NYT: “Trump championed the U.S. steel industry, promising to strengthen it and impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals… Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump’s $400 million ballroom project.” www.livemint.com/news/world/israelgaza-war-who-was-muhammad-washah-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-in-idf-strikes-that-targeted-his-vehicle-11775724542056.html

April 09, 2026 - 12:26 UTC

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"pleased to meet you; won't you guess my name..."
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lolz, every #MAGAtard that voted for this 💩 got played!
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A middle finger to Americans while he preps to build the above ground bungler to protect his underground bunker. Do the derps who unconditionally support him in Congress really believe there is room for them in the bunker too? 🤔
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The media has utterly failed us. The story is not that he secured foreign steel, or that it was donated. The story is what favor the billionaire steel magnate secured in exchange for the steel.
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The money saved on the donated steel, for this ridiculous vanity project, will go straight into Trump's pocket
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“Donated,” yet! Wow!
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Girded with grift.
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@thetnholler.bsky.social I've got an issue for you... @savethechildren.org burried their own research out of fear for the Israeli. The unpunished frequent torture of children in israeli prisons. Here is the report:
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-24991569/Child_Detention_Policy_Brief[68].pdf
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Promises made promises broken. If anyone still believes anything this creature says it’s on them.
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How much of it from Russia …🤔
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‘Merica First, right?
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He's been wanting to build that ballroom way back when Obama was president. Obama says in his memoirs that he told him no.
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You mean the US actually *needs* foreign products?
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This gif is being used a lot today 😁
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What? More hypocrisy?

That steel probably came from a plant in Canada and that really pisses me off.
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Are those Pittsburgh steel workers feeling silly yet?
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So he is under-cutting domestic producers with cheap imported inferior goods? That kind of unfair trading practice is the only time tariffs are a good thing & the main reason we started using them. He is just so ignorant and corrupt.
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@kaitlancollins.bsky.social seems like an easy question to Trump here....
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Surprised? By now every single grownup in the U.S. should realize that Trump will do whatever it takes (e.g., secretly accept donated foreign steel for a huge ballroom only he wants) so he can brag about how very clever he is and the magnificence “like nobody’s ever seen before” of what “he” built.
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Wait, it’s up to $400,000,000.00 now?
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It should officially be known as:

That Fucking Ballroom.

Everything about Republicans summarized perfectly in 3 words.
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I hope it's never used as a ballroom. It should be the Hall of Shame
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It’s made from a new type of steel, they call listening steel
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so we're having foreign investment in building the bunker...I mean ballroom...that's really a bunker...
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That project we put in hold. It’s bad enough he tore down the entire east wing where the First Ladies had their offices, but now he is slapping his own people by acquiring off shore steel. This man hates Americans, hates woman and brown, & poor people specifically
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Hey @thetnholler.bsky.social — you posted the wrong link for this article.
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Wasn't the whole point of tariffs to promote American industry.
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Um, security risk.
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Is our leadership even tracking this stuff? It’s clear they are doing little to stop it.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Why is ArcelorMittal, the world's second-largest steel maker, "donating" $400 million worth of steel to trump? And, why is trump planning to use steel not made in the US?
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This has corruption written all over it. Congress needs to start asking some questions...LOL...what am I thinking. Congress is useless.
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Just build a new white house when he is done. Leave the thing as a museum and reminder but it's past time to care about saving the white house now
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So....trump lied?
Say it isn't so 🙄
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Steel plants in the US, too. In Alabama.
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Donated foreign steel is otherwise known as a greased palm bribe
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Just 1 more reason to tear it down! Help us do just that and repurpose the materials of course. Go to eastwingrestoration.org
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We are going to g to have to tear down anything he “builds” to get rid of all the spyware.

Sighs.
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Not if we're annexed into the Soviet Union of the Americas.
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The world is burning—and Trump is throwing a ball...
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And no tariffs?
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What a surprise!
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So he just keeps the lies going, or can he not remember his own words? Both are a good reason to remove him from office!
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Trump's Whitehouse for sale..who knew??
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Security Risk, idiot.
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#USW
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Mittal bought Inland steel years ago and ran it into the ground. Mittal is not a steel company but a business venture. Crooked enough that he tried to steal pension funds, and ran equipment into breakdown modes. Mittal is not good for the U.S. or the steel industry.
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America First 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😞😞😞😞😞
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I'm still boggled by using foreign steel for supposedly one of the most secure places on earth. I'm old enough to remember the 'building' of the new US Embassy in the Soviet Union that was unusable due to the number of listening devices embedded in everything, including the steel.
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Let's just get it done and have a housewarming for putie!
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My friend, they don’t need listening devices anymore. They’re already in the house.
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Ballroom?

