Jesse Watters claims Donald Trump told him he is constructing the new White House ballroom as a “monument” to himself — and that he’s doing it “because no one else will.”

The Fox News host recounted the alleged conversation while speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a multiday conservative conference and festival in Phoenix, on Saturday, Dec. 20. A video of the moment has since been posted on X.

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    10 hours ago

    LOL. No matter what happens in American politics, one thing is assured: when Trump is gone, and there’s no longer any benefit to covering up his many crimes, he will be remembered as one of the worst people in history.

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      9 hours ago

      Didn’t work for Ronnie Raygun. I’m still seeing stuff named after that asshole. Up until at least W, he was easily the worst president in living memory anyway.

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        5 hours ago

        You may be right, but that seems unlikely in the digital age.

        With other supreme leaders / authoritarians, they’ve either lived at a time when evidence was physical documents which can be destroyed, or their crimes were committed at a time when they already had a tight grip on the populace and could disappear people for saying the wrong thing.

        Once Trump is dead, all the people presently keeping quiet will no longer have any reason to do so. All these assholes seemed to work on mutual blackmail. You can see this with Epstein, now that he’s dead all the blackmail he collected can be shared because there can’t be any reprisal.

        Additionally, in the current age, history does have many forms and many authors, many of whom are not at risk of being punished by American law.

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      8 hours ago

      … and knowing America’s track record for stupidity … THE WORST PRESIDENT SO FAR!