Wait. I’m not done.
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I gave you six outrages.
I didn’t even get to the ballroom. Or the arch. Or the golf course. Or the reflecting pool. Or the fact that he told us — out loud, on camera, in plain English — that he doesn’t give a single damn about your financial situation. Or the 3,700 stock trades. Or Ken Paxton. Or Tom Massie.
That’s five more. Eleven total. Just this week.
Let me finish.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #7 — THE $400 MILLION BALLROOM, THE ARCH, AND THE GOLF COURSE
The East Wing of the White House was demolished in October 2025. In its place: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom complex. Trump said it would cost $200 million. Then $300 million. Then $400 million. Senate Republicans then slipped a $1 billion allocation into an immigration enforcement bill to cover “security upgrades” related to the construction. Trump had promised repeatedly — repeatedly — that “zero taxpayer dollars” would be used.
The project grew in scope while growing in cost. There is also a military underground complex being built beneath the ballroom, a drone-proof roof, a glass bridge connecting the ballroom to the residence, a movie theater, and First Lady offices. The donors funding it — routed through the National Park Service to obscure who paid what — include BlackRock, Nvidia, Jeff Yass, and a collection of tech executives whose companies have active business before the administration. Their names were initially withheld from the disclosure list.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued. A federal judge ordered a halt. The administration appealed on national security grounds. Construction continues.
The Harding tree — planted by Florence Harding in 1922 — was cut down during demolition. So was a tree planted to honor Franklin Roosevelt in 1942. These were not obstacles. They were history. But history doesn’t come with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This is the same man who spent years publicly mocking Barack Obama’s use of event tents at the White House as “not a pretty sight.” He then spent $400 million-plus tearing down the East Wing to build a ballroom so he wouldn’t need tents. Tents cost $1 million per event.
And yes — he also proposed a triumphal arch somewhere on the National Mall. And is renovating a public golf course changing an inexpensive excursion into an unaffordable country club, with what critics have described as federal resources and attention that border on self-dealing. We’ll be back to both.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #8 — THE REFLECTING POOL: “$2 MILLION.” ACTUAL COST: $13.1 MILLION.
Trump wanted to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. His words: “American flag blue.” He said he had “a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools” and that he had consulted three contractors who had previously worked on his personal pools. He publicly stated the job would cost $1.8 million.
The National Park Service then awarded a no-bid contract — bypassing federal competitive bidding law — to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia firm from Trump’s personal contractor network. The justification: “unusual and compelling urgency.” The urgent emergency, as Interior Secretary Burgum explained to Congress under direct questioning, was that nineteen fountains across Washington weren’t working.
When a congressman asked if that constituted the “serious injury to the government” required by statute for a no-bid contract, Burgum confirmed: yes. Nineteen fountains not working. National emergency.
The contract was signed at $6.9 million — already nearly four times Trump’s public estimate — before Trump even made his public announcement about the cost. The Interior Department then quietly added $6.2 million to the contract on May 9, bringing the total to $13.1 million. More than seven times what Trump said it would cost.
When the New York Times reported the actual numbers, Trump posted on Truth Social that he “didn’t give out the contract” and that “Interior” selected a contractor “I did not know, and have never used before.”
He had previously told reporters on camera: “I said, ‘What we’re going to do is, I’m going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past, doing swimming pools.'”
The two statements cannot both be true.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #9 — “NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT”
On May 12, before leaving for China, Trump took questions from reporters on the White House lawn. A reporter asked him directly:
“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?”
Trump replied, without hesitation: “Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran is they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”
A second reporter asked him to clarify. He doubled down.
“Not even a little bit.” His words. His voice. His face.
This is the man who ran for president on the promise that he alone could fix your grocery bills. Your gas prices. Your rent. Your electric bill. Your airline tickets. Cut them all in half in twelve months. He said that. Explicitly. Repeatedly. On stage. In interviews. In closing arguments to voters.
Energy rates cut in half in twelve months: LIE.
Gasoline below $2 a gallon: LIE.
Lower electricity rates: LIE.
Lower grocery prices: LIE.
Lower airfare: LIE.
Lower housing costs: LIE.
Restore free speech: LIE.
End the weaponization of government: LIE.
