{"id":77502,"date":"2026-08-17T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/trump-says-ballroom-is-needed-calling-it-a-security-structure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:56:03","slug":"trump-says-ballroom-is-needed-calling-it-a-security-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/trump-says-ballroom-is-needed-calling-it-a-security-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Ballroom is Needed, Calling it a &#8216;Security Structure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction to proceed on his ballroom after an appeals court ruled he needed congressional authorization to build the complex. Trump is arguing that the ballroom is just a part of what will be a massive underground military complex, saying it\u2019s a \u201cdesperately needed national security structure.\u201d NBC\u2019s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction to proceed on his ballroom after an appeals court ruled he needed congressional authorization to build the complex. Trump is arguing that the ballroom is just a part of what will be a massive underground military complex, saying it\u2019s a \u201cdesperately needed national security &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Says Ballroom is Needed, Calling it a &#8216;Security Structure\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/trump-says-ballroom-is-needed-calling-it-a-security-structure\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Says Ballroom is Needed, Calling it a &#8216;Security Structure\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}