{"id":30462,"date":"2026-08-22T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30462"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:51:45","slug":"epstein-ballroom-roberts-issues-stay-construction-continues-as-trump-fumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/22\/epstein-ballroom-roberts-issues-stay-construction-continues-as-trump-fumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">EPSTEIN BALLROOM:<\/span> Roberts issues stay, construction continues as Trump fumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to Donald to screw up another tiny victory. Almost immediately after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/21\/supreme-court-says-trump-can-continue-ballroom-work-it-weighs-case\/\">Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that construction of Trump&#8217;s tacky Epstein Ballroom could continue<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-ballroom-scotus-win-message_n_6a88b4f2e4b02b0e9648459b?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">Trump (or maybe Natalie Harp?) spewed an error-filled victory dance message on Goof Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By way of reminder: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/supreme-court-chief-justice-allows-work-on-trumps-400m-white-house-ballroom-to-continue-for-now\">the architectural atrocity was never approved by Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to Donald to screw up another tiny victory\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}