Trump Makes Shock Admission on Bunker as Health Declines - Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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Michael Popak
When you got a president whose mental and physical decline is being documented almost hourly with bruising and foot dragging and speech problems and an obvious mental decline, do you think this is a good time to tell the world that you're building a secret, top secret medical and hospital facility below the White House? I don't know. We've had a couple of hundred years, 250 years of presidents. We never seem to need a hospital underneath one. And there goes the top secret part because it's been disclosed in a new filing related to the ballroom by the National Park Service. I'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal af. A couple days ago, Donald Trump called a lid on his day about 12 hours early and everybody was speculating, oh, another medical problem. You know, we're seeing some weird, really weird. What's the word I'm looking for? Shit coming out of the presidency. You know, when you, when you threaten your, your adversary in a ongoing war that they need to effing. And he spelled it out, open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. You know he's losing it. Okay. So when he called Lynne on his day 12 hours early, everybody was looking over at Walter Reed Hospital to see maybe he's over there. Now Donald Trump has decided, I got an idea. Let's sneak at hospital under the White House, under the ballroom, away from the prying eyes of the press and the public. That'll do it, right? No. So let me introduce you to exhibit A, that maybe not only Donald Trump is mentally unstable, but his Department of Justice and lawyers around him are too. Because here's what they just filed to try to beg the appellate court that is responsible for the federal courts in D.C. what they told them in their filing. Here we go. And I'm not making this up. This is a direct read. If you don't believe me, you can pick it up in legal AF substack under filings af. Okay, here we go. Likewise, the bomb shelters, hospital and medical area, protective partitioning and top secret military installations, each word capitalized, are built and are ready to be built, installed and in place under the ballroom. We're ready to go. Appellate court, give us a stay and let us take it ultimately to the United States Supreme Court. Well, let's break it down a little bit. Top secret military installation and then listing all of the components of it. Not so top secret anymore. I think that's now take off top secret because you and I are talking about it because of a filing. But I really focused in on hospital and medical area. Now, underneath the White House had, has always been something called the piac, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. And that situation room is sort of part of it. It's really like, think of it like a panic room for a couple of days should something go awry. Okay. It's not where you go. Ultimately there's a couple of mountain layers that the Defense Department and the civil. The civil. The civil governors and agencies and their operations would go. But under the White House, they gave them the piac. Now, Trump apparently is building underneath the ballroom. He's upgrading his emergency planning. Okay, that's legit. Last time the PIAC was done was in 1952. Things have changed. And I get if you've got a giant hole that you've now excavated next to the White House, you might wanna take that opportunity to kind of improve things. In fact, Donald Trump's gone further. Donald Trump has said that it's not the ballroom that he's really concerned about, even though he brags about the 90,000 square feet. Every president has always wanted it. It's cold. It's a golden testament to his, his presidency. But recently on Air Force One, he said it was merely a shed, which is a shed like you go to Home Depot and you pick up a Rubbermaid garden shed for your backyard. Just a shed to put over a giant hole containing top secret military installation. Let's play the clip.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Now, the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom and that's under construction and we're doing very well. So we're ahead of schedule. That's part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes A shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows, you see the big windows, the glass is extremely thick. It's high grade, bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote to you, some of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows. Here's another one. Excuse me. Wait. I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this, but I'm fighting wars and other things. But this is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time. And it's going to be, I think it'll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. It's its highest level.
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Michael Popak
Now, let's go back to the hospital, shall we? I'm glad you're here, by the way. Hit the, hit the subscribe button on Midas, Dutch. Try to do the same thing on legal AF, YouTube as well. All right. So Trump, from the very beginning of his administration, has decided that he's just going to use the magic pixie dust of repeating over and over again national security, national security, everything. We're at war, everything's an emergency, everything's national security. Right. Because he figured out that under the Constitution and under this Supreme Court, the more he says that, the more he can expand his presidential, presidential powers beyond, to the, to their outer limits. And he's looking for the outer limits of everything that he does. And so everything is national security. Right. It's not just a ballroom. Ballroom's a shed. It covers an elaborate layer and labyrinth of top secret military installations. But why the hospital? Yeah, I mean, I get he's going to be, you know, late 80s by the time he gets done with this term. But shouldn't we know about his mental and physical incapacity? I mean, you've got a president who foot drags, who can't seem to walk a straight line, who never can't, can't stick to a script, says weird stuff out loud, seems to be in the throes of dementia. I mean, let's just call it for what it is. I'm not the only one that have said, has said that. So doesn't it concern you that there's now a hospital, or in his words, hospital and medical area being built underneath the White House, so now he can just transit back and forth to there. Right. Instead of going to Walter Reed Hospital. So if he's got some sort of medical condition, mental, physical or otherwise we wouldn't know about it. I think that's what's really going on here, don't you? Then they repeat just for, I guess so our enemies know exactly how they should plan. They repeat the following not once but twice. They say as part of the top secret military installation there is protective missile resistant steel columns, beams, drone proof roofing material, bullet, ballistic and blast proof glass all are there. They repeat the exact same phrase almost verbatim on the second page. That it's been fortified for security reasons with steel bullet, ballistic and blast proof glass, drone proof roofing materials. We know that time is of the essence with an exclamation mark. Wow. In fact, Donald Trump even revealed most of this during a press conference, which I think once again shows that he's in the, in the beginnings or the middles of some sort of deep psychological problem. Play the clip. And also a judge just ordered him
