Trump says his ballroom might cost more than $300 million but adds, "you know we're building the arc. Maybe we use it for the arc. We raised a lot of money for the ballroom, so maybe we'll put -- the arc is going to be incredible for Washington DC, so maybe we use it for the… pic.twitter.com/D9yuyWpC7e
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 25, 2025
October 25, 2025
"You know we're building the ark," said Noah.
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Is it an arc or an ark? Do we ding Trump for mispronouncing it?
I assume there will be no furries, or LGBTQ+ invited on the arc. That wouldn't make sense.
You know Trump is just going to change the official pronunciation of that word to match his royal preference.
Noah brought all the animals on two by two...except for the polyamorous he had a different procedure...not specified.
Ugh, what a tool.
Riiight. What’s a cubit?
“ Is it an arc or an ark? Do we ding Trump for mispronouncing it?”
The words are pronounced the same. I just thought it was funny to hear Trump say ‘we’re building the “ark”’ as if God‘s vengeance is coming and he’s the one in the know.
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OK, I saw the little smirk on his face, but I still don't get it.
I mean, if he was trying to say arch, then he was pronouncing it wrong but if you’re familiar with the Arc de Triomphe then that’s the relevant arc.
He said “building the ark” over and over, so I think he is deliberately making the pun and being humorous about the biblical dimension of his mission
Maybe he means the ARC - the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, associated with JBP and a lot of other righties. Maybe he can have the next ARC Conference in the ballroom:
https://www.arc-conference.com/
CC, JSM
Arcs are for cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Arc de Trump - not Arc de Triomphe
Old Man Trump need neck-back-arch-straighten-support first?
Arch de Trumpf
Tractor rupar is a tedious tool
Arc D’Rumpf
Ooo, butt jokes, awesome.
I think he pronounced it as arc instead of arch to emphasize this is what other countries have. Because now everyone adds an explanation about France’s arc.
all that Truthing get Trump --> Spine docs alarmed over 'tech neck' hazard for young smartphone users
Scroll comments on X, for fun. Same four or five comments over and over, some using different words. Even a couple of Althouse commenters there
They do remove all doubt
“Arch de Trumpf”
It doesn’t take much for lefties to reveal their true nature:
“We love immigrants.” - then make fun of an immigrant’s name.
“We love Jews (in fact I have relatives in Israel)” - then say a Jew they disagree with looks like a Nazi officer.
“We love gays.” - then imply a Republican governor is effeminate.
“We love blacks.” - then suggest Clarance Thomas has low intelligence.
Repulsive.
Noah was mocked by some for building his Ark too, and those that mocked were wrong and wound up regretting it later. Maybe that is the comparison he is trying to draw.
He added to the White House timeline, so why not continue work on the Long Arc of History?
I just read that the Old Testament makes no mention of anyone mocking Noah for he building his ark.
Those stories were "Fake News"!
Make mine an arc d'croissant and a hot cup of covfefe.
Amidst climate change, Trump builds an ark of State with great appeal to the arc of historical significance and to the morbid consternation of his arch competitors. #HateLovesAbortion
The hysteria about the new ballroom is going to boomerang on the hysterics. It looks quite nice - windows on three sides - so when it's finished Trump can stand there and talk endlessly about how the hysterics wanted to stop it and how they thought America didn't deserve a nice ballroom.
So God is about to wipe out liberal decadence, but Trump is building an ark for MAGA? Awesome.
"Depending on how you pay attention to something, you see something different there…”
“Work Zone” signs here in Georgia say “End Increased Speeding Fines”. I’m like, Who is not for ‘ending increased speeding fines’? I was reading it as a call to action.
YouTube: A comical example
they are sort of scavengers aren't they,
jim said...
OK, I saw the little smirk on his face, but I still don't get it.
Trump is trolling for retards.
You people keep biting. Look at Victoria. It is too easy for him.
“We love immigrants.” - then make fun of an immigrant’s name.”
Trump isn’t an immigrant. Also if one is likening the arch Trump wants to build to another famous arc and make a play on words, one might put an f after Trump. Duh.
