{"id":24075,"date":"2025-10-31T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24075\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:59:08","slug":"kamala-harris-goes-on-expletive-laden-rant-about-trumps-donation-funded-ballroom-during-interview-with-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24075\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris goes on expletive-laden rant about Trump&#8217;s donation-funded ballroom during interview with Jon Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/us-news\/kamala-harris-says-biden-didnt-want-that-debate-with-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> attacked President Trump in a foul-mouth rant \u2014 as she melted down over his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/22\/us-news\/entire-white-house-east-wing-will-be-demolished-to-make-way-for-ballroom-as-trump-reveals-new-price-tag-for-the-project\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House ballroom renovations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you f\u2011\u2011king kidding me?\u201d Harris raged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z19lHTlKfOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">on Jon Stewart\u2019s \u201cThe Weekly Show\u201d podcast<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday as she accused Trump of prioritizing the renovations despite the government shutdown threatening the distribution of food aid benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now. Come on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with \u201cDaily Show\u201d host Jon Stewart. YouTube\/The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart<\/p>\n<p>The White House\u2019s East Wing is being demolished to build a ballroom. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to be distracted by, \u2018Oh, does the guy have a big f\u2013king hammer!?\u2019 What about those babies!?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/us-news\/kamala-harris-world-class-pivot-when-asked-about-bidens-frailties-floors-journalist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris<\/a> launched into the unhinged rant after being asked if flailing Democrats could learn something from Trump\u2019s bulldozer-style approach to running the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important we not conflate disruption with destruction,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ballroom project has become a lightning rod of Democratic-led criticism of late.<\/p>\n<p>Trump showed the blueprints from the White House ballroom as it\u2019s being built. AP<\/p>\n<p>The East Wing of the White House under construction on Monday, October 20, 2025. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President spoke with Jon Stewart on October 30, 2025. YouTube\/The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart<\/p>\n<p>The White House has said the expansion, which has an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/20\/us-news\/demolition-begins-on-east-wing-of-white-house-for-trumps-new-250-million-ballroom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$300 million price tag<\/a>, is being financed entirely by private donors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it was Senate Democrats who voted for the 13th time Tuesday to keep the federal government shut \u2014 as Senate Majority Leader John Thune\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/28\/us-news\/dems-keep-americans-from-receiving-snap-benefits-as-they-vote-for-13th-time-to-keep-government-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told The Post<\/a>\u00a0there was an easy fix to ensure millions of Americans won\u2019t lose access to SNAP program food payments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simplest way to end it and the simplest way to make sure that people are getting the food assistance they need is to pick up the bill and give us five votes,\u201d Thune (R-SD) said Tuesday, shortly before the Senate failed to reopen the government in a 54-45 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Kamala Harris attacked President Trump in a foul-mouth rant \u2014 as she melted down over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9235,10811,9,11,10,87,1069,58,5561],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-food-stamps","tag-kamala-harris","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-us-news","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}