Exclusive: Trump STUNS Critics as Even Fetterman Says Build THIS White House Secret

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[00:00:02]Next news, breaking news from the White House.

[00:00:08]President Trump just turned a so-called vanity project into an America first national security priority. Now even some of his critics are being forced to admit he was right. After the terrifying violence at the White House correspondents dinner, the question is no longer why Trump wants a secure White House ballroom. The question is why anyone would try to stop it. Trump says the current set setup left the line of succession exposed. Speaker Mike Johnson agrees. Caroline Levit says it's critical. And John Federman even he is now saying build it. So who's still blocking this?

[00:00:44]Now this matters to every American because this is not about decorating the White House. This is about whether the president, vice president, cabinet, and congressional leadership can gather in one hardened secure location without being exposed to hotel rooms, overhead, weak access points, and the kind of confusion we all just witnessed.

[00:01:03]President Trump revealed the venue was not secure, and said the military and secret service are demanding a ballroom with protection built for modern threats, including drone proofing, bullet resistance features.

[00:01:16]Mike Johnson added that the planned facility would include 7 in thick glass and sit inside the most secure compound in the world. See, that means fewer vulnerabilities, faster control, and safer events when America's leadership is together. And politically, this is devastating for the anti-Trump crowd. What they mocked as excess now looks like preparedness. What they tried to sneer at now looks like common sense. And the lefts, they they spent years attacking Trump's instincts.

[00:01:45]And once again, events proved he was seeing danger before the establishment did.

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[00:02:53]And here's the part that changes everything. Trump says he didn't rush out immediately because he wanted to see what was happening. Think about that. In the middle of the chaos, the president was personally trying to assess the threat while Secret Service moved to get him out. That tells you just how exposed and improvised this environment was. It was not a controlled secure White House setting. It was a warning shot to the entire country that the old way of doing events is no longer acceptable.

[00:03:21]Here's a post. US Senator John Federman.

[00:03:24]We were there front and center. That venue wasn't built to accommodate an event with the line of secession for the US government. after witnessing last night drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these. And he put a headline from Mediite, I was inside the Washington Hilton tonight. The security was downright awful. So even Federman had to admit the venue was wrong for an event that sensitive. Now Trump explains what he says the media won't. The building was not secure and the military is demanding a White House ballroom. Here's President Trump just an hour or so after the assassination attempt in the White House briefing room.

[00:04:09]All of the conditions that took place tonight and I will say, you know, it's not a particularly secure building. And uh I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's a much more secure. It's got it's drone proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why secret service. That's why the military are demanding it.

[00:04:39]They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons. But today's uh a little bit different because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before.

[00:04:54]But everyone owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the courage of law enforcement, the the law enforcement and working with the DC police and we just spoke with the mayor and when we're finished the when we're finished, let's just hope we can finish the ballroom.

[00:05:15]They're just putting roadblocks in front of him. That's all it is. He'll get it done.

[00:05:20]You saw Trump laying out the security case in plain English. Now he turns the pressure and says Democrats trying to block the ballroom. Trump erupting says if we had if we had a new ballroom which Dems are trying to block, he'd have a secure facility to hold events and not possibly get shot at. Drop the lawsuit all of the conditions that took place tonight and I will say, you know, so President Trump reveals the building was not secure and he needs to surge renovations at the White House. not just talk. Trump is making the case.

[00:05:54]Here's a here's a really cool video I found. I want to share it with you guys.

[00:05:57]It gives the whole story of all the different renovations at the White House over many many years.

[00:06:19]Heat.

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[00:07:02]How cool is that?

[00:07:04]Such a cool animation.

[00:07:07]I don't know who made that, but that's the evolution of the White House from the beginning through the great big beautiful ballroom. Okay. Oh, no. This is actually a post that President Trump made on Truth Social. My bad.

[00:07:20]Trump actually made that post.

[00:07:23]So, it gives the viewers the full picture of what Trump wants built. Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson backs them up, gets specific about these safety features, including the 7in thick glass.