Arc de Triomphe
Arch de Trumpf
everyone understands what he means, now the people who craved the destruction of the statues the churches even the White House in the fall of 2020, should be silent
The Arc de Trumphe.
Prof, you are reading too much into things again.
He's talking like a builder about what he's building, responding to a question. Stop worshipping him and attributing more than what is there? And yes, he pronounced it correctly.
This is like the onion rings and carrots thing. Only you see a reference to Noah's ark here.
AI : The Ark of the Covenant was a… gold-plated wooden chest that held the Epstein files.
"AI : The Ark of the Covenant was a… gold-plated wooden chest that held the Epstein files."
Sounds like something Inga would post. Only she'd be serious. And it would be 20x longer.
He’s talking about the arch he’s commissioned that has a statue of lady Liberty on top. It does look a lot like the Arch de Triomphe. He was showing off different sized models of it last week. He naturally picked the largest…lol..
"I wonder why everyone on the left is so upset about President Trump‘s expansion of the White House that is being 100% funded by donations, but have zero interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsom‘s California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA’s and cronyism.
https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1980471175496204468
I don’t recall where it will be placed exactly, but it won’t be on WH grounds…
A real Renoir is coming up for auction. It might go nicely with the one or two excellent copies of Renoirs DT has been known to own. Very small, price not in the range of the famous "lunching of the boating party." Domestic/family scene with young Jean, later a famous filmmaker. Maybe 1.5 million Euros? A bit more in U.S. dollars.
Tilted Arc
Albert Speer designed a massive Triumphal Arch as a key feature of the planned Welthauptstadt Germania for Berlin. The arch, which was to be nearly 120 meters (400 ft) high, would have been large enough to fit the Arc de Triomphe inside its opening.
Arc, arch, ark - a pressing concern for the Orcs.
If he’s building an Arc, then who is Joan in this one?
Trump's barrage of messages reminds me of the WW2 tactic in which Allied bombers dropped strips of metal foil ("chaff") to create false radar returns, overwhelming German radar and making it difficult to distinguish between real aircraft and decoys. I'm constantly having to distinguish between real announcements and announcements aimed at diversion and division of his enemies.
I wonder if Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House because he needs a place to park the Ark. Maybe the ballroom will be in the Ark. The ballroom on the Titanic seated 554.
you have to remind the press, because 'they have the attention span of a ferret on double expresso' and yet they still get distracted
The worn out verses
of burned-out nurses
Rupar… RuPaul… it’s all the same.
12:44 Eva - spot on.
Furries can all choke on dicks. Is that allowed? or will I be jailed by the Soviets? In need of re-programming.
I have dealt with him, in the past, hes as stupid as he seems, like 1/2 sisson,
New Althouse tag: Trump is like Noah?
Q up your Molotov cocktails - oh leftwing terrorists.
Here is the list of donors - Paying for Trump's improvements to the White House. Sorry Maddow- Not your house - you bitch.
if you spay them, they might give up the pretense, good lord the DSM is becoming the size of the British Library,
My prediction - his ballroom will never be built. Maybe something half the size and not as tall. Why isn’t 500 seats enough?
I think his obsession with bigness has something to do with the size of his dick. See South Park if you don’t believe me.
As for the arc, if it’s not at the White House and not covered in gold I’m good
South Park - where Leftists go for Newz.
they showed their mettle with the dolphin episode after the Times Square bombing attempt, and have groveled to manbearpig Al Gore's traveling medicine show,
’My prediction - his ballroom will never be built.’
That’s on odd prediction with demolition underway. What do you think will happen in the old East Wing footprint if it isn’t built?
As for the arc, if it’s not at the White House and not covered in gold I’m good
I would like to take note of a left-leaning Althouse commenter's admirably rational attitude about this matter. Thanks for a pleasant afternoon interlude, jim5301 - with utter sincerity!
That list of donors shows that quite a few corporations have decided it's a good idea to stay on the good side of Trump, something the Canadian government has yet to figure out.
