Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump's $400 Million White House Ballroom Pitch as Iran Deadline Looms
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Updated · Mashable · May 20
Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump's $400 Million White House Ballroom Pitch as Iran Deadline Looms
4 articles · Updated · Mashable · May 20
Jimmy Kimmel used his monologue to hammer Donald Trump’s White House ballroom presentation, zeroing in on footage of the president touting the $400 million project at a noisy construction site.
Trump’s own remarks fueled the jokes: he called it “a very complex building,” said “the roof also goes down into the basement,” and struggled as poster boards blew away in the wind.
Kimmel framed the scene against Trump’s Iran deadline, joking that foreign leaders were watching him unveil a new dance floor where he would cha-cha to “YMCA.”
The segment extends Kimmel’s broader ridicule of the ballroom plan, which earlier reports said Trump had described alongside a six-story underground bunker and other fortified facilities.
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