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to stop construction ballroom or are you planning to stop?
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Well, we'll appeal that, but it's not, I don't know, it's basically, I mean I wrote a part of his opinion, but basically he's saying I need congressional approval. And he's so wrong. This is being financed privately. It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies, very rich people. So that for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom here. We're going to have the finest ballroom, I believe anywhere in the world. And he said we need congressional approval. Well, they don't get congressional approval from the White House when they do things. They don't. Especially when you don't. We didn't ask for any tax money. We have no tax. This is taxpayer free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents. And I see right here, I just wrote it out. He said we need congressional approval. Well, we've built many things at the White House over the years. They don't get congressional approval when they build in the White House. It's totally separate. And especially when it's a donation. I mean the ballroom is a donation.
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Michael Popak
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So right on time, they're seeking a stay for the appellate court. They're asking the appellate court to issue the stay or at the very least issue it for 14 extra days so that they have time to run to the United States Supreme Court. So they're going to lob this hand grenade into the Supreme Court, who would love to leave on summer vacation, about whether the president has the right, without congressional approval, if he takes private money to tear down and rebuild the White House. That's their argument. There's no other way to put it. You know, they say everything that happens at the White House, the current occupant of the White House has the right to remodel, rebuild, reconstruct. That's just not true. It's not true under the statutes. It's not true under historical precedent. It's not true under prior Trump administration. They replaced a fence once in 2019, took them nine months and they got congressional approval. So maybe a 90,000 square foot shed with over a major military, top secret military installation, including A hospital and medical area. Maybe you got to go to Congress for that. What do you think? We'll see what the Supreme Court says about it. I'd read to you from it, but there's really not much more of their argument. I mean, their major argument is that the National Trust, which is the congressionally created entity that's the plaintiff, doesn't have standing, doesn't have the ability to bring this lawsuit because it doesn't have real injury. I think they're wrong about that. Somebody has to be able to bring this type of lawsuit. Yeah, I'd love to see Congress rush into court, but we're not gonna see Congress versus the president in court proceedings until Congress has turned over to the Democrats at the midterms. So in the meantime, yes, the National Trust, representing the people. Not just what they say, which is one public critic of the building. No, you mean the public, which is 65 to 70% against what Donald Trump is doing now. They say, well, it's so late that he brought that. Judge Leon issued the injunction. We already did the excavation of the. Of the foundation area and made a giant hole. Sometimes I feel like I'm watching Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. I mean, I feel like I'm watching George C. Scott as that crazy general, you know? Well, but they're going to see the giant map. The Russians, you can't let them in their situation room. They'll see the big map. You know, they made a giant hole. I get it. This is not our problem. And what Leon. Judge Leon said is cover the hole. You know, I get that there's national security issues involved, but I didn't tell you to make the giant hole. In fact, I told you if you're. You're proceeding at your own risk. If you continue with the building, you might have to tear it down. And that's where we are right now. You know, you don't get rewarded because in the middle of the night, you knocked over the East Wing on purpose, demolished it, and started building your ballroom without any approval. And then they go, see, we gotta finish. No, there is buildings in New York that have been ordered torn down in New York City because people did exactly the same thing. It's obvious that Donald Trump just wants to try to get away with it and hope that we don't notice. I mean, he's so in love with the ballroom. He already has a model of it, apparently, that he wants to install a replica of it at his new Trump condominium. Presidential library, thing of 50 stories high in Miami that he's so he's really the Shed makes an appearance in the new video about about the Trump library. So we're going to cover this all. Next thing you'll hear from me is what the appellate court does about this motion and whether they deny the motion and force Donald Trump to run to the United States Supreme Court. The place he should be running is the place that Judge Leon told him to run, which is to Congress. Go get approval from Congress. There's still time, he said. But you see, Donald Trump can't get any bill passed in Congress, you know, through feckless Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House maga, his slim lead in the House and virtually in the Senate through filibuster. So, you know, he's really stuck. If they don't declare that the president has the power to knock over and rebuild the White House at the court level, he's screwed, you know. So you better cover up that giant hole. I'm Michael Popak. You're here on Midas Touch. Go over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit the free subscribe button. Until my next report, this is Michael. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the substack. 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Episode: Trump Makes Shock Admission on Bunker as Health Declines
Date: April 7, 2026
Hosts: Michael Popok (lead), Ben Meiselas, Karen Friedman Agnifilo (not present in this episode segment)
Platform: MeidasTouch Network

