As Democrats Spiral Crazily Over the East Wing Renovation, Noted Chinese Spywhore Asset Eric Swallowell Declares That All Democrat Candidates Must Vow to Raze the (Finished) Ballroom to the Ground

The Democrats keep discovering new issues to obsess over and alienate normie voters with.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., was mocked for demanding that any 2028 Democratic presidential candidate pledge to demolish President Donald Trump's ballroom.

"Don't even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE," Swalwell wrote on X on Saturday.

Swalwell followed up with another post to X that read, "Or, as @RubenGallego proposes, rename it the Barack Obama Ballroom. But a Trump monument to corruption will not stand."

The Democratic lawmaker was called out by conservatives and lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who wrote, "these people are deranged."

"I thought you guys were against demolishing anything at the White House," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote.

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The ballroom's construction set off a firestorm of criticism among Democrats, as well as liberal media commentators.

"Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom," Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted to X.

But conservatives took aim at Swalwell's demands.

"Yes, Democrats should run on Trump's ballroom," The Washington Free Beacon's Chuck Ross said.

Conservative commentator AG Hamilton called out Swalwell for "promising to spend taxpayer time and money" to destroy the ballroom.

He quipped that it was "certainly one way to signal priorities for Democrats."

"The Vince Show" host Vince Coglianese pointed to the Democrats' initial criticism of the demolition at the White House.

"I was reliably told that demolishing side buildings = 'destroying the White House,'" he wrote. "Now it's part of the platform!"

Glenn Reynolds notes that even though the Democrats' florid insanity is driving down their poll numbers to the basement, they just can't stop.

Insane people cannot just stop being insane. Obsessives gonna obsess, neurotics gonna neuro.

President Donald Trump has done it again -- sent the left and the media (but I repeat myself) down a rabbit hole of absurdity.

"It's like the media is a cat and Trump has the world's biggest laser pointer," Margo Cleveland posted on X, "with it currently aimed at the new ballroom."

That's right: While Trump tours Asia, dancing, making trade deals and apparently having a blast, he's got his opponents back in the Swamp obsessing over . . . a home renovation project.

Using donated funds, not taxpayer money, Trump is rebuilding the White House's shabby East Wing -- originally added to cover up construction of a bomb shelter during World War II -- to create a large and modern space that meets the needs of today's presidency.

Naturally, this has the usual gang of idiots fuming.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Saturday lectured his fellow Democrats not to even imagine running for the presidential nomination unless they "pledge to take a wrecking ball" to Trump's renovation.

(Cleveland commented: "The funniest thing about this is not that Swalwell posted it, but that he thought it was so brilliant that he reposted it.")

Talk show host Joe Walsh, who once cosplayed as a Republican, took up Swalwell's demand: "I'll say it every day for the next 3yrs," he wrote, "any Democrat running for president in 2028 MUST pledge to tear down Trump's ballroom. It matters."

Does it? Does it really?

It's hilarious to see such reactions from Democrats like these, along with Joe Scarbrough, Stephanie Ruhle and other Very Serious People, to a project that enriches our national infrastructure and won't cost taxpayers a dime.

Those who a couple of years ago were toppling monuments to America's founders and denouncing America itself as a slave state are now posing as defenders of our deep history and heritage.

Because nothing says "deep history and heritage" like a structure built in 1942 to hide a bomb shelter.

Trump's new White House annex will contain a lot more space, including a huge ballroom with a drone-proof metal roof and other security enhancements.

Up to now, big state dinners have been held in tents on the White House lawn, with portable space heaters, awkward temporary restrooms -- and zero overhead protection against security threats like drones, which are becoming a bigger and bigger danger.

The new building will make formal receptions and other big events safer and more comfortable.

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But most of the leftists have to pretend.

If Trump is for it, a large segment of this country just has to be against it, and in the most overwrought, over-moralizing way.

They can't help themselves.

Thus when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted a Harvard study suggesting a link between consuming Tylenol in pregnancy and autism in children, pregnant Democratic women started posting TikTok videos of themselves gobbling the tablets: That'll show Trump!

Some reportedly wound up in the emergency room, but resisting Trump was more important.

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As a female person of gender, I stand in solidarity with my fellow Subsidized Citizens.

posted by Ace at 05:10 PM

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