Trump inspects new White House helipad construction, says ballroom lawsuit has "no standing"

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So this is the back piece. This won't be revealed. This is the back of the eagle's head. This is the
eagle. Exact of the — you look how fine that's cut. When you see it, you won't even believe it.
And from the air, it looks so beautiful. But this is the back of the piece. And they flip it,
and they put it down. So nobody will see that unless in 400, 500 years they start taking it
apart. So probably nobody will see it, I guess. Actually, I hope nobody ever sees it because
there's only one reason they'd see it. But I think I'd like to sign it, and I'd like to have some of
the main construction guys like yourselves and some of your top guys sign it. We can sign this
whole piece. Then we're going to put the coins — these are special coins we have. We may put a
couple facing up in some area where you have concrete that's wet. I don't know if you have
any of those areas. I'm not sure that you do. But you could put one of these into the concrete
facing up so people see because you're not going to find nice. So they're going to take some of
these coins, which are somewhat different. These are coins that — like I gave to the young man who
— the lifeguard who saved the young boy because he was truly a hero. And these will go like that.
These are three different coins, all different. Like that and like that. They're going to be
flipped. But I think they're so beautiful that if we find a place on this whole big pad,
we could put a few of them facing upward, right? It'd be pretty cool, right?
I'm going to ask some of my people to sign this also. I know I'm supposed to sign it,
but they've done such a good job. It's such an exciting project. You know, it's a
no-story building, but it's as exciting as if you're building a building. And again,
they've wanted this for many, many years. The happiest people are the pilots, as great as they
are. They say it's great not to be landing on wood or on a piece of steel that they put out for
ten minutes. They'd literally put it out and then take it away as soon as — it was very heavy,
and they'd take it away. They don't have to do that anymore.
Okay. I hope this is a good one. This had better be a good one. Even though, in theory,
I don't think — I don't know if anyone's ever going to see it again.
That's a beautiful cut. Hey, maybe we should reverse it. Let it stay up.
I like it better than what's on the other side. That's pretty great, huh? Oh, that's good.
That looks pretty good. I think we should use this side. We're using the wrong side.
We're flipping it. What do you think? Can we use this? Is that good? I'll tell you what's — that's
good. Come on, Brett. Sign this. Any way you want. Better be under my name. No, I'm only —
I'll put it under your name.
Talented guy. Gary, come on. Stop doing that. It's floor construction. Head of floor.
Come on, get your long-term — we have to get your long-term employees.
Come on, Dave. Get over here. Come on over here. That's our fancy. That looks like Don Trump,
Jr. He gives a line. I say, you can't do that.
I'd like to have a couple of the guys in the military. Where are they? What's the best — come
on over. What a job you've done, even though your work has been totally exposed now because of a
stupid lawsuit. These are the military people. They've been unbelievable. I'll tell you,
that's the strongest structure I think ever put up. That structure is the most powerful
because it's needed for bad purpose. It's really bad purpose if they have to ever use it.
But if you look at that — those are called shear walls, and they're of the greatest strength
concrete. And the steel goes in, but that keeps all the steel from twisting and turning. Normally,
you'd never use a thing like that, but for purposes of the drone port and everything else,
we needed it. Come on over here, Todd. Get over here. You think you're going to get away?
This guy's fantastic. Is Dale here? Dale's around here.
So, it's very exciting. Very exciting. And I think we'll be here for a long time. This will
be here long after we're gone. No matter what happens with the world, this is not moving.
This will take any kind of shot. But it's something we really needed badly for the
helicopters. But we get a secondary use, and that's — you can have some beautiful events here,
including the greeting of people from foreign countries. They'll be very impressed. Right now,
they're not impressed. When they see coming in on asphalt, they're not impressed. It was never
very impressive. But they're going to go the opposite. Well, we hope that doesn't happen.
I can't imagine it happening. The lawsuit had — the person had no standing. It was a person
that said she walked along and she didn't like the view, even though nothing was built. A person
that didn't like it and never even saw a rendering of it. We've gotten tremendous architectural
reviews. It's beautiful. The woman has absolutely no standing, according to virtually every — according
to every analyst that I've seen, legal analyst. And it's a lawsuit that should have never been
even allowed to be brought. But hopefully, we'll do very well with it. We had a great ruling from
a very highly respected judge, as you know. And hopefully, the Supreme Court will agree with that.
