What is the ‘Event’? And why are tech billionaires seemingly rushing to build Doomsday bunkers? Does any of that relate to Trump and his ‘ballroom’ obsession?
Let’s examine this a little.
The construction of the White House ‘ballroom’ in the East Wing of the historic building has been a subject of contention ever since Trump started enthusing about it last year.
In fact, the President hasn’t shut up about that ballroom for months: it’s almost treated as the most important thing in his presidency – more than the Iran War, the tariffs, the immigration policies or anything else, this ballroom has been Trump’s obsession.
But what the hell has this all really been about?
Trump originally insisted the ballroom was needed for hosting events. Well, how have previous presidents hosted events? Didn’t Obama ever have guests over?
Many have also been appalled by the demolition of historic spaces in the East Wing to make way for what was being viewed as a vanity project.
Also, despite elements of the construction being deemed unlawful, the project has gone ahead.
On May 5th, Senate Republicans proposed to provide an additional $1 billion towards the ballroom project. As PBS notes, ‘It is unclear exactly how the $1 billion would be used, and the amount far exceeds the proposed $400 million for construction of the ballroom…’
Contrary to the administration’s claims that private donors would be paying for the construction, it is now more apparent that taxpayers are being called on.
Moreover, the recent assassination attempt debacle at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Hilton Hotel essentially cannot be separated from the subject of the ballroom: because both Trump himself and scores of his supporters immediately used the dubious assassination incident to promote or justify the ballroom being built.
I expressed uncertainty last week as to whether Cole Allen and the WHCD incident was entirely staged or not: but if the point was to provide fresh justification for the ballroom complex, then it would make some sense.
Let’s note that the odd WHCD incident happened very shortly after a judge blocked Trump from proceeding with the construction.
So the timing of the WHCD incident was definitely relevant.
So, what exactly is being built?
After months and months of ballroom talk, Trump revealed in late March that it wasn’t simply a ballroom that was being constructed, after all.
“The military’s building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction and we’re doing very well,” he told reporters on March 29th. “The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under the military, including from drones and including from any other thing.”
The ballroom essentially just ‘becomes a shed’ for what’s being built underneath? After months of almost obsessive-compulsive talk about the beautiful, magnificent ballroom?
So did Trump ever really care about the ballroom or was it all an act to facilitate the military complex? But no, he genuinely seems to have been obsessed and over the moon about the ballroom itself.
What’s even more curious is that a substantial underground security complex already exists in the White House and has been used for decades.
As a TIME Magazine article explains, ‘Trump’s planned military complex would replace the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC)—a secure underground bunker dating back to World War II that has long been an open secret in Washington, though details about it have largely remained a mystery to the public.’
Didn’t the existing underground facility provide safety enough for previous presidents and administrations?
Concerning the new construction, TIME highlights the ambiguities about what’s going on. ‘Little else is known about the new bunker being constructed, and other members of the Trump Administration have been tight-lipped about the project. In court filings obtained by news outlets, the Secret Service said completing the project was critical but shared few details…’
So is it the Secret Service or the military pushing for the underground complex? Or is it the President himself? Or did they dangle the carrot of a swanky ballroom in front of him to manipulate him?
But why would that even be necessary? Couldn’t they simply have declared that they wanted to construct a secure complex beneath the White House for national security reasons? Would that have been opposed or denied?
It’s all very odd.
What need does this administration in particular have to build such a substantial underground complex in the White House?
There are multiple possibilities that come to mind, whether the speculation is helpful or not.
One suggestion out there is that the administration is preparing to seize power permanently and wants the White House to be comprehensively secure against subsequent attack or unrest.
That would certainly be in keeping with the spirit of the Trump administration. But would the military and the Secret Service really be facilitating or encouraging such a scenario?
Another possibility of course is that some significant disaster or major event is being anticipated. It might relate to war or some anticipated foreign attack. Or to some kind of economic collapse.
Could it even relate to a threat – real or simulated – from outer space? Clearly, 2026 has been marked as a time for ‘disclosure’ type events: the carefully staged ‘UAP’ discussions in both Congress and the media have been paving the way for something to happen soon (for example, as discussed here).