Episode Overview

This episode focuses on startling new disclosures regarding Donald Trump's construction of a secret "hospital and medical area"—effectively a bunker—beneath the White House ballroom. The discussion also delves into legal filings that made details about the complex public, the implications for presidential power, and serious concerns raised around Trump's mental and physical acuity.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s Health and a Secret White House Hospital

Theme: The White House has historically had secure spaces (the PIAC—Presidential Emergency Operations Center) for brief emergencies, but never a full medical facility. New legal filings reveal Trump is secretly building a hospital/medical area under the East Wing ballroom, raising questions about both purpose and transparency.
Trump's Health: The hosts scrutinize Trump’s visible decline—citing foot-dragging, speech problems, and what they characterize as cognitive lapses.
Quote:

“You’ve got a president whose mental and physical decline is being documented almost hourly... Is this a good time to tell the world you’re building a top secret hospital under the White House?”
— Michael Popok [03:34]

2. “Top Secret” Plans Exposed by Legal Filings

Context: Details of the underground complex have become public not via leaks, but through a bungled court filing by Trump’s lawyers, undermining claims of secrecy.
Filing Details:

"The bomb shelters, hospital and medical area, protective partitioning and top secret military installations... are built and are ready to be built, installed and in place under the ballroom. We’re ready to go.”
— Michael Popok, reading from court filing [04:32]
- Repetitive details in filings: missile-resistant columns, drone-proof roofing, blast-proof glass—repeated verbatim on successive pages.

3. Trump’s Public Admission

Direct Admission: Trump, while defending the controversial construction, downplayed the ballroom as merely a “shed” over the real project—an underground military complex.
Quote (TRUMP):

“The military is building a big complex under the ballroom... it’s under construction and we’re doing very well. So we’re ahead of schedule. That’s part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under—the military, including from drones and… the glass on the windows... is extremely thick, bulletproof glass.”
— Donald Trump (audio clip quoted) [07:56]

4. Legal Arguments Over Congressional Approval

Key Issue: Trump’s team argues the president can reconstruct or add to the White House without congressional approval, especially since the money is “privately donated.”
Quote (TRUMP):

“This is being financed privately. It’s a donation being given by companies, very rich companies, very rich people… We’re going to have the finest ballroom, I believe, anywhere in the world. And he said we need congressional approval. Well, they don’t get congressional approval from the White House when they do things... Especially when it’s a donation. I mean, the ballroom is a donation.”
— Donald Trump (audio clip quoted) [11:55]
Host’s Analysis:
- This argument is dismissed as unsupported by precedent. Even minor WH upgrades have required congressional sign-off (see fence upgrade, 2019).
- National Trust (a historic preservation group) has standing for the lawsuit—a necessary check when congressional oversight is, for now, unlikely.

