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Late-night hosts skewered President Trump’s plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, citing a donor list that includes Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Meta Platforms and Hard Rock International. They riffed on a $100 million cost jump to $300 million and cracked that East Wing demolition has become a flash point, even as the White House released donor names. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed criticism as jealousy. The comics also joked about Trump’s idea for a glass bridge to the ballroom and exaggerated the pace and scale of the teardown.

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