affairs reporter, Fallon, Gallagher.

1:51.8

Fallon, good morning. Give us a preview. What should we expect to hear today?

1:57.6

Yeah, Jonathan, today's going to be a really big day because while they've been making this

2:01.5

national security argument in the court of public opinion, this is the first time that they're

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