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BumRushDaShow

(172,020 posts)
Thu May 14, 2026, 07:28 AM 2 hrs ago

'Trump Needs Medical Attention': Congressman Says President's Family Should Stage 'Intervention'

Source: MEDIAite

May 13th, 2026, 8:50 pm


Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said President Donald Trump’s call to arrest former President Barack Obama should trigger a medical “intervention.”. On Wednesday, Pablo Manríquez of MeidasTouch caught up with McGovern at the Capitol and first asked about the president’s obsession with the construction of the White House ballroom.

In January, the president fired the architect working on the project over reported differences about the size of the structure. After a gunman tried to breach last month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump and Republicans claimed the incident showed the need for a fortified building in which to hold such events, even though the WHCD is hosted by an organization of White House reporters and not the White House itself.

“Is Donald Trump’s ballroom a national emergency?” Manríquez asked.

“You gotta be kidding me,” McGovern responded. “It’s a vanity project that’s gonna cost the American taxpayers over a billion dollars at a time when people can’t afford their healthcare, they can’t afford their groceries, they cannot afford their fill up their gas tanks. I mean Donald Trump lives in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. And I wish we had some Republicans that would actually stand with us and actually fight for working people.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-needs-medical-attention-congressman-says-presidents-family-should-stage-intervention/

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raccoon

(32,459 posts)
7. Right. They want him to hang on in there so they can swindle as much as possible before he collapses or finally croaks,
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:01 AM
1 hr ago

which I'm beginning to wonder if that will ever happen.

lostnfound

(17,627 posts)
2. Not a vanity project. Not a ballroom. Cover story for fortress for the leaders of fascist dystopia?
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:42 AM
1 hr ago

The drey dossier is annoying and may be completely clickbait. But IF what they report is factual — that the companies involved in building it are not in the business of ballroom building; they build data centers with high security needs including underground headquarters for military operations — it sounds like an ‘occam’s razor’ explanation for the insanity.

Botany

(77,811 posts)
9. It is not a ballroom but Bunker. Das ist ein Fuhurbunker. Trump plans to never leave the White House.
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:20 AM
1 hr ago

Fucking up the White House, the Reflecting Pool, his Arc de Epstein, his ICE agents, pardoning the
J-6 shits, and grifting are all designed tests to see how much shit he can get away with.



rubbersole

(11,272 posts)
14. The IRS lawsuit "settlement" will top the list.
Thu May 14, 2026, 10:07 AM
18 min ago

Going to war for oil companies' interests isn't on the list of what he can get away with. It's why he was installed in the first place. None of the oil/gas we consume comes through the Strait of Hormuz. These price hikes are part of the great wealth transfer.

Botany

(77,811 posts)
15. But with the oil supply being hampered by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
Thu May 14, 2026, 10:12 AM
13 min ago

The Venezuelan Oil that aTrump and his supporters are now in control of is worth a lot more.

OGBuzz

(552 posts)
10. He's not building the Ballroom for Marco, JD, or any other of his MAGA ass kissers.....
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:21 AM
1 hr ago

or any Democrat for that matter. He's planning on staying.

llmart

(17,722 posts)
4. I doubt his family, especially Melanie, cares about him at all.
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:50 AM
1 hr ago

They do, however, care about how his stolen wealth will be divvied up once he croaks.

Crowman2009

(3,591 posts)
6. If there's any left.
Thu May 14, 2026, 08:55 AM
1 hr ago

Let us not forget that he owes a shit-ton of money to a lot of people.

rurallib

(64,811 posts)
13. Trump is no doubt working out how to take it with him
Thu May 14, 2026, 10:02 AM
23 min ago

and screwing over his family royally

chernabogg

(33 posts)
12. I'd settle for a shallow ditch
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:54 AM
31 min ago

Although then I would feel bad for the wildlife that attempt to feed on him.

relogic

(235 posts)
8. The petulant child is unstable
Thu May 14, 2026, 09:20 AM
1 hr ago

and was given the keys to the toy chest and insists on breaking as many as he can to achieve newer, brighter colored ones from his benefactors. Now he needs a bigger box to put them in. Some fool has also given him a sharpie and he’s scrawling his name on every wall in his padded room.

rhiannon55

(2,796 posts)
16. Yep. He plans to hide out in the bunker
Thu May 14, 2026, 10:24 AM
1 min ago

Rather than leave the White House. The ballroom is just icing on his fucking cake.

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