You can bet that as the government shutdown continues, President Donald Trump is laser-focused on maintaining mission-critical operations. And what does Trump consider mission-critical? Continuing construction on his big, garish, stupid new ballroom.

Americans were no doubt on tenterhooks, wishing and hoping that Trump would be able to keep building the 90,000-square-foot monstrosity that will dwarf the White House, make everything look as tacky as Mar-a-Lago, and, of course, be named after Trump.

According to the White House, it’s totally fine that construction will continue despite the government shutdown because the funds aren’t tied to 2026 appropriations, but are instead from private donors.

Yeah, that doesn’t really make it any better. The fact that YouTube just bribed Trump with

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