5. Broader Implications: Presidential Power and Secrecy

Security Blanket:
- Popok suggests the real reason for the underground hospital is to shield ailing presidents from public view, avoiding visible Walter Reed visits—potentially hiding serious health crises from both public and global adversaries.
- Repetition of the same “national security” language in filings reflects the administration’s overreliance on that rationale to expand executive authority.
International Ramifications:

“I mean, you’ve got a president who foot drags, who can’t seem to walk a straight line, who... seems to be in the throes of dementia. So doesn’t it concern you that there’s now a hospital… being built underneath the White House?”
— Michael Popok [09:44]

6. Judge’s Response & Legal Strategy

Federal Judge’s Injunction:
- Judge Leon (a Bush appointee) blocked the ballroom project; Trump’s team immediately sought an appellate stay and pledged to run to the Supreme Court if needed.
- Judge Leon’s order is described by Popok as “eye-rolling,” using 18 exclamation marks—matching the almost trolling tone of Trump’s filings.
Likelihood of Success:
- Popok doubts the courts, especially at the Supreme Court, will grant a blanket right for a president to demolish or drastically alter the White House using private money without oversight.
Precedent Invoked:

“You don’t get rewarded because in the middle of the night, you knocked over the East Wing... and started building your ballroom without any approval. And then they go, ‘See, we gotta finish!’ No.”
— Michael Popok [16:53]

7. Public & Political Constraints

Congressional Realities:
- Trump can’t pass a bill through the divided Congress, hence his efforts to circumvent legislative oversight.
Public Opinion:
- "The public... is 65 to 70% against what Donald Trump is doing now.” [15:17]
- The “shed” (ballroom) is also now featured in Trump’s plans for his Miami “presidential library/condominium complex.”

Memorable Quotes & Moments

Trump's Gaffe:
“It’s a shed… just a shed to put over a giant hole containing a top secret military installation…” — Michael Popok [07:09]
On Secrecy:
“Not so top secret anymore. I think that’s now—take off ‘top secret’—because you and I are talking about it because of a filing.” — Michael Popok [05:24]
On Legal Tactics:
“Everything’s national security. He figured out that under the Constitution and under this Supreme Court, the more he says that, the more he can expand presidential powers to their outer limits.” — Michael Popok [09:16]
Popok’s Satirical Analogy:
“Sometimes I feel like I’m watching Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove... You can’t let the Russians in the situation room, they’ll see the big map!” — Michael Popok [16:08]

Important Timestamps

03:34 – Popok introduces the filing—Trump’s bunker plans revealed, discussion of Trump’s health decline.
04:32 – Reading from the court filing exposing new details about the “top secret” complex.
07:56 – Trump’s own words on the “ballroom as a shed” and the construction beneath it.
09:04 – Popok analyzes the implications of building a hospital under the White House.
11:55 – Trump addresses the judge’s construction halt and Congressional authorization.
16:08 – Popok likens the drama to “Dr. Strangelove”; concerns about accountability.
17:40-18:00 – Political analysis: why Congress won’t intervene and public opposition.
19:05-20:22 – Closing commentary on Trump’s legal strategies and what comes next.

Summary Takeaway

This episode dissects Trump’s highly secretive (and now very public) efforts to construct a fortified underground hospital and command complex below the White House, using legal self-inflicted disclosures as a jumping-off point to critique both his physical/mental fitness and penchant for expanding presidential authority. The hosts argue the effort is both a symptom and symbol of Trump’s declining transparency, reliance on dubious legal arguments, and the unpredictable intersection of politics, health, and national security.

