If ever there was a case study in political self-parody, the Democratic National Committee just delivered it. Their latest meltdown? President Donald Trump is adding a ballroom to the White House — and, crucially, it’s not costing taxpayers a dime. That’s right. A privately funded renovation project — something you’d think would be a welcome break from bloated government spending — has somehow sparked outrage from the party of sustainability, stimulus checks, and trillion-dollar packages.
The DNC is so mad that President Trump is building a new ballroom at the White House, they posted a sad Instagram video last night.
Too bad their intern put in a photo of the East Wing in Buckingham Palace, not the White House.
Cry more libs. pic.twitter.com/UKYpGGckLl
— GOP (@GOP) October 23, 2025
The situation took a turn from dramatic to downright absurd during an MSNBC segment on Thursday, where a guest declared with a straight face that White House renovations are the sort of thing that started the American Revolutionary War. Yes, really. We’ve officially reached the point where upgrading a room — paid for with private funds — is being treated as a royalist power grab. Somewhere, George Washington is shaking his head.
Oh that’s great. I love unsupervised interns.
Didn’t anyone over there take a gap year in Europe?
Or maybe a middle school trip to DC?
Come on…
— Chris Weaver (@WeaverSpeaks) October 23, 2025
But wait, it gets better. The DNC, clearly eager to stoke online outrage, posted a “bombshell” Instagram video allegedly exposing the Trump ballroom project. Only, there was just one small problem: the image wasn’t of the White House at all. It was the East Wing of Buckingham Palace. Across the Atlantic. In the United Kingdom. Different building. Different continent. A gaffe so egregious it would make a freshman intern blush — assuming the intern is old enough to remember The West Wing, which, judging by the post, they’re not.
So either their interns are idiots…which would be par for the course….Or they start them lying about everything early in their careers…which would also be par for the course.
— Full Grown Chicken (@GavinDrewLicht1) October 23, 2025
And the irony doesn’t stop there. Just months ago, these same corners of the left were championing “No Kings” protests and lamenting authoritarian aesthetics. Now? They’re upset that President Trump isn’t behaving like an emperor — he’s footing the bill for a ballroom, not levying taxes or launching wars. But that nuance is lost in the social media spin cycle, where optics matter more than facts, and geography is apparently optional.
Incredible that the Democrats *still* haven’t deleted their post showing Buckingham Palace as the East Wing. pic.twitter.com/xwxp0cdRpc
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) October 23, 2025
Even more laughable are the feverish theories bubbling up online. Liberal activist account MeidasTouch is pushing the narrative that Trump modeled the ballroom after the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Because, of course, every time Trump builds something, the Kremlin must be involved. Never mind that the White House has hosted ballrooms, state rooms, and elegant receptions for centuries — this must be a secret nod to the czars.
Here’s the real story: a president is privately funding a renovation to host official state events, with zero cost to taxpayers, and his political opponents are so blinded by rage that they can’t tell the White House from a British palace. Or a Russian one, depending on the conspiracy theory of the hour.
