As Americans continue to drown under the catastrophic effects of Donald Trump's never-ending war of choice with Iran, he's giving a room full of billionaires a tour of his White House "construction site," "as a special treat."
Even though his own White House aides were going "mad" over his tone-deaf state dinner, the president hosted the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Bret Baier, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Trump quite literally rolled out the red carpet on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews for Xi when he arrived on Wednesday for his first state visit to Washington in more than a decade.
For the most part, Donald tried really hard to stick pretty tightly to his script during his big speech to his dinner guests. But around five minutes in, he finally cracked and turned his attention to his godforsaken ballroom.
He quite literally told the room that he was going off script: "And if I could go off script just for a second, I just wanna say — I had to do it. I had to do it!"
He took a brief pause to allow the Mandarin translator to catch up before declaring to the crowd:
As a special treat, in honor of President Xi and Madam Peng [Liyuan], I’d like to invite everyone in the room to visit through that beautiful curtain in the back. The door’s all lit up, and it looks beautiful. It’s one year away from completion — the new ballroom that you’ve heard about — and you will see something that I think you will really love.
[Pause for translator]
In honor of you, you’ll be the first people to step foot on that, and we’ll do that maybe after we’re finished with the entertainment tonight. If anybody wants to walk into a construction site that’s nice and clean and sparkly, it’s our honor to have you do so, but this is in honor of President Xi and Madam Peng.
"If anybody wants to walk into a construction site ... "-- Trump's big surprise at the state dinner with Xi is inviting everybody in the room to the ballroom construction site pic.twitter.com/jMUaRBpgKu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2026
As gas prices skyrocket to astronomical heights, diesel costs break records, and Americans are left to decide whether their paycheck is going to rent or food because there is always too much month left at the end of the money now, our president is giving billionaires tours of his nearly billion-dollar White House destruction pet project, because what better way to say, "Let them eat cake"?
