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The security claim that Trump makes to justify the need for the "ballroom" is, as is everything Trump, complete bunk.
Did you know that there already IS a bunker on the Whitehouse grounds that was completed during the Biden administration in 2012? This was done after 9/11 jolted America out of its complacency. It's on the North Lawn. For reference, Trump's new helipad is on the South Lawn.
The Obama bunker is quite impressive as is. There is no need for yet another one, considering that the old East Wing also has a bunker under it created long ago. I presume it is this older bunker that the ballroom project is "upgrading".
Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials sayThe White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
August 23, 2026 at 6:55 p.m.
By Noah Robertson and Dan Diamond
President Donald Trump has claimed that the White House needs a massive new ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.
More than a decade ago, federal officials built a highly protected bunker, embedded deep underground, that can shelter the president and his top aides in a national security emergency, according to three former officials.
The facility, which was secretly completed during the Obama administration, can house dozens of people for up to multiple weeks, two former officials said. It’s buried more than 60 feet underneath the White House complex and built to withstand a nuclear blast, two of the officials said, ensuring the president and his team have a secure command center to run the country in times of extreme duress.
The bunker’s existence, the former officials said, undercuts the Trump administration’s emerging legal argument in the ongoing lawsuit over the $600 million ballroom complex’s construction: that the facility must be completed due to its significance for U.S. national security.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu...Original article:
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