President Donald Trump has spent a great deal of time in his second term dealing with White House decor, whether it’s the Rose Garden renovation, new gold accents all over the Oval Office, or a seemingly nonstop rotation of new portraits.
The president’s other big project is a new White House ballroom, the construction of which was announced at the end of July. Construction will begin in September and is “expected to be completed long before the end of President Trump’s term.”
The ballroom has a listed cost of $200 million, and per the White House’s press release, it will be privately funded. “President Trump and other patriot donors have generously committed to donating the funds necessary.”
🇺🇸🍾 MAGA BALLROOM 2028 – You are invited to the grand opening of the Beautiful Ballroom. A new chapter. An AI experiment #maga #democracy pic.twitter.com/ShN1XoQ9C6
— Ari K (@arikuschnir) August 6, 2025
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This week, a video appeared on X, generated from AI, making fun of the ballroom. Titled “MAGA Ballroom 2028,” it’s dubbed an “AI Experiment,” credited to Ari Kuschnir, along with “Tools Freepik,” ChatGPT and other generative tools.
The AI video begins with Trump in a tuxedo, hosting fancy events in the new ballroom. It’s cut with down-on-their-luck Trump supporters looking sad, burning their MAGA hats, and living a sad existence of expensive eggs. Meanwhile, back in the ballroom, hamburgers are being served.
The video also features ICE agents coming to arrest a family with a “Latinos for Trump” sign outside their house, women who resemble Marjorie Taylor Greene swooning over Trump, people who appear to be Diddy and Ghislaine Maxwell drinking champagne in the ballroom, and the “Epstein files” being hauled away.
As bad things continue to happen to MAGA people, from flood waters to eviction notices, we see AI representations of Trump Administration figures living it up in the new ballroom, mostly by taking drinks of champagne or eating luxurious food. However, the Pete Hegseth figure seems to be drinking water and not alcohol.
Neither the end, people in MAGA hats turn against the Trump Administration, storming the barricades of the White House in what looks a lot like a repeat of January 6. It ends with a flash forward of 100 years, when a woman declares “that was the end of the first phase of democracy as laid out by the founding fathers, and the beginning of the healing.”
The video imagines the MAGA base turning on Trump and his allies for luxuriating in wealth, something that have not typically done in his decade-plus in politics.
Photo courtesy of White House press release.
