How can you justify a new gold plated ballroom in the WH after cutting cancer research funding and SNAP?

I’ll try to explain it the way Trump would explain it to a starving kid with cancer.

Look America spends a Kazillion dollars a day taking care of kids like you – then because you are weak you die anyway. Do you know what a Kazillion dollars is? Of coarse you don’t because you are too busy complaining about yourself. America needs a place were strong wealthy American’s can get a break from catering to weak people like you.

Cheers!

In reality there is no justification.

However, in trump's mind....

he worships gold (note his appearance).  
he thinks what he sees on/in TV/movies is reality and they show that those in power should live in palaces made out of gold.
he sees himself as "king of the world", and as such he should be surrounded by gold.
he believes that the peasants should provide for his luxurious lifestyle.  So he takes "the bread" from their mouths  (bread being food, medical care) and raises taxes (tariffs, fines) to pay for his luxury.



he doesn't care about the people (peasants), only himself.  To him, the poor and needy (children, sick, elderly) are irritants that stand in the way of his "rule".  Caring for them wastes precious resources that could be belter used to make himself look better.

There is no justification any more than he can justify the amount of money required to retrofit the plane given to him by Qatar.  Nor is there any justificaton for paving over the Rose Garden.

Edited for typo This post was edited by Spunky at August 11, 2025 2:41 PM MDT

Apples and oranges.   One is paid with tax money and the other is not at all. 

SNAP is having the requirements placed back in it, less strict than Bill Clinton had.  Nothing wrong with requiring citizenship and work (if work aged and able)...