'Utter Lawlessness': Inside The Blistering Ballroom Ruling That Has Trump Melting Down
'Flouts Our Constitutional Order'
Donald Trump spent a long time melting down over the DC Appeals Court’s 2-1 decision halting his White House construction/destruction projects. We’re not sure he bothered to read the decision, but the blistering ruling is quite the statement.
On Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a 136-page ruling in National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service, with Judge Patricia Millett (an Obama appointee) and Judge Brad Garcia (a Biden appointee) writing the majority opinion.
Judge Neomi Rao (a Trump appointee) wrote a dissent that Trump quoted heavily when the ruling first came out.
In case you weren’t sure which way that decision went, Trump had this reaction on Friday:
Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling on the desperately needed SECURE Ballroom/Military Complex, including a major DronePort on the roof, that “Each President is a temporary tenant…of the White House.” We are not tenants, who pay rent and do all other things that a tenant must do, we are PRESIDENTS, elected by the people of the United States of America, and have many rights, including the right to fix, renovate, secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and rerenovated, repaired and, simply, MADE BETTER, many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress, or anyone else, to do so. This decision, made after much of the work has been done and paid for, is a National Security Threat at the highest level. It is also a National Disgrace. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
What’s a little ironic is that hours earlier, Trump bragged about his right to renovate, but also made an anti-demolition crack during an event at the State Department.
