Donald Trump's golf club seeks approval for 11,330-square-foot expansion, and it has little to do with golf

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Source: msn



Story by Sneha Abraham • 7h

A golf club applying for a building expansion is not unusual. But when the club belongs to the sitting U.S. president, and the addition is not a fairway, the application is anything but routine.

Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., has filed an application to add an 11,330-square-foot ballroom and covered rooftop terrace to its clubhouse.

A Golfweek report published on June 24 stated that the Bedminster Township Land Use Board will discuss an application from Lamington Farm Club LLC, the company that runs Trump National Golf Club on Lamington Road, at its August 13 meeting.

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The project must meet several requirements before it can move ahead. According to Golfweek, a review by Boswell, the township’s engineering firm, found that the proposed ballroom expansion would increase sewage flow and require approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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The application for the Bedminster project comes at a time when Trump’s separate ballroom project at the White House is also dealing with legal and financial issues....................

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Another Trump ballroom.

Construction cannot begin until the permits are approved, and that process could take between nine and 12 months. The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility near the tennis courts on its property.

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Construction cannot begin until the permits are approved, and that process could take between nine and 12 months. The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility near the tennis courts on its property.

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— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T09:54:28.169Z

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. We ARE NOT FU@#ing Paying for it!

He's going to want a bunker down there too isn't he?

[Lonestarblue]

5. Yep. And he probably plans to entertain there at taxpayer expense.

[ananda]

14. Best little whorehouse...

...

[Callie1979]

32. Just like Mar A Lago; he's made MILLIONS off of US by hosting there.

And overcharging for EVERYTHING. all the rooms rented, food sold, etc, ALL billed to the taxpayers. Almost EVERY weekend.

[3Hotdogs]

7. At least we'll know, under which cement structure Ivana is buried.

[GiqueCee]

2. Trump wants his name on everything...

... They should name lethal virus after him, then his name will live on in the infamy it deserves.

[Goonch]

3. ;-{) THEN THIS

[3Hotdogs]

8. This is not accurate. There needs to be a fat slob on a green, along with the golf cart ON the green.

[KS Toronado]

9. Can't believe he left the clubhouse white instead of gold.

[Goonch]

25. ;-{) Case is on Supreme Court Docket

[AverageOldGuy]

4. Construction cannot begin until all permits are issued

And of course Trump will wait for permits.

[dave99]

6. This is New Jersey, so they slow walk it

till he dies.

[electric_blue68]

40. Hopefully!

[Vinca]

10. The must be Trump's plan B for his eternal shrine. If they don't stuff the corpse under glass and display it

forever and ever and ever in the White House grand ballroom, they can always stick him next to the 9th hole.

[The Madcap]

11. What is it about ballrooms with this guy?

It's not the 1920's anymore, but it sure is looking like the run-up to 1929.

Who does he think he is, Fred Astaire?

[Bengus81]

13. Members of the Post family must talk to him at night

[Bayard]

27. We've seen him dance

[Callie1979]

33. OH GOD WHY

[calimary]

31. I was just wondering the same thing.

What is it about ballrooms with this guy?

[Attilatheblond]

42. He thinks his tux is slimming

and he likes events where women are in strapless gowns

[IcyPeas]

12. Are.You.Fuckkking.Kidding.Me???

[peppertree]

26. America's Mobutu

Mobutu was, as you may know, the longtime (and CIA-installed) dictator of what's now the DR Congo.

Already a poor country, he drove what was then Zaire into the ground by basically treating the central bank as his own piggy bank - and generous U.S. and French aid as his personal payments.

And what money didn't end up in European banks and estates, it ended up paying for the construction (using costly European contractors) of several mansions scattered throughout Zaire - one of the largest countries in the world.

One looked like a Chinese temple in the Forbidden City, and another included a runway big enough for a Concord.

Few dared complain.

That's Cheeto's model of governance: that of a craven African dictator.

[electric_blue68]

41. Woah! I do remember the name.

Tangential...
I once saw The Concord take off from JFK airport via binoculars while at my then job up on the NE 73rd flr of South Tower 2 in '80, or '81.
Beautiful, like a gigantic white bird!

[peppertree]

43. As Donald Fagen put it: '90 minutes, from New York to Paris'....But for that little thing called the sonic boom...

[electric_blue68]

44. Yeah.... THAT!

[Tanuki]

15. After he leaves office, he will still be entitled to Secret Service protection.

I can only imagine the additional taxpayer burden such an expansion will entail.

[moonshinegnomie]

17. congress can and shoul remove it

[Bengus81]

24. As is Joe Biden. You can later decline it as Biden did as VP

but it's been that way for decades.

[Tanuki]

38. Joe Biden didn't add an 11,330 ft ballroom to his residence.

I don't begrudge a former president basic protection. It's the massive year-round drain on secret service resources and tax dollars that this post-presidency private vanity project will entail that I find intolerable.

[Callie1979]

34. Thats why he only lived at his resorts when he was out of office; the grift.

Imagine how many rooms are rented to SS agents, staff etc.
ALL far over priced.

[moonshinegnomie]

16. trump is a convicted felon

his golf clubs should all lose their liquor licenses

[Callie1979]

35. oh, HE doesnt own them. A COMPANY does!

[Bristlecone]

18. Is it possible that his entire WH project is an effort to sweep the costs of his NJ ballroom under the rug?

I’d guess that the contractors who do the WH construction will also work on this project. Miraculously the costs for his Bedminster construction will be almost nothing.

“ They did such an unbelievable job on the WH that….”

[Tanuki]

39. I'm sure that's why the inflated no-bid reflecting pool contract

went to his donor/Palm Beach neighbor/fellow federal felon. The extra money would cover free pool services at Maralago and Doral, at taxpayer expense.

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. At least we know where the Whitehouse "ballroom" overcosts will be used.

[RazorbackExpat]

20. What is this dude's obsession with freaking ballrooms???

Nobody gives a flying fukk about his ballrooms, except maybe fellow pedos

[FakeNoose]

21. He's going to build his own ballroom! This is nuts ....

Or ... maybe he's going to bury another ex-wife?!? ....

[chouchou]

22. "The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility"

WTF ? Is Donald going to overload the present sewage building? Jesus Christ!!

[The Madcap]

28. The answer is "Yes."

His Depends can only hold so much. It will be a toxic waste site on par with Chernobyl.

[kacekwl]

23. So that is why the WH ballroom

is so over budget, now we can pay for this ballroom with the money trump embezzled.

[Pinback]

29. Room for more burial plots?

Too risky to just dump your enemies' bodies in the Loxahatchee River wearing a cement overcoat.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Trump wants to be the belle of the ball

[The Madcap]

36. The Great Fatsby

[OldBaldy1701E]

37. Hey, MSN...

Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., has filed an application to add an 11,330-square-foot ballroom and covered rooftop terrace to its clubhouse.

You misspelled 'bunker'.

(You all know damned well what he is doing. It is what they are all doing. As soon as sociopolitical attitudes shift away from them enough, they will all be going into hiding. And, still being the most damaging influence on the rest of us. And, we will just keep on letting them... won't we?)

[Faux pas]

45. I thought maybe it

was gonna be for burial plots