All the psy-ops involving drones and unknown objects recently, Trump’s recent promise to release UFO files, and even the imminent release of Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ movie, all seem to be building to something in unison.
Clearly that ‘ballroom’ and underground complex is needed for something: and there’s been a palpable sense of urgency to the way it’s been done.
If the possibly staged security incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner was genuinely designed to provide fresh impetus for the construction, then clearly they’re desperate to get this thing built.
And again, the question is why: and why now?
And should we view the whole ballroom controversy in the broader context of billionaires and elites building their vast underground complexes or ‘Doomsday bunkers’ in recent years?
This business of the wealthiest people, especially in the tech world, all seeming to have constructed underground mega-secure locations for themselves has become so noticeable that even the BBC covered it some months ago, saying ‘Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?’
What are they all worried about?
An Independent article from last year discusses ‘the paranoia of billionaires convinced that “The Event” is inevitable — whether they imagine it as a deadlier pandemic than Covid, a nuclear war, or an uprising against the wealthy, the details vary. What doesn’t change is their determination to escape it…’
The article features a Ron Hubbard (no, not that Ron Hubbard), who has been involved in designing some of these apparent Doomsday complexes, including the one built for Mark Zuckerberg. Funnily enough, he also claims to have designed a complex for Andrew Tate and his fellow rapist brother Tristan.
Nice to know the Tate brothers will survive the Doomsday Event.
A 2023 WIRED magazine article titled ‘Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound’ tells us ‘Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.’
Despite the scale of the construction, there is also a level of secrecy. As the article says, ‘Nobody working on this project is allowed to talk about what they’re building. Almost anyone who passes compound security—from carpenters to electricians to painters to security guards—is bound by a strict nondisclosure agreement…’
The obvious implication of course is that they don’t care about us, the ordinary people. Whether us little people survive whatever disaster is apparently envisioned, all that matters is the survival of the elites.
As the aforementioned Independent article puts it: ‘In the American imagination, the apocalypse used to be a shared event. Mushroom clouds over the horizon meant you grabbed your kids, maybe a can of peaches, and joined the neighbors in a dim cinderblock fallout shelter until it was safe… Today’s end-times are lonelier, more curated, and vastly more expensive. If you can afford it, survival doesn’t involve huddling with strangers…’
Of course. Why would you want to rough it out with the plebs?
Also, we should note that various underground bunkers and complexes have already been built in the US for some time, some of them the subject of long-standing conspiracy theories of various types: some of it involving human trafficking, some of it involving aliens. I won’t detour into all of that here.
But it’s interesting that, fairly recently, it has emerged that the Israeli billionaire Les Wexner (Jeffrey Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s chief patron and enabler) seems to own most of the State of Ohio, where vast underground complexes allegedly have been built. Epstein/Wexner victim Maria Farmer has claimed that Wexner’s private property has underground tunnel complexes: even that the entire floor of this 10,000 square foot “safe” at his estate could be elevated up or down, leading to a tunnel complex.
What for? Good fucking luck finding out.
I’ve been working on a separate article about Wexner and Epstein, so I’ll leave this for now.
But the point is that there’s clearly something going on with billionaire elites and underground complexes.
So, is this what Trump’s underground complex – which the ballroom is apparently just ‘a shed’ for – is ultimately about? Part of the elites’ survival contingency plans?
It might be as good an explanation as any.
But it’s still unclear. Because the White House already had a secure underground facility (Laura Bush tells a whole story about using it after 9/11). And I assume most governments or leaders have safe, secure locations in place for major emergencies, don’t they? It would be weird if they didn’t.
There’s still a great deal of ambiguity. But it’s scary to think about.
But, you know, if surviving ‘the Event’ or a collapse or the apocalypse or whatever it is means being in the company of the Zuckerbergs, Musks, and Peter Thiels of the world, not to mention the Trumps or the Wexners (and the Tate Brothers, apparently)… I think I’d prefer to perish on the surface world with the rest of the great unwashed.
Wouldn’t most of us?
