🤩“Trump’s Fixation” Edition

Donald Trump doesn’t just want a ballroom. He needs a ballroom, in the way a medieval king needs a bigger throne room to feel safe from invading peasants.

Every event, crisis, or stray headline now somehow circles back to the same conclusion: if only there were a 90,000-square-foot, gold-trimmed, lawsuit-defying mega-ballroom on the White House lawn, none of this would be happening. Security breach? Ballroom. Legal setback? Ballroom. Constitution? Probably improved by ballroom.

When courts point out that Congress is supposed to approve such things, the response is essentially that the Constitution is being very unfair and, frankly, anti-ballroom.

Supporters have taken it further, arguing that opposing the ballroom is not just bad policy but an active threat to the president’s life, because apparently the only thing standing between civilization and chaos is a heavily fortified banquet hall with seven-inch glass and excellent acoustics.

At this point, the ballroom isn’t just a building project. It’s a governing philosophy. Why deal with messy institutions, independent organizations, or inconvenient laws when you can simply build a bigger, shinier room and declare the problem solved?

In Trump’s Washington, every road leads to the same place: The ballroom.

Rick McKee - cagle.com/mckee

Clay Jones - Substack and Claytoonz

Michael de Adder - cagle.com/de-adder

Lee Judge - King Features

Dennis Goris

Michael Ramirez - Creators

Rob Rogers - Tinyview Comics and Andrews McMeel

Jimmy Margulies - King Features

Ted Rall - Andrews McMeel