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Michael Popak
When you got a president whose mental and physical decline is being documented almost hourly with bruising and foot dragging and speech problems and an obvious mental decline, do you think this is a good time to tell the world that you're building a secret, top secret medical and hospital facility below the White House? I don't know. We've had a couple of hundred years, 250 years of presidents. We never seem to need a hospital underneath one. And there goes the top secret part because it's been disclosed in a new filing related to the ballroom by the National Park Service. I'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal af. A couple days ago, Donald Trump called a lid on his day about 12 hours early and everybody was speculating, oh, another medical problem. You know, we're seeing some weird, really weird. What's the word I'm looking for? Shit coming out of the presidency. You know, when you, when you threaten your, your adversary in a ongoing war that they need to effing. And he spelled it out, open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. You know he's losing it. Okay. So when he called Lynne on his day 12 hours early, everybody was looking over at Walter Reed Hospital to see maybe he's over there. Now Donald Trump has decided, I got an idea. Let's sneak at hospital under the White House, under the ballroom, away from the prying eyes of the press and the public. That'll do it, right? No. So let me introduce you to exhibit A, that maybe not only Donald Trump is mentally unstable, but his Department of Justice and lawyers around him are too. Because here's what they just filed to try to beg the appellate court that is responsible for the federal courts in D.C. what they told them in their filing. Here we go. And I'm not making this up. This is a direct read. If you don't believe me, you can pick it up in legal AF substack under filings af. Okay, here we go. Likewise, the bomb shelters, hospital and medical area, protective partitioning and top secret military installations, each word capitalized, are built and are ready to be built, installed and in place under the ballroom. We're ready to go. Appellate court, give us a stay and let us take it ultimately to the United States Supreme Court. Well, let's break it down a little bit. Top secret military installation and then listing all of the components of it. Not so top secret anymore. I think that's now take off top secret because you and I are talking about it because of a filing. But I really focused in on hospital and medical area. Now, underneath the White House had, has always been something called the piac, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. And that situation room is sort of part of it. It's really like, think of it like a panic room for a couple of days should something go awry. Okay. It's not where you go. Ultimately there's a couple of mountain layers that the Defense Department and the civil. The civil. The civil governors and agencies and their operations would go. But under the White House, they gave them the piac. Now, Trump apparently is building underneath the ballroom. He's upgrading his emergency planning. Okay, that's legit. Last time the PIAC was done was in 1952. Things have changed. And I get if you've got a giant hole that you've now excavated next to the White House, you might wanna take that opportunity to kind of improve things. In fact, Donald Trump's gone further. Donald Trump has said that it's not the ballroom that he's really concerned about, even though he brags about the 90,000 square feet. Every president has always wanted it. It's cold. It's a golden testament to his, his presidency. But recently on Air Force One, he said it was merely a shed, which is a shed like you go to Home Depot and you pick up a Rubbermaid garden shed for your backyard. Just a shed to put over a giant hole containing top secret military installation. Let's play the clip.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Now, the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom and that's under construction and we're doing very well. So we're ahead of schedule. That's part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes A shed for what's being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing. The glass on the windows, you see the big windows, the glass is extremely thick. It's high grade, bulletproof glass. So all of the windows are bulletproof. I think the Times wrote to you, some of the windows are fake. We have no fake windows. Here's another one. Excuse me. Wait. I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this, but I'm fighting wars and other things. But this is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time. And it's going to be, I think it'll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. It's its highest level.
[09:05]
Michael Popak
Now, let's go back to the hospital, shall we? I'm glad you're here, by the way. Hit the, hit the subscribe button on Midas, Dutch. Try to do the same thing on legal AF, YouTube as well. All right. So Trump, from the very beginning of his administration, has decided that he's just going to use the magic pixie dust of repeating over and over again national security, national security, everything. We're at war, everything's an emergency, everything's national security. Right. Because he figured out that under the Constitution and under this Supreme Court, the more he says that, the more he can expand his presidential, presidential powers beyond, to the, to their outer limits. And he's looking for the outer limits of everything that he does. And so everything is national security. Right. It's not just a ballroom. Ballroom's a shed. It covers an elaborate layer and labyrinth of top secret military installations. But why the hospital? Yeah, I mean, I get he's going to be, you know, late 80s by the time he gets done with this term. But shouldn't we know about his mental and physical incapacity? I mean, you've got a president who foot drags, who can't seem to walk a straight line, who never can't, can't stick to a script, says weird stuff out loud, seems to be in the throes of dementia. I mean, let's just call it for what it is. I'm not the only one that have said, has said that. So doesn't it concern you that there's now a hospital, or in his words, hospital and medical area being built underneath the White House, so now he can just transit back and forth to there. Right. Instead of going to Walter Reed Hospital. So if he's got some sort of medical condition, mental, physical or otherwise we wouldn't know about it. I think that's what's really going on here, don't you? Then they repeat just for, I guess so our enemies know exactly how they should plan. They repeat the following not once but twice. They say as part of the top secret military installation there is protective missile resistant steel columns, beams, drone proof roofing material, bullet, ballistic and blast proof glass all are there. They repeat the exact same phrase almost verbatim on the second page. That it's been fortified for security reasons with steel bullet, ballistic and blast proof glass, drone proof roofing materials. We know that time is of the essence with an exclamation mark. Wow. In fact, Donald Trump even revealed most of this during a press conference, which I think once again shows that he's in the, in the beginnings or the middles of some sort of deep psychological problem. Play the clip. And also a judge just ordered him
