00:00A judge just ordered you to stop construction at the ballroom, or are you planning to stop it?
00:04Well, we'll appeal to that, but it's not, I don't know, it's basically, I mean, I wrote a part of
00:11his opinion,
00:13but basically he's saying I need congressional approval, and he's so wrong.
00:19This is being financed privately, it's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies,
00:26very rich people, so that for 150 years they've won in a ballroom here.
00:32We're going to have the finest ballroom, I believe, anywhere in the world.
00:35And he said we need congressional approval.
00:38Well, they don't get congressional approval from the White House.
00:40When they do things, they don't, especially when you don't, we didn't ask for any tax money.
00:44We have no tax, this is taxpayer free, we have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.
00:52And I see right here, I just wrote it out, he said we need congressional approval.
00:55Well, we've built many things at the White House over the years.
00:59They don't get congressional approval when they build in the White House, it's totally separate.
01:04And especially when it's a donation, I mean, the ballroom is a donation.
01:08It's gotten great reviews, people love it, and presidents for 150 years have wanted this ballroom to be built.
01:14Because when we have President Xi or other presidents or prime ministers coming,
01:18we don't have a big room, we have the East Room, which is very small.
01:22And he said we need congressional approval.
01:26He also said, but this is positive for us, I'm allowed, meaning we are allowed to continue building as necessary
01:35to, let's see,
01:39what is that, to cover the safety and security of the White House and its ground.
01:47So it says here very carefully, the safety and security have to be protected of the White House grounds.
01:53Well, that's what we're doing because everything's bulletproof glass, etc., etc., including the ballroom.
02:00And then it goes construction and all of the things necessary.
02:05It says personal safety of the president and his staff are a part of that.
02:10So it talks about that we're allowed to continue building.
02:14In other words, he put an order on, and even that, he gave 14 days.
02:17We don't need it because that's what we're doing.
02:19He's allowed to continue building as necessary.
02:23And when it talks about the safety and security of the White House and its grounds,
02:30so just so you know, I wrote some of the thing down.
02:33We have a drone-proof roof, and it talks about the president and his staff.
02:38Well, we don't have a lot of bulletproof glass.
02:41The White House was built a long time ago.
02:43This has the highest level of, in fact, they call this graph, this grass, the glass,
02:53it's bulletproof and it's ballistic-proof.
02:57It's very thick.
02:59It's like that.
03:00And it's going 45 feet high, and every window is covered, and every door is covered.
03:06The roof is drone-proof.
03:08We have secure air-handling systems.
03:10You know, bad things happen in the air if you have bad people.
03:14We have biodefense all over.
03:17We have secure telecommunications and communications all over.
03:25We have bomb shelters that we're building.
03:30We have a hospital and very major medical facilities that we're building.
03:37We have all of these things.
03:39So that's called, I'm allowed to continue building as necessary.
03:43So think of that, for the safety of the president.
03:47So we have all these things.
03:49So on that, we're okay, where he's totally wrong, and he made a statement, that's fine.
03:56But I'll give you an example.
03:59You have, right here, $300 million to $400 million, depending on finishes.
04:04If I use very expensive marble, if I use very expensive wall coatings, if I could bring it up to
04:12$400 million.
04:13Otherwise, we're right now ahead of schedule, we're under budget.
04:16But depending on finishes, from $300 to $400 million are being given by great people, people that you all know.
04:25Rich people, rich companies, big companies.
04:28They wanted to see this bill because every president, literally, for 150 years has needed a space like this.
04:35Many of you have gone to the tent when we have a president of a big country or somebody being
04:40honored of great distinction.
04:43And they sit in a tent, and if it rains, you get soaked, because the grass gets wet here very
04:47fast.
04:48It's a very wet area.
04:51They used to call it a wetland, but I guess they don't do that for the White House.
04:54But it's essentially a wetland.
04:55And when it rains, you're in trouble.
04:57The water can go up to three to four inches over their shoes.
05:00It's not a good feeling for Prince, who was Prince Charles, who will be here next couple of weeks.
05:09It's King Charles, who's a great guy.
05:11We don't want him to sit in a pool of water.
05:15And they've been wanting this for 100, think of it, 150 years.
05:18And we're building it, and it's covered perfectly.
05:21What's not covered perfectly is the fact that the judge said we need congressional approval.
05:27Many things have been built in the White House.
05:29They haven't gotten congressional approval, especially when the money is being not put up by the taxpayer.
05:34The taxpayer's not putting up a dime.
05:37This building was necessary for many years by the fact that I've built many ballrooms, and I've built many things,
05:43and I know how to build.
05:44I'm not building the Federal Reserve, where the guy's spending $4 billion for a tiny little building.
05:48$4 billion for the Federal Reserve building.
05:53And that contractor is going to be one of the richest men anywhere in the world after he finishes the
05:58Federal Reserve.
05:58The man is totally incompetent.
06:01Jerome, too late, Powell.
06:03He's totally incompetent.
06:05And he's got to get out of office pretty fast.
06:07He's doing a bad job.
06:08But he's also done a bad job in shepherding the construction of that building.
06:12You know, they ripped down a part of that building, and it was a niceâthey say it's one of the
06:16nicest buildings in Washington.
06:17They ripped it down, so we feelâand we don't feel, we knowâthat congressional approval is not necessary to put up
06:27a ballroom.
06:28And many things have been built on the site.
06:30They've never gotten congressional approval, and especially when the money is all put up.
06:36This is all donations by people that love our country, that love the White House, and that feel it was
06:41very necessary.
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