Conservative commentator Eric Metaxas is getting mocked online after claiming that God himself put Donald Trump in power so America could finally get… a White House ballroom.
Speaking at Sunday’s Trump-backed “Rededicate 250” prayer event in Washington, D.C., Metaxas delivered a bizarre speech tying Trump’s luxury ballroom obsession to divine destiny.
“The British challenged us again in the war of 1812, burning parts of that city named after George Washington,” Metaxas told the crowd. “They burned parts of the city including the White House, which at that time — if you can believe it — did not yet have a ballroom.”
Then came the punchline.
“Yes, it’s hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand,” Metaxas declared as the audience laughed and applauded. “It’s extraordinary, we only had to wait two hundred years.”
Yes. According to MAGA world, God apparently spent 200 years preparing Donald Trump to install a giant luxury ballroom next to the White House.
Journalist Aaron Rupar shared the clip online and described the event as a “blasphemy fest,” and honestly it’s difficult to argue otherwise. At a time when Americans are struggling with rising costs, housing problems, healthcare chaos, and fears of another economic downturn, Trump’s inner circle is treating a ballroom project like it’s the second coming.
The event itself was part of Trump’s growing America 250 celebration campaign — a massive branding operation filled with patriotic pageantry, culture war theatrics, and increasingly strange displays of loyalty. Ironically, Trump himself didn’t even attend the prayer gathering. Instead, after spending much of Sunday rage-posting on Truth Social, he reportedly went golfing.
Meanwhile, the ballroom project itself is already turning into a political embarrassment. The estimated cost has exploded from roughly $100 million to nearly $400 million, and Republicans recently tried slipping related funding into a massive immigration enforcement bill tied to nearly $1 billion in security spending.
That effort immediately sparked backlash — including from Republicans uneasy about using taxpayer-linked funding while Americans are being told to tighten their belts.
For years Trump promised the ballroom would be privately funded. Now suddenly Congress is being asked to help cover surrounding costs while MAGA influencers portray the project like it’s some kind of holy mission.
Only in Trump-era politics could a luxury ballroom become both a government funding controversy and a religious prophecy at the same time.
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