A liberal podcaster floated a wild conspiracy about President Donald Trump’s true intentions for his massive White House ballroom.
“There is a fear that he ain’t leaving, and that is something to be taken very seriously,” Anthony Davis, the host of MeidasTouch’s The Weekend Show, said during an episode released on Monday.
“It almost sounds humorous that he wouldn’t, but he will,” the British broadcaster continued. “He said in a rally speech, and I’ll never forget it, that his greatest regret was leaving the White House in 2021, and he should’ve just, you know, hunkered down.”
Last month, the 79-year-old president said that the military is creating a “massive complex” underneath the $400 million ballroom ballroom, which would have “high grade bulletproof glass,” something Davis fears could be used to serve any authoritarian desires.
“He’s building an additional 100,000 square feet to hunker down this time with a military installation below this giant ballroom that will clearly never be used for balls,” he said.
Trump, meanwhile, explained the bunker in different terms.
“The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on March 29.
When the president first announced plans for the ballroom last year, he said it would be built to accommodate large events that currently require tents on the White House lawn.
“The White House State Ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of ornately designed and carefully crafted space, with a seated capacity of 650 people — a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House,” the administration said in July.
“Do you worry, as some of us do, that there is a coup on the way?” Davis asked his guest Kristen Clarke, who serves as general counsel for the NAACP, a civil rights organization.
Clarke, who previously served in the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice, sounded less concerned.
“The Constitution makes clear that his time is coming to an end,” she said. “And I hope that the courts will hold on this very simple provision of the Constitution that makes clear that he’s gotta go.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was “stolen” and “rigged.” And, since returning to the White House, he has suggested that he may try to stay in office beyond two terms, which would violate the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution.
On Monday, he quipped to a group of business leaders that he may depart the White House “eight or nine years from now.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has accused the media of overreacting to Trump’s comments.
“Look, you guys continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer,” she told reporters last March.
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