No third world war: He started a war with Iran.
You believed him. Or you knew it was all nonsense and voted for him anyway because you wanted someone to own the people you hate. Either way: the results are the same. And he told you — on camera, no hesitation — that your financial situation doesn’t enter his mind. Not even a little bit.
The latest New York Times/Siena poll: 69% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the cost of living. Just 28% approve. That 28% apparently needed to hear it from the man himself. And even if they heard it directly from the mouth of this snake, they wouldn’t believe it. I don’t know if shame is a feeling that ever affects them.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #10 — 3,700 STOCK TRADES IN 90 DAYS
Trump filed disclosure documents with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics this week revealing more than 3,700 stock trades made on his behalf during the first quarter of 2026. The total value of those transactions runs between $220 million and $750 million. In a single quarter.
The companies include Nvidia, Intel, Boeing, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, GE Aerospace, Qualcomm, Citigroup, Visa, Dell, and others. These are not passive holdings. These are active trades — buys and sells — at extraordinary frequency.
Every single one of these companies has active business before his administration. Nvidia is central to the AI policy he is shaping. Boeing received record defense orders he announced. Intel received a $5 billion government-facilitated investment — a deal Trump authorized — that sent Intel’s stock surging nearly 40% in a single day, handing Trump a paper gain of approximately $4.9 billion on the government’s stake alone.
No prior president has maintained an active investment portfolio while in office. No prior president has refused to divest or place assets in a blind trust. No prior president has made 3,700 trades — at a pace of roughly 41 trades per day — in companies whose stock prices are directly affected by his own policy announcements.
Wall Street veterans were blunt. “I’m baffled,” said Eric Diton of The Wealth Alliance, a 40-year industry veteran. “In the 40-plus years of my time on Wall Street, this is an unusual amount of trading by any standards.”
It has a name. When the person making the trade is also the person making the decisions that move the price, it has a name. We’re just not allowed to say it because he’s the president.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #11 — THE CRIMINALS HE ENDORSES AND THE HONEST MEN HE DESTROYS
On May 19, Trump endorsed Ken Paxton for the United States Senate seat in Texas, defying Senate Republican leadership who had spent months begging him to back the incumbent, John Cornyn.
Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges in 2015. He was impeached by the Texas House in 2023. He was acquitted by the corrupt Texas Senate. His own wife filed for divorce on “biblical grounds.” He has been under FBI investigation for alleged bribery, corruption, and abuse of office. His own senior staff resigned en masse and reported him to law enforcement.
Trump’s statement: “Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas.” He described Paxton as someone who had been treated “very unfairly.” (Like every other criminal Republican who gets caught.)
On the same day, Trump’s endorsed challenger defeated Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a Republican primary. Massie’s crime: he co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, a bipartisan effort to compel the Justice Department to release unredacted files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Trump had called Massie a “LOSER” and a “lightweight.” He sent Pete Hegseth (who, I am sure, has nothing better to do.) to Kentucky to campaign against him. He threatened Rep. Lauren Boebert with a primary of her own when she had the audacity to campaign alongside Massie.
Let that sentence sit: Donald Trump, the man who ran on exposing the Epstein network, used the full weight of the Republican Party to destroy the career of the congressman who was actually trying to release the Epstein files.
He surrounds himself with criminals. He destroys the people trying to find out who the criminals are.
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FINAL THOUGHT: THE MATH OF OUTRAGE
Eleven outrages. One week. His term is (52 weeks * 4 years) 208 weeks.
208 weeks times 11 outrages per week equals 2,288 outrages. Call it 2,500 with rounding and the ones we missed. That’s enough material to keep this report going until 2029 — when this is supposed to end. If it ends.
So here’s the question I want to leave you with:
Did you believe him when he said he’d lower your grocery bill? When he said gas would be under two dollars? When he said he’d end the wars, end the weaponization, end the corruption, drain the swamp?
Or did you know it was all lies and vote for him anyway? Because you wanted someone to hurt the people you wanted hurt.
Because those are the only two options. One of them means you were deceived. And the other means something else about you that I’ll leave you to name for yourself.
Either way — here we are.
80 weeks, 11 outrages per week, just about a thousand outrages to go.
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— The Deep State Club | deepstate.club
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