I'm not saying that they're not building a data center there, but her evidence seems to be that it's far more expensive than the most expensive federal buildings and that the administration is lying and saying that the ball room is larger than it actually is.

Two things that describe exactly what we've seen Trump do in the past. Trump may overspend on decoration because he has to make everything gold, or because he's pocketing the extra money. Trump's felony convictions were related to his lying about the square footage of his properties, in signed contracts, that they were bigger than they actually were.

I’m not impressed with the video. There’s nothing substantive or sourced, no expertise, other than a Facebook post she didn’t even link.

…I mean, it’s plausible, and I’m all for ballroom conspiracies.

But I guess this is just a (now) old person shaking their fist to say this isn’t real journalism, and it’s sad millions of people treat it as such.

For anyone who didn't want to or can't watch the video, she posits the administration is using private donor money to build a massive data center under the Whitehouse, with the surface level ball room being a cover story for this. She argued this data center might be used to centralize and collate huge amounts of data outside of Congressional oversight, so the executive branch can use it for monitoring or profiteering or some other purpose.

It's a throne room. Nothing more. Selected subjects may crawl to the stairs and lick the kings feet.

Seems much more likely to me that it's expensive because it's a grift. The funds raised have no relation to the cost of the work, and represent lobbying efforts by a wide range of big business interests. Plus Trump probably thinks that being expensive makes it better.

Trump plans to upload himself 😱