Carney is not the sharpest knife in the shed,
My prediction - his ballroom will never be built.
Yeah. Let's save that one. I mean, with your track record we can take it to the bank.
I think 4 years of Soviet-Joe -/ Mafia-king pin puppet - pushed the big companies over the edge.
So much Biden coerced censorship. Trump is like a breathe of fresh air.
It’s surprising (sarc) none of the educated elite have thought to mention that an Arc de Triomphe is in keeping with Pierre l’enfant’s original design for Washington, which was inspired by Paris and other European cities. President Trump‘s Arc honors tradition.
That said, if DJT were 10 years younger, he, Elon, and others would’ve found a way to put an Arc in America’s moonbase and Martian settlement, next to the Stars and Stripes. That would have gotten the anti-colonialists in a tizzy.
“My prediction - his ballroom will never be built.”
I love this prediction. Once again lefties are arguing over the least important thing. Trump has got you lefties arguing about something that is of zero importance. You folks were supposed to be arguing about the shutdown. Instead Trump has pointed the laser at something insignificant and there you go chasing the little red light.
But let’s say you’re right O mighty Carnac, and the ballroom doesn’t get built. I can just see the midterms. Democrat senators and reps going to the electorate: Ok, we didn’t stop any of the other Trump initiatives but that ballroom, we stopped it. Vote for us we stopped the ballroom (or fall back position, we limited it to 500 seats instead of 900 seats). Vote for us the No Ballroom Party - the No Balls Party. That’s a seller. Keep on, keeping on.
Trump is siting StarGate to connect Wormholes through White House Nexus
Shs that where they hide the stargate dialer
I"m all in favor of mocking men, women, Gays, straights, Christians, Jews, Immigrants, blacks, whites and the native born. Quit acting like we have "Protected classes". Don't push your weird preferences on everyone else.
Who will pay for the cost overruns?
Anyone else miss Scott Walker?
"AI : The Ark of the Covenant was a… gold-plated wooden chest that held the Epstein files."
LOL
I'm glad to see Trump getting behind the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.
Greta Thunberg loved the idea of an arc to save the animals. Until they told her it was Trumps idea.
“I"m all in favor of mocking men, women, Gays, straights, Christians, Jews, Immigrants, blacks, whites and the native born. Quit acting like we have "Protected classes". Don't push your weird preferences on everyone else.”
Note the absence of a certain fundamentalist religion…
Oddly, this week's Torah portion (Genesis chapters 6-12) has both Noah's Ark and Nimrod's Tower of Babel. Make of that what you will. CC, JSM
$300 million? WTF? If it were 1/4-mile on a side, that would be $5,808 per square foot.
Aggie (it pains me as a Horn to say) nails it. The Arc of History bends slowly, as the Lightbringer says, but sometimes it gets sundered, and a new arc bends.... differently.
Howard writes, "Albert Speer designed a massive Triumphal Arch as a key feature of the planned Welthauptstadt Germania for Berlin."
There is but a single vestige of that vile project standing, the Schwerbelastungskörper (heavy load-exerting body), a gigantic engineering instrument designed to measure the load-bearing capacity of Berlin's sandy alluvial soil. Speer calculated that if the Schwerbelastungkörper, primarily a cylinder of steel and concrete weighing nearly 13,000 metric tons, settled less than 6 centimeters, then foundational considerations would pose no obstacle to the planned Nazi arch. By 1948, the mass had subsided to more than 3 times that depth, a sinking rivaled only by Inga's moral standards since 2016.
"Speer calculated that if the Schwerbelastungkörper, primarily a cylinder of steel and concrete weighing nearly 13,000 metric tons ..."
Again, I have to call "Bullshit!". Governments waste money, but seldom on the scale imagined here.
jim5301 - why are you obsessed with Trump's dick?
Jim numbers @ 2:43
There is a rule of thumb when you're expanding your business. Especially manufacturing. If you're at 6500 square feet now. Don't expand to 8500. Double what you have now. IOWs 13000 square feet. You will always use it.
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