[00:07:35]they they've incited violence in my view. I mean, you have uh some of the the most prominent figures in the House and the Senate on the Democrat side, uh effectively, you know, calling for for uh for war. I mean, they use that those kinds of metaphors and it incites violence because there are crazy people in society and um they get radicalized online. And so, we've got to recognize that it's time to turn down the rhetoric. We've been saying this over and over and and not use that kind of language. Uh, I hope that this will be a sobering reminder for everybody about that very important cause. I'm grateful to Federman. He's right. The ballroom will will be a solution for this because it'll be on the most secure compound in the world. It won't have hotel rooms above it and it'll have 7in thick glass for example on the windows. U so it'll be a very safe environment to do events like this. We need a place. We have needed a place like that and the president keeps pointing it out.

[00:08:27]Speaker Mike Johnson says the ballroom is real security, not vanity. Here's Federman. Here's more from Federman revealing he initially had no clue why Trump was trying to build the ballroom.

[00:08:38]Now he does and supports it.

[00:08:40]>> Really had a strong opinion on the ballroom to to be be honest, but but this clearly demonstrated. You you know how difficult it is to move around there and you know that the the ballroom is is effectively underground and it has very limited very limited kinds of ingress and regress to get out egress. So I I think from an evacuation and when you have to evacuate whether the president or other parts of of the leadership I mean this is just not the right place for that. And I do hope they they talked about to reschedu it. I just hope it's the the kinds of security that they don't have the entire chain of succession a after all all of it given what could have happened and I I think I think the shooter was actually bragging about how we have so lacks security we have a lot of flaws there can you imagine remind people too the DHS was still shut down for that and now we know we're actively in conflict with Iran and if there was sleeper uh cells part of it they would have had months to to prepare for this kind of a thing. So for me, I just walked away from that still kind of stunned how lucky we were that no one was seriously hurt. And when we have the significant majority of our leadership right there in just a very very small clustered area, they could have been much more catastrophic here for our nation that day.

[00:10:04]>> There's one Democrat with some common sense saying the chaos on site changed his mind fast. Now, Trump gives firsthand account those tense seconds and reveals why Secret Service had trouble moving him out. Here he is on 60 Minutes.

[00:10:20]>> You see the security moving quickly within seconds, grabbing the vice president by his coat, lifting him up, >> bringing him out. Then the counter assault comes in. Took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President. And then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic. At one point you were down. what was happening.

[00:10:41]>> Well, what happened is uh it was a little bit me. I wanted to see what was happening and I wasn't making it that easy for him. I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time, we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one, and different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom which you hear all the time. And I was surrounded by great people and I probably made them act a little bit more slowly. I said, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me see. Wait a minute." So, you know, I'm telling guys >> just at that moment where it looks like you go sort of down with the service, you were telling them to wait.

[00:11:19]>> Well, I know what happened is then I started walking with them. I turned I started walking and they said, "Please go down. Please go down on the floor."

[00:11:27]So, I went down and first lady went down also. But we were asked to go down by the uh agents as I was walking. In other words, >> they wanted you almost to crawl.

[00:11:37]>> I was standing up pretty much. I was standing up and then turned around the opposite direction and started pretty much walking out pretty tall, a little bent over because I, you know, I'm not looking to be standing too tall. And uh but I was walking out was pretty about halfway there and they said, "Please go down to the floor. Please go down to the floor." So, I dropped to the floor. So did the first lady.

[00:12:04]>> You know, it makes sense. Now, if you guys have been following me on X, uh, I watched some of the footage immediately after the event. I watched it and I counted the seconds and I noticed that they took Vance and as soon as they took Vance, it took him 20 seconds to get Trump out of that room. It took him 10 seconds to get from Vance to Trump.

[00:12:31]And I'm thinking to myself, why the hell would it take that long? A lot can happen in 10 seconds, even more in 20 seconds.

[00:12:41]So now, President Trump making it very clear, answering the question. Now, I wasn't saying there was a security failure.

[00:12:49]I was wondering like what what kind of protocol is this? And that the only thing I can think of now and with President Trump remarks it was President Trump delaying them. I mean, President Trump's the only one who can override Secret Service protocol in a moment. I mean, he's personally done that for me.

