File this one below The Street to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions.
On MSNBC’s The Weekend, in a section on President Trump’s ballroom undertaking co-host Eugene Daniels known as the Founding Fathers “nightmarish” on some insurance policies, citing slavery. Daniels acknowledged that the Founders obtained it proper in making a White Home that was comparatively small, the aim being to tell apart it from the palaces of royalty.
The unique Structure didn’t forbid slavery as a result of the Southern states, whose economies had been closely depending on slave labor, had made it clear that they might not be part of the USA if the Structure had abolished slavery.
Daniels would apparently have most well-liked a United States composed solely of the northern states, with the Southern states forming a separate nation. The ironic, doubtless outcome would have been for slavery to have endured past Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
In different issues:
The panelists needed to sheepishly admit that among the many donors to the ballroom undertaking is Comcast, MSNBC’s present homeowners. It has been reported that Comcast’s contribution shall be within the $5-10 million vary.
Predictably, the hosts discovered a solution to kvetch about the truth that the ballroom is being privately funded, saying there’d be no accountability, and that the donors would count on one thing in return. In fact, if Trump had discovered a solution to embrace the the ballroom’s value within the federal price range, the hosts would even have been outraged: “hard-working Individuals pressured to foot the invoice for this extravagant monstrosity!” No good deed goes unpunished
The panel condemned the truth that the price range for the undertaking has elevated to $350 million from the unique $200 million estimate. Might have been worse. Not less than it is not just like the Excessive Velocity Rail undertaking in Democrat-run California, whose projected prices have tripled through the years, and whose completion date has been pushed again from 2020 to 2040! Many predict that the originally-planned San Francisco to LA route will by no means be accomplished!
Citing an archival skilled, co-host Jackie Alemany admitted that “most affordable folks may agree, okay, perhaps the development of a ballroom is not the craziest concept.” She famous the necessity for friends to not have to make use of porta-potties.
Jonathan Capehart piped as much as say that he has been to a few state dinners [earning him a sarcastic “not to brag” from Alemany], and that the porta-potties are usually not of the construction-site selection, however are properly “decked out.” Capehart had earlier emoted, “I am unable to inform you the way upset [the East Wing demolition] makes me.” Nicely, he might. He claimed “everybody’s been speaking about how the destruction of the East Wing is an ideal metaphor for this administration, and it completely is.”
Lastly, you will notice that video clip begins with a number of seconds of the promo for Nicolle Wallace’s new-since-June podcast. Flaunting her elitism, Wallace has named it “The Finest Folks.” It is described as providing “various” views, however seems the views of “the very best folks” are the identical previous Trump-bashing to be discovered throughout MSNBC.
Examples from the podcasts:
- Jason Bateman calls Trump an “arsonist.”
- Martin Sheen: Trump’s cupboard “smells of ego and worry and false worship.”
- Anthony Scaramucci: Trump has “misplaced a step.”
- “Badass Stacey Abrams demolishes these ‘cowards.'”
You get the image. A brand new episode of “The Finest Folks” airs on Mondays. Do not fail to overlook it!
Here is the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
10/25/25
9:45 am EDTPROMO FOR NICOLLE WALLACE PODCAST, THE BEST PEOPLE: New episodes drop Mondays.
JACKIE ALEMANY: President Trump’s large demolition of the East Wing is now full. Satellite tv for pc footage present what the White Home complicated appeared like only a month in the past. And here is the scope of the destruction on Thursday, with the East Wing of the constructing fully gone.
It will get replaced with a part of President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the price of which has now ballooned to $350 million. The cash is predicted to return from non-public donors, together with Comcast, the present mother or father firm of MSNBC.
Because the demolition of the East Wing obtained underway this week, President Trump reversed course on what he stated earlier this summer season in regards to the undertaking.
PRESIDENT TRUMP [July 2025]: It will not intervene with the present constructing. It will be close to it, however not touching it. And pays whole respect to the present constructing, which I am the largest fan of. It is my favourite place. I adore it.
[October 22] We decided that after actually an amazing quantity of research with a few of the greatest architects on the earth, we decided that basically knocking it down, attempting to make use of a bit part. You understand, the east wing was not a lot. With a view to do it correctly, we needed to take down the present construction.
EUGENE DANIELS: Nicely.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Come on. That is the folks’s home! There are guidelines. There are procedures. And as soon as once more, everybody’s been speaking about how the destruction of the East Wing is an ideal metaphor for this administration, and it completely is.
He couldn’t care much less about what the East Wing means to the American folks. He could not care much less in regards to the function of Congress. He could not care much less in regards to the function of accountability He’s operating roughshod over the nation, and that proper there, what we’re watching proper there, is simply the proper, excellent metaphor.
I am unable to inform you the way upset this makes me.
DANIELS: There’s a few issues for me. Is, one, the rationale that when folks go to the White Home, they go, wait, it is a lot smaller than I anticipated. That was the purpose.
As a result of our Founders, as nightmarish as they had been on some insurance policies, like slavery, they knew that the sort of place that they wished the top of state to stay in, they wished it to be extra humble. They did not need it to be enormous. They did not need it to appear to be a palace. That is why it is not gold-encrusted till just lately, proper? That was essential to them, too.
He lied about not destroying it. A pair months in the past, when this primary got here out, they stated they weren’t going to the touch it the East Wing.
CAPEHART: You simply heard him say it.
DANIELS: After which, they only they utterly destroyed it with out telling anyone. Reporters simply noticed it occurring. Additionally, they added how a lot cash it was going to be. One other 50 p.c of how a lot goes to be. And that cash is being raised by all of those billionaires and companies —
CAPEHART: Privately.
DANIELS: Privately. And apparently the president, he stated he’ll throw some cash in. However the issue with that, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr stated higher than I can. However when that’s occurring, and it is not tax {dollars}, there is not any accountability. And people people are going to need one thing for giving cash to that home.
JACKIE ALEMANY: And most affordable folks may agree, okay, perhaps the development of a ballroom is not the craziest concept. When folks go to the state dinner, they must go to the toilet in porta-potties. Perhaps they need one thing nicer.
DANIELS: Not the robes within the porta-potties.
ALEMANY: However her challenge is the best way it has been carried out.
CAPEHART: As somebody who has been to a few state dinners —
ALEMANY: To not brag.
CAPEHART: — let me simply inform you that it is not, it is not, , the port-a-potty that you just see on the development website. These are decked out, tricked out.
ALEMANY: Jonathan is pro-port-a-potty.
CAPEHART: I’m.
DANIELS: And even when they weren’t, your little robe shall be high quality. Your robe shall be okay.
CAPEHART: We gotta go.