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Podcast Host
to stop construction ballroom or are you planning to stop?
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Well, we'll appeal that, but it's not, I don't know, it's basically, I mean I wrote a part of his opinion, but basically he's saying I need congressional approval. And he's so wrong. This is being financed privately. It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies, very rich people. So that for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom here. We're going to have the finest ballroom, I believe anywhere in the world. And he said we need congressional approval. Well, they don't get congressional approval from the White House when they do things. They don't. Especially when you don't. We didn't ask for any tax money. We have no tax. This is taxpayer free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents. And I see right here, I just wrote it out. He said we need congressional approval. Well, we've built many things at the White House over the years. They don't get congressional approval when they build in the White House. It's totally separate. And especially when it's a donation. I mean the ballroom is a donation.
[12:58]
Michael Popak
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So right on time, they're seeking a stay for the appellate court. They're asking the appellate court to issue the stay or at the very least issue it for 14 extra days so that they have time to run to the United States Supreme Court. So they're going to lob this hand grenade into the Supreme Court, who would love to leave on summer vacation, about whether the president has the right, without congressional approval, if he takes private money to tear down and rebuild the White House. That's their argument. There's no other way to put it. You know, they say everything that happens at the White House, the current occupant of the White House has the right to remodel, rebuild, reconstruct. That's just not true. It's not true under the statutes. It's not true under historical precedent. It's not true under prior Trump administration. They replaced a fence once in 2019, took them nine months and they got congressional approval. So maybe a 90,000 square foot shed with over a major military, top secret military installation, including A hospital and medical area. Maybe you got to go to Congress for that. What do you think? We'll see what the Supreme Court says about it. I'd read to you from it, but there's really not much more of their argument. I mean, their major argument is that the National Trust, which is the congressionally created entity that's the plaintiff, doesn't have standing, doesn't have the ability to bring this lawsuit because it doesn't have real injury. I think they're wrong about that. Somebody has to be able to bring this type of lawsuit. Yeah, I'd love to see Congress rush into court, but we're not gonna see Congress versus the president in court proceedings until Congress has turned over to the Democrats at the midterms. So in the meantime, yes, the National Trust, representing the people. Not just what they say, which is one public critic of the building. No, you mean the public, which is 65 to 70% against what Donald Trump is doing now. They say, well, it's so late that he brought that. Judge Leon issued the injunction. We already did the excavation of the. Of the foundation area and made a giant hole. Sometimes I feel like I'm watching Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. I mean, I feel like I'm watching George C. Scott as that crazy general, you know? Well, but they're going to see the giant map. The Russians, you can't let them in their situation room. They'll see the big map. You know, they made a giant hole. I get it. This is not our problem. And what Leon. Judge Leon said is cover the hole. You know, I get that there's national security issues involved, but I didn't tell you to make the giant hole. In fact, I told you if you're. You're proceeding at your own risk. If you continue with the building, you might have to tear it down. And that's where we are right now. You know, you don't get rewarded because in the middle of the night, you knocked over the East Wing on purpose, demolished it, and started building your ballroom without any approval. And then they go, see, we gotta finish. No, there is buildings in New York that have been ordered torn down in New York City because people did exactly the same thing. It's obvious that Donald Trump just wants to try to get away with it and hope that we don't notice. I mean, he's so in love with the ballroom. He already has a model of it, apparently, that he wants to install a replica of it at his new Trump condominium. Presidential library, thing of 50 stories high in Miami that he's so he's really the Shed makes an appearance in the new video about about the Trump library. So we're going to cover this all. Next thing you'll hear from me is what the appellate court does about this motion and whether they deny the motion and force Donald Trump to run to the United States Supreme Court. The place he should be running is the place that Judge Leon told him to run, which is to Congress. Go get approval from Congress. There's still time, he said. But you see, Donald Trump can't get any bill passed in Congress, you know, through feckless Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House maga, his slim lead in the House and virtually in the Senate through filibuster. So, you know, he's really stuck. If they don't declare that the president has the power to knock over and rebuild the White House at the court level, he's screwed, you know. So you better cover up that giant hole. I'm Michael Popak. You're here on Midas Touch. Go over to Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit the free subscribe button. Until my next report, this is Michael. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the substack. 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