Jon Lovett

Oh, I didn't.

No.

Shots me at this point last week that because this billion dollars is in the budget, they're all going to have to vote on it, and I think that's great.

It's a yes or no vote on the fucking ballroom.

Terrific.

Yeah, that's good.

Terrific.

But it's like you knock down the East Wing and you got to rebuild it.

Did you did you not?

Was it a different America in which there wasn't security?

Yeah.

You knew what the thing was going to fucking cost.

Now it's like a football stadium where these donors are going to have to go to the big unveiling because they're the ones responsible, but the vast majority of the cost is the taxpayers.

Because if the actual construction is $300 million, but securing the facility is $1 billion, costs that were inevitable and required in order to ever use it, it's a taxpayer ballroom, just 100%.

Hey, the reflecting pool wasn't a problem.

I'm open to the possibility that they could use a ballroom.

I don't think it would have been my priority, right?

But the reflecting pool was just doing its thing.

It's not the wrong color.

It looks great.