Now You’re Paying for Trump’s Fancy Bowling Alley, Too

By

Margaret Hartmann,

senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012

The bowling alley, right after Melania’s 2019 renovation.

Nailing down what exactly Donald Trump is doing to the White House and who’s paying for it has been surprisingly difficult. Most notably, Americans only realized the president was leveling the whole East Wing to build a White House ballroom after construction vehicles started ripping into it. And in yesterday’s Truth Social post celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court allowing construction to continue, Trump claimed he’s building the ballroom “at no cost to the American Taxpayer.” In June, the Washington Post reported that project summaries actually put the overall cost to taxpayers at about $307 million.