Why The Press and The TDS Crowd Need to Shut the Hell Up"
The latest public TDS-Gasm is over the White House Renovations...
Trump Builds a Ballroom, Media Builds a Meltdown: A Story in Screeching Headlines and Historic Amnesia
Trump could walk across a lake and the media would write: “Trump Can’t Swim.” You laugh, but tell me that isn’t the vibe. This week’s rage-fueled episode of Let’s Pretend This Is News comes courtesy of... a construction project.
That’s right. Trump is updating the East Wing. With private money. No taxpayer funds. Not a penny from you, me, or Grandma’s Social Security check. But you’d think he bulldozed Mount Rushmore and replaced it with a gold-plated tanning salon.
And here come the pundits, the usual choir of keyboard warriors, Twitter martyrs, and camera-friendly nitwits clutching their pearls like he just took a wrecking ball to the Constitution. “It’s symbolic,” they cry. “It’s destroying our democracy,” they shriek. One senator literally said that. Because bricks.
Forget the fact that presidents have been modifying the White House since before indoor plumbing. Here’s what they’re pretending didn’t happen:
Truman literally gutted the building and rebuilt it from the inside out. Left nothing but the walls. Used taxpayer money.
FDR added a secret underground bunker and built the East Wing to cover it up.
Teddy Roosevelt slapped on two new wings, redid the entire interior, and called up McKim, Mead & White like he was fixing up a Hamptons estate.
Bush spent $8.5 million to renovate the press room with your money.
Ford installed a pool because Nixon paved over the old one.
Where was the outrage then? Where were the MSNBC tears? Where were the Twitter warriors in their matching emotional support cardigans?
Now Trump adds a ballroom, with private funds and suddenly it’s the fall of Rome.
They’re not mad about the money. They’re not mad about the construction.
He could walk on water and they’d accuse him of violating aquatic ecosystems.
He could cure cancer and CNN would run a segment titled, “Trump Puts Thousands of Oncologists Out of Work.”
And then Joy Reid would ask if the cure disproportionately impacted marginalized tumor communities.
The next morning, the New York Times would publish a 3,000-word thinkpiece about how the move was “authoritarian in tone” and possibly linked to Russia.
It’s not journalism anymore. It’s pantomime rage theater. It’s the same tired storyline: Orange Man does thing. Thing must be evil. Audience, commence screaming.
Meanwhile:
Our schools are a joke.
Our borders are Swiss cheese.
Our economy looks like it got hit by a truck full of TikTok influencers.
And the only time the media gets truly animated is when Trump moves furniture.
So here’s your reminder, in case you needed it: The press isn’t holding anyone accountable. They’re chasing dopamine hits and Twitter clout. They’re not reporting. They’re reacting. Loudly. Predictably. And usually without facts.
The East Wing is being rebuilt. Just like it was in 1942. Just like it was in 1902. Just like it’s been for the last 200 damn years.