According to Trump, the new ballroom is a front for a building that descends six stories underground. Trump revealed that the ballroom will run about six stories deep (60 to 100 feet) and will be made of “impenetrable” steel and four-inch-thick glass. (To Trump, all steel is impenetrable, just like Iran’s defense systems have been “obliterated”, but they still are operating.)

According to Fox News, Trump also said, “9,000 pounds of concrete is being used.”  This has to be a mistake. It would be more accurate to say that 9,000 tons of concrete are being used on a building that goes six stories deep. 

More importantly, Trump also said his ballroom would include a military hospital, research facilities, various meeting rooms, and security infrastructure tied to drone and missile defense.

Trump must plan on having some wild parties if he needs a hospital and research facilities built alongside the ballroom.  Trump did not detail what type of research would be conducted underground, but it should titillate science fiction fans.

This is Definitely Not Just a Ballroom

The docile media keeps referring to this as a “ballroom,” but it is more of a fortified bunker that will be used when Trump refuses to leave office, or in the event he decides to stage a coup if a Democrat is elected president in November 2028.

That’s why he needs a hospital and defensive protection against any police or army that decides to enforce the Constitution and prevent another attempted Trump coup.

The brazen use of taxpayer money to build the ballroom should also be added to Trump’s other crimes, including the $1 billion slush fund to pay his MAGA Brown Shirts, who will now be paid to come to his assistance.  This $1 billion slush fund will pay for Trump‘s mercenaries.

This is what will unfold during the next four years. The good news for Trump is that the new ballroom should be ready just in time for his next insurrection.

What Are the Dems Doing?

Meanwhile, what will the Democrats be doing until the next presidential election?

Based on past events. Dem leaders Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Corey Booker will be busy writing protest letters to Trump.  These letters will not do any good, but they will send them anyway.  The Democratic leaders will also focus their attacks on the progressive Democrats, as opposed to the MAGA Republicans. 

If the Dems went into high gear, they could hold hearings on Trumps’ role in the Epstein sex ring, Trump’s violations of the Hatch Act, conflicts of interest in the Trump family, their use of diplomatic cover to solicit personal business, the role of Russia in the last election, releasing the Jack Smith report on Russian collusion, and investigating whether Trump sold secret to foreign nations.  That will be good, good for starters.

But that will not happen.  The damage Trump will do to the nation in the next three years will take a few generations to undo.  In the interim, Trump and his gang will leave office as billionaires many times over, and they will get away with the biggest crimes in American history.  Welcome to corporate America.

Protest the Upcoming 250th Celebration of the USA

Non-MAGA Americans should also hold counter-protests to the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA in 1776.  The USA of 2026 is quickly moving into a fascist state run by a mental case and his supporters.

The ballroom, the unprecedented crimes and self-dealing, and gerrymandering all point to the takeover of the governments at the state and federal levels by wealthy oligarchs and Christian nationalists.

This is the opposite of what happened in 1776 when the USA was launched as a democratic society.  That did not last.  It was derailed by Reconstruction after 1865 and into the 1960s when segregation was overturned by law.  But the spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in the MAGA movement.

Non-MAGA Americans should hold counter-celebrations to the upcoming July 4th celebrations of the 250th anniversary.  The USA of 2026 is not the country that was founded in 1776.  The future of the nation is very bleak.  Trump’s mental illness, the rise of AI, the repeal of the Civil Rights Acts, voter suppression, the fundamental change in the US economy that will reduce purchasing power, and raise interest rates on mortgages and car loans will impoverish millions.

DOn’t fall for the media and the right-wingers who want to celebrate America on July 4th as “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.”  That is nostalgia.

Look at what is happening today.

America faces a bleak future with the rise of MAGA, the Tea Party, the right-wing nationalists, and the criminals whom Trump has brought into his regime.

America in 2026 is a different nation today, and it is moving in the wrong direction.