Will it have a throne?
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"Art of the Steal"
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It is HILARIOUS that the grift/lies keep happening over and over and over and over and over and there are STILL American voters that would support and vote for Trump in an illegal third term. An absolute clown car of a “first” world nation.
🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡
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🤣🤣🤣wait until they lift the tariffs on imported steel....
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Nobody gives Trump The Failed anything without wanting something in return.
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the point: and trump rewarded that foreign company with reduced tariffs...which makes them more competitive within this country, hurting the U.S. steel industry
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IF that monstrosity is ever built it will be coming down by we the people or by their shoddy cheap construction.
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The nice part of private donations is that we won't be destroying taxpayer dollars when we tear it down.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We could get low-cost housing out of it
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The one he said was a bunker? Hmm…
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Fixed it for ya’
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Maga: America first!
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Don't listen to what they say, follow what they do. He lies more than he breathes. This administration has been for sale to the highest bidder since that escalator ride in 2015, sorry, descent into hell.
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Donating? Are they crazy. Why donating, that man has enough already.
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I work in the steel pipe industry and this pisses me off as much as the rest of it. You have no idea how chaotic it is when he does tariffs and the big push for no China material. That specific man has directly complicated my life several times over. He needs to eat more cheeseburgers today
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I work in the concrete pipe industry, and we have to use only steel soured and produced in the USA.
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Thanks we are grateful to trump that he buys our steel and not American !! Thank you 🤦‍♂️
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The ballroom is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: Provide Trump and his cronies a means of bribery and money laundering.
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Are they gonna want the steel back when this stupid ballroom is torn down?
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No surprise and anyone who believed him is stupid. His MAGA hats are made in China.

[me clapping my hands in front of maga faces] WAKE UP!!!!!
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The - hey I like your maga hat, where was it made ? Question to magats is always fun
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So US Steel wasn’t an option?
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America not first.
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Because of course. 'Merica First, though.
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There is no such thing as a donation in trump world. Bribes and theft....
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Hopefully, it will collapse!
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If Arcelor receives any special treatment or consideration this "donation" can clearly be considered a bribe.

Trump always has a corrupt angle.
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Wow. He's full of shit. Who knew?
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Who knew?
The 75 million people who voted for Harris
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The steel is donated by a European company that got a huge tariff break in exchange. They can now continue to outbid US steel companies from their plant in Canada. So really… American steel companies are paying for that donated steel. America fifth, or sixth. F it. Whoever bribes Trump first.
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tЯ☭mp Drumpf sold U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel for $14.9 BILLION
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ETTD
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And still, nobody in power bats an eye or does anything to stop him. Way to go!!
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TBF to Trump, I'm sure he gave the American steel industry the right of first refusal to bribe him.
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CORRUPTION
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WE are the only ones suffering financially. The Family Con $Trump has always played by their own rules. This “presidency” has enriched them beyond their wildest dreams.
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Corruption in plain sight
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The rape of America! He rapes children and everything he touches! This vile creature needs to be stopped immediately!
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World petition to arrest Trump and Netanyahu and try them for war crimes. Sign below:

1. Michael Griffin
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Like sure it was donated. What did he give them in return?
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Trump will tell us he is saving the US taxpayer money building his vanity project by doing corruption, and half the population will nod and say, that’s the way it is i guess.
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Of course they have... 🙄
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Common when will these Americans understand nothing that comes out of this admins mouth about promises is truth! Destroying democracy is the truth!
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We must ask WHY because a Quid Pro Quo is standard operating procedure with this vipurative demented regime.
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Funny how this administration is willing to use taxpayer money to massively overpay for warehouses to use as detention centers, but not to use their own money to overpay our own steelworkers.
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"Donated" = bribed

No one donates "tens of millions of dollars worth" of anything
without the expectation of something in return.
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Which they got when tRuMP gave them a tariff exception!!!
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Looking at this picture, it occurred to me that in a few years this could be a prison! Open to the public for viewing of justice in action. Two sides for men and women as we will have both. I want to make sure they're not being treated too nicely in lock-up. Gotta do something useful with this mess.
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...and why are we still calling it a ballroom when it's actually all about building a new bunker?

He's making his plan to dig in and stay.

And because of the malignant-narcissism-sadism, it's reasonable to conclude he's gonna try to send us all on before he goes. Hence the bunker.

It's demented.
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