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Trump Begging For $1 Billion From Taxpayers For Ballroom? He Was Never Paying

May 6, 2026·20 min·4-min readconversationalpolitics
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Wajahat Ali and host Jennifer engage in a darkly comedic yet incisive takedown of Donald Trump’s proposed $1 billion taxpayer-funded ‘ballroom,’ which they argue is a thinly veiled bunker and monument to authoritarian narcissism. The conversation spirals into a broader indictment of Trump

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Wajahat Ali

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Wajahat AliJenniferRuth Ben-GhiatDonald TrumpItamar Ben-GvirJoe BidenMerrick GarlandBenjamin Netanyahu

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AuthoritarianismCriminal JusticeDemocracyForeign PolicyPolitical NewsRacial JusticeUs Politics

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