Leavitt: "...at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority..."

[Miles Archer]

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that President Donald Trump's "main priority" at the moment is constructing a $200 million ballroom addition to the White House.

When she was asked whether Trump had any plans for additional White House renovations, she replied, "Not to my knowledge, no, but he's a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart and his mind is always churning about how to improve things here on the White House grounds. But at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Leavitt possibly only meant "priority" in the narrow sense of what Trump wants to do with the White House, and not government in general — but the ambiguous way she phrased it prompted immediate criticism and attacks from Democratic lawmakers, staffers, and pundits, who seized on her remarks on social media to mean that Trump cares more about adding luxury amenities onto the White House than he does about reopening the federal government, paying millions of civil servants, or restoring health care subsidies to working people.

https://www.rawstory.com/karoline-leavitt-2674227605/

[lame54]

1. That's how I hear it

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Hope every MAGAt who is being hit by Trump's other decisions feel this one in the gut.

[ananda]

3. He's a "builder" at heart...

That's rich.

It's hard to put into words the way
destruction means building to Trumpers.

[maxsolomon]

7. He's a grifter at heart.

He's never swung a hammer in his life.

[Irish_Dem]

13. He kills everything he touches.

Not much of a builder.

[Miles Archer]

14. Jimmy Carter was "a builder at heart."

I don't know what the tally on homes completed by Habitat for Humanity was while Jimmy was still with us.

I also have no knowledge of a single altruistic act by Trump. Not one.

Leavitt has daddy / fangirl issues with Trump. That. and a total lack of self-awareness. Makes her a perfect serf for Kim Jong Don.

[ananda]

17. Yes he was, in more ways than one.

A year after I moved here, I sold my car
to a worker at our local Habitat.

I was happy to give her a good deal.

[tanyev]

15. There's only one part of "building" he excels at:

[Walleye]

4. He's always talking to the press, some brave reporter should ask him what his main priority is

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Not good at multi-tasking, is he?

Good that he has Stephen Miller to think and make decisions for him.

[BeyondGeography]

6. As for all the suckers who put him in that job

HAH!

Care to walk that one back, Karolyin?

[Rebl2]

8. His

priority is to steal as much as he can from the government and destroy democracy and our constitution and republicans are helping him.

[allegorical oracle]

9. Every day in Leavitt's press room is a "Let Them Eat Cake" day. How long before

Oval Office visitors will be warned to bow/curtsy to him as they're greeted?

[struggle4progress]

10. His top priority is getting richer

and enlarging his circle of crooked friends like Santos!

[Turbineguy]

11. That's nice, Stephen Miller giving Donnie a task.

I Can Do It By Myself.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Maybe his staff is distracting him with shiny objects and building projects.

The priority is supposed to be working for the American people.

[uponit7771]

16. Nope, she said what she said... PedoCon wants a ball room for his pedo friends

[Americanme]

18. Of course it is.

One of his ghostwriters said that as he was facing bankruptcy, he was preoccupied with fabric swatches and sometimes wood paneling. While his "empire" was falling down around him.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. HIS PRIORITY IS HIDING THE EPSTEIN FILES

At this point, I’m not sure why he’s concerned at all. His base clearly will either refuse to believe or excuse away anything he does.