Joy Reid’s Latest Meltdown Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Shows the Left’s Ignorance Once Again
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid — who has built a career on unhinged monologues and misplaced outrage — has done it again. This time, she launched into a rant about President Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom, getting nearly every fact wrong along the way.
Reid falsely claimed that taxpayers are footing the bill for the ballroom’s construction. In reality, the project is being funded privately by President Trump himself and a select group of donors, not with public money. That simple fact didn’t stop Reid from weaving her latest doom-and-gloom narrative.
“We are in the middle of a government shutdown,” Reid cried during her broadcast.
“We supposedly do not have any money that’s available to extend the subsidies to your healthcare. We don’t have that money, but somehow we have all kinds of extra coins available to get two private planes for Kristi Noem and her staff to use to try to purchase buildings in Chicago for ICE to use because nobody will let them use the bathroom or eat in their establishments … We had the money to do this to your White House. But no money for you. No money for food stamps, people are gonna run out of food stamps, those are not gonna be renewed. It’s gonna create a crisis of hunger across this country.”
@joyreidofficial Trump gets to ruin your #whitehouse with a tacky, $200 million ballroom but we have no money for #foodstamps or #healthcare … #makeitmakesense #fyp ♬ original sound - Joy Ann Reid
Her emotional tirade — posted across social media — conveniently ignored the century-long tradition of White House improvements under presidents from both parties. Since Theodore Roosevelt’s 1902 renovations, presidents have continually upgraded and expanded the Executive Mansion.
- 1902: Roosevelt constructed the West Wing and modernized key rooms, including the East Room and State Dining Room.
- 1909: President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office.
- 1948–1952: President Harry Truman completely rebuilt the White House interior due to structural collapse risk.
- 1973: President Richard Nixon installed the James S. Brady Briefing Room above the indoor pool and added a bowling alley below.
In short — Trump’s ballroom project fits neatly into a long history of White House modernization. But facts have never gotten in the way of left-wing pundits looking to attack him.
Predictably, other prominent Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren have piled on, accusing the president of “abusing power” or “wasting taxpayer money.” Yet the White House Rapid Response Team has confirmed that no federal funds are being used — making these accusations not just false, but deliberately misleading.
Joy Reid’s latest meltdown is another reminder that much of the corporate media would rather stoke outrage than tell the truth. Instead of acknowledging the private nature of the funding or the bipartisan history of White House construction, she chose to misinform her audience for clicks.
It’s no wonder she’s now a former MSNBC host.