Trump Gags White House Wrecking Crews as Backlash Mounts

[Eugene]

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump Gags White House Wrecking Crews as Backlash Mounts

Catherine Bouris
Fri, October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM EDT
2 min read

Construction workers involved in the demolition of the East Wing of the White House have signed non-disclosure agreements and are not permitted to speak to the press.

Workers who did respond to press inquiries told reporters, “We’re not allowed to answer questions” and “Everything has to go through the White House press office,” CNN reports.

Others said they had signed NDAs that legally prevent them from sharing confidential information. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

A White House official who spoke to CNN said NDAs were routine, particularly as some contractors require security clearances because “there are aspects of the project that deal with operational security on campus.”

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gags-white-house-wrecking-043509809.html

[CincyDem]

1. Probably so nobody recognizes how many have Russian accents. n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Hahaha!

[Wicked Blue]

28. Little Green Men of course

[popsdenver]

38. Putin probably sent over

the construction crews that built HIS humongous, gilded in gold ballroom.....

[Lovie777]

2. The anger is strong...............

destroying the WH for a ballroom, while the USA's economy sucks. People may lose their healthcare, hell, they are losing their jobs, not getting salaries. Prices are sky high, can't afford rent, house payments, car note, insurance.

But hey, 40 billion to Argentina, and shithole and comrades are paying ICE, the deportations, the concentration camps while treating immigrants, USA citizens, even visitors inhumanly.

[travelingthrulife]

6. MAGA insists we will love it when it is done. That is what Faux is preaching.

Never mind the illegality.

[popsdenver]

39. Trump,

Republican Politicans, and Republican Mega Donors are the only ones who will ever see it.......and pay 5,000 dollars a plate for dinner.....

Mar-a-Gago only holds a few hundred for dinners, this one will hold 900.........Trump has to pay for the cost of dinners at Mar-a-Gago, including the food........At the white house dinners, the tax payers will pick up all the costs and food expenses......

[homegirl]

56. Teaser on news channel..

the Ball Room will be named, are you ready for it..

The Donald John Trump Ball Room

Why is no one surprised...

[jmbar2]

3. Wonder if the NDAs prevent them from being vetted for security/espionage risks?

Can't friggin' believe that there was nothing to prevent a rogue president from destroying the White House.

[PatSeg]

10. We all know that Trump doesn't care about security

clearances. He doesn't have anyone vetted. Our country is extremely vulnerable to threats from our enemies while he is in office. The only enemies he is concerned about are his political adversaries and a big percentage of the American people.

[popsdenver]

41. The Republicans

have been organizing and orchestrating this for over 45+ years. All their decades of work has come together for this PERFECT STORM......

[orangecrush]

50. Makes two of us

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. A secret service employee travels in the truck when the drebis is hauled off

[popsdenver]

42. They could have

salvaged a bunch of useable stuff, and donated it to Habitat.............

At the rate they are progressing, I wouldn't be surprised if it was ready for a new years eve party.......

[travelingthrulife]

5. They fucking work for US!

NDAs are most certainly not routine.

[maxsolomon]

23. They're quite routine in the Construction Industry

I am on a project with one right now.

For Govt contracts? Not sure how common they are.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. Must be why mysteries of pyramid construction have been difficult to ascertain: Pyramid workers signed NDAs!

[Mr. Ected]

8. Anoint me a conspiracy theorist, but something about this "ballroom" has my Spidey senses working overtime

I think the ballroom is a distraction. They're doing something else, something far more sinister, than constructing a ballroom. The speed at which they're working, the fact that none of this was disclosed in advance, these NDA's with the workers....to me, they're up to something. As they always are.

[William Seger]

13. It's a distraction AND a grift

There's no way the Royal Ballroom should cost $350m. There is no accounting or tracking for the donations, so a lot of that money will simply disappear — but the "donors" know what they're really buying.

[popsdenver]

46. Bingo WS

on Both statements..........

There is not a single thing that he has touched his ENTIRE life, that wasn't a corrupt grift.........

[evolves]

22. OF COURSE

it's a money-laundering operation.

For all we know, they took all of the priceless national heirlooms out and sold them on the black market-- historical fixtures, portraits, service pieces like the china chosen by First Ladies of the past.

Shades of "The Rape of Europa:" the documentary detailing the Nazi theft of the artistic treasures of Europe, many of which have never been found.

That is OUR House, NOT his.

Who will put a stop to it all is the question....

[Ocelot II]

26. It will be built with the cheapest possible materials, and Trump will stiff the contractors.

It will actually cost a fraction of what he's claiming, but since he won't have to account for the costs or the payments, he can keep the millions that are left over after the project is completed, the plywood and particle board painted and gilded so the oligarchs who paid for it don't notice the poor quality - at least for a few years until bits of the gold-painted styrofoam arabesques from Hobby Lobby start falling off into Peter Thiel's lobster bisque.

[Captain Zero]

33. It will have bugs built in to spy on

our national security apparatus which lies below it in bunkers, and all around it above ground.

Whoever above said the NDAs are so we don't notice the Russian Accents of the demo crews was exactly right. It will be the same with construction crews. Scores of Russians will be embedded in those crews.

