Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) are defending the construction of three ballroom at the White House.
Maher called the price tag the equivalent of “couch money” to taxpayers.
The two talked about the ballroom at the start of Monday’s “Club Random.”
“This thing won’t even be finished by the time he’s done!” Fetterman said, adding Trump wasn’t building a “Dave and Buster[s].”
“Meanwhile the money is like one angstrom unit of a percentage point of what our budget is. So it doesn’t matter anyway,” Maher said. “It’s couch money.”
He continued, stating the bill for the ballroom doesn’t sound outlandish to him.
“$330 million is about what a ballroom costs,” Maher said.
Fetterman said he spent $330 million on his campaign in 2022 — and campaigns have gotten more expensive.
“The ballroom has a purpose, a lot of senators you work with do not,” Maher said.
Fetterman those against the ballroom have “TDS” — or Trump Derangement Syndrome — which is infecting the Democratic Party.
“If he came out [in favor] for ice cream and lazy Sundays, we would f*ckin’ hate it,” Fetterman said.
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Last week, Trump said the ballroom would cost less than $400 million. He has boasted it will be funded by donations from companies like Meta and Apple.
Some Republicans proposed adding $1 billion for security enhancements to the budget. That hasn’t been approved.
Trump has pushed for the ballroom to get finished. He said it is needed after the third assassination attempt against him last month at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
