A D.C. court’s decision on the White House ballroom found the president sounding off on the Democrat-appointed judges for an alleged threat “at the highest level.”
Since the ballroom was first announced, President Donald Trump has faced the typical concerted opposition of leftist politicians, corporate media and lawfare-wielding comrades. Friday, a federal appeals court ruling temporarily halting the East Wing project found the commander-in-chief reminding what was at stake was more than just a ballroom as he accused the judicial activists of posing a “National Security Threat.”
Taking to Truth Social, Trump reminded that Judges Patricia Millett and Bradley Garcia were appointed by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, respectively, and that, in his view, the project was well within his rights as granted by the American people.
“Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that ‘Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House,'” began the president Friday evening.
“We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so,” he went on. “This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
As had been reported, Millett and Garcia sided 2-1 against the Trump-appointed Judge Neomi Rao regarding the appeal of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s March order halting non-security-related work on the East Wing.
The majority argued, “Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” and further stated that the order wasn’t ultimately a conclusion on the fate of the ballroom, but rather made clear that construction should not continue, “during the district court’s expeditious litigation without securing Congress’s authorization, as the Constitution and laws require.”
While the evening post put focus on the judges’ position, the president acted as a “temporary tenant,” a post from earlier in the day spoke to the scope of what was being blocked from the bench beyond a mere ballroom.
Trump wrote, “The single, integrated project includes Bomb Shelters, State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Facilities, Structures and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass.”
The president also cited dissenting Judge Neomi Rao, who argued in part that her colleagues affirmed “judicial overreach” following the district court’s “blatant abuse of discretion,” which she contended, “elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government’s security interests in the ballroom and the security risks of leaving an open construction site at the President’s home and office…”
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 7, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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