You never see a Russian get deported under a Trump admin, do you?

[popsdenver]

47. Only that Russian

phony NRA "fuck thing" they utilized during the run up to the 2016 election.......They held her for a few months, and then released her.....just as they will do with Ghislaine....(sp?)

[markodochartaigh]

31. Interesting that it's over the secure bunker.

But, also, surely this is a huge way for Trump to prove that he can do anything that he wants.

And the more that he proves that he can do anything that he wants, the stronger and more established his power grows.

Two year olds learn this when their parents let them go wild.

How many people, on either side, would have or could have predicted last November that Trump would literally demolish part of the White House with not much more than a ripple of protest?

[thought crime]

43. A bunker for the end times.

[popsdenver]

48. There will also be a horse stable

and quarters for the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

[popsdenver]

44. Maybe, they are also building a giant vault

under the ball room to house all the Gold in Fort Knox........??????????

[C_U_L8R]

9. Bring them to testify on Capitol Hill

Trump’s stupid NDAs mean nothing there.

[louis-t]

11. You know what's laughable? These guys actually think

they're going to get paid! Now he's trying to sue his own DOJ for $230 million that some think will go to pay for his ballroom monument to himself. It will go in his pocket. Oh, and by the way, these contractors should be prosecuted. Who knows how many ordinances and laws they have broken to accommodate Herr Drumpf.

[popsdenver]

49. Can't even imagine

the numbers of security cameras, etc that will be a part of it.......

Side Note: When the actress in Hill Street Blues, (Hammill?) bought the Marilyn Monroes house, she reported that it cost her and her husband hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove all the secret hidden cameras and recording devices enclosed in the house, in every single room.....
They had to rip open walls throughout the house, and then pay to have the walls, ceilings, etc replaced.........
Sounds like J Edgar Hoover's FBI work.........................................

[turbinetree]

12. Ah yes the guy that plays the shell game on contractors is going to pay these guys from taxpayers money...........

did they look at what he did with the Polish workers at the Bonwit Teller to build his trump Tower and Trump Taj Mahal casino, Atlantic City...........all they had to do was type in trump stiffing contractors............

[efhmc]

15. I will bet you that pictures will be taken and published no matter what the king decrees.

[kimbutgar]

16. The name of the company has already been out in the internet so he's a little too late with his gag

But speaking of gags I’d love to see tuckfrump gagged asap!

[TygrBright]

17. So when they get mesothelioma they won't be able to tell anyone how? N/T

[GusBob]

18. Its Friday. Find the bars the workers hang out at after work

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too easy

[Captain Zero]

34. It will be the blue collar bars close to

Where they park their work vehicles.

[MattBaggins]

40. Start calling local escorts

They'll have the goods

[twodogsbarking]

19. Will there be golden arches and an ice cream maker that works?

It's going to be as big as a Wal-mart.

[Ocelot II]

27. Will there be a stripper pole and karaoke equipment?

Maybe what's left of the lawn can be used for tractor pulls and monster truck rallies.

[twodogsbarking]

30. Whatever we dream up won't approach reality.

[Johonny]

20. But Obama built a basketball court . . .

Literally there is nothing the GOP can't gaslight.

Personally had Trump gotten congressional approval, and permits and shit, I'd be okay with this. But he didn't and he's not a fucking king. This is destroying part of the historic White House and no one should be okay with that.

[chowder66]

21. The fucking Republicans (including those on the Supreme Court) need to do their fucking jobs and stop him.

[quakerboy]

24. It seems to me that (assuming we are allowed elections in the future) a very in depth investigation needs to be done.

Who were the contractors, and what did they build, and how can it be secured. Because without that, nothing classified or even or remotely sensitive in nature should be done, discussed, or allowed anywhere near this new building.

Id be curious what sort of hardened communications lines and such also went through the area that is now being demolished.

[KS Toronado]

25. I hope some really good computer hackers are keeping track

of all the tRumps bank accounts.

[Lonestarblue]

29. And when the wrecking crew "accidentally" destroys a wall of the main White House, Trump will demolish it, too.

[markodochartaigh]

32. Similar to the way that he is destroying the

Constitution, one part at a time.

[thought crime]

45. Weakened to the point it no longer functions.

[markodochartaigh]

54. Trump and maga

done busted the wheels off of the 'Murican democracy wagon.

[The Madcap]

35. I wonder how much asbestos and mold is in the air around that wreckage

Maybe it'll go to the Oval Office.

[Champp]

36. Republicon OCCULTISTS do their shit in the dark

no accountability, no honesy, no honor

[popsdenver]

37. Simply

just another: The RepubliCONs don't want the truth to be known, just like everything else they are doing behind closed doors, in the shadows, behind smoke and mirrors........

I would bet that we don't see or even know about more than a tenth of what is going on in this corrupt covert administration......

[CountAllVotes]

51. being a stupid 'effer only lasts for so long

The Kingdom is a crumbling!

[Irish_Dem]

52. I knew Trump would play the national security card.

[spanone]

53. Transparency MY ASS.

[Evolve Dammit]

55. Gag, restrain and silence all disagreement or truth at all cost. Rogue, corrupt and

Criminal. It's a crime syndicate.
Garland dropped the ball and here we are.