[00:13:08]He did that for me in 2019 in Milwaukee during a photograph with my wife when she couldn't get into the picture because she was left off a photo card.

[00:13:18]And I asked the president first I asked Secret Service and they said you know no uh she can't get in the picture. So I when I walked up to the president after everybody's talking and kiss you know shaking hands and kissing babies all that stuff going on and I asked him sir my wife and he said go get your wife.

[00:13:38]Secret service went and got my wife even after Secret Service told me no.

[00:13:43]So it it all comes together. It all makes perfect sense now why it took 20 seconds from Vance to Trump to to get out of that room.

[00:13:52]Amazing.

[00:13:54]It tells you just how close it got and how Trump handled it in real time. Now Caroline Levit drives it home from the White House. The ballroom is critical for national security.

[00:14:06]Here she is in the press briefing today.

[00:14:09]Unfortunately, we don't have a room big enough here at the White House, which is another point to be made. And the president is absolutely right. It's why um the White House ballroom project is not just a fun project uh for President Trump like you will read in the media.

[00:14:24]It is actually critical for our national security. that a larger secure building on this complex which is the most secure complex in the world is built to accommodate not only large amounts of guests but also the president, the vice president, members of the cabinet. The line of secession in this country should be able to gather freely in safety uh without the fear of threats or political violence and the White House ballroom will provide that and so it's critical um that we get this project done as quickly as possible.

[00:14:55]Caroline Levit laying it out, shutting down the usual media spin, calling the project essential.

[00:15:03]And now we have the acting attorney general Todd Blanch boiling it down in four words. It is time to build the ballroom putting out this memo.

[00:15:14]US Department of Justice, Office of Attorney General sending it to Greg Greg P. Greg Craig, National Trust for Historic Preservation and National Park Service. Last night, there was another attempt on President Trump's life. This time, the shooter targeted President Trump at the Washington Hilton, the only ballroom in DC suitable for hosting large gatherings for the president, where another shooter targeted President Reagan 45 years ago.

[00:15:45]As history proves, that venue is demonstrabably unsafe for the president of the United States because of its size presents extraordinary security challenges for Secret Service.

[00:15:58]Yesterday's assassination attempt on President Trump proves yet again that the White House ballroom is essential for safety and security of the president, his family, his cabinet, and his staff.

[00:16:07]When the White House ballroom is complete, President Trump and his successors will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of the White House perimeter to attend large gatherings at the Washington Hilton ballroom.

[00:16:20]Making it clear.

[00:16:22]Now, here comes the blockade.

[00:16:25]Still, a new group won't end its lawsuit to halt Trump's ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation said the case rests on questions of executive authority, not national security.

[00:16:37]The president must follow the law, the group's lawyer wrote in a letter shared with the Post. Group won't end ballroom lawsuit amid calls for construction to move forward. The National Trust for Historic Preservation said that it would continue its legal challenge to President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom after the Justice Department called for the group to drop its lawsuit following the weekend shooting at the White House correspondents dinner. They won't stop.

[00:17:01]They will not stop.

[00:17:04]Unbelievable.

[00:17:06]So the big reveal is this. The ballroom fight is really a fight between reality and ideology.

[00:17:12]Reality says the threat environment has changed. Reality says the line of secession needs a secure gathering place on White House grounds. Reality says Trump is building for the world as it is, not the fantasy world the media prefers. Even Federman admitted the event showed how hard it is to move people safely and evacuate leadership quickly. Caroline Levit called the project critical. Todd Blanch said it plainly. It's time to build the ballroom, but the establishment still wants process games and lawsuits.

[00:17:42]That tells you everything. They would rather obstruct Trump than fix an obvious security weakness.

[00:17:48]President Trump is protecting the presidency itself, and his enemies are still trying to stop the walls from going up. So, here's the bottom line.

[00:17:58]President Trump was right again. The ballroom is not a side project. It's a security upgrade for the presidency, for the continuity of government, and for the safety of the American people whose leaders may need to gather under threat after what happened. Blocking this project looks reckless.

[00:18:17]The White House needs that hardened facility and it needs it fast. If you agree, share this video everywhere because the legacy media will do everything they can to bury the obvious.

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