A Democratic district attorney just stood at a public event and described a future ceremony to blow up President Trump’s new White House ballroom.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner did not stop with the demolition fantasy. He said he wanted a piece of the wreckage as a paperweight on his desk.

Watch the key portion of Krasner’s remarks here:

NBC10 Philadelphia reported that Krasner delivered the remarks Tuesday during Philadelphia’s annual slavery commemoration at the President’s House site in Old City.

Krasner called President Trump a “pain in the ass” and accused him of embodying hate and ignorance. He then claimed the White House ballroom would not survive beyond the next 10 to 15 years.

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The speech grew out of a separate dispute over historical displays at the President’s House site. Krasner insisted that the memorial and its educational material would remain for decades, then contrasted that future with what he wanted to see happen in Washington.

His most explosive line was direct: the paperweight would be “a piece of the ballroom after we blow it up.”

Krasner quickly added that he meant an “official ceremony.” He proposed selling pieces of the demolished ballroom as paperweights and claimed the proceeds could reimburse taxpayers.

That clarification may describe a future government-authorized demolition. It does not make the spectacle any less remarkable: one of America’s most prominent local prosecutors was openly cheering the destruction of a structure on the White House grounds.

The reaction spread quickly:

Fox News Digital obtained responses from both the White House and the U.S. Secret Service after the video surfaced.

A White House spokesman defended the renovations as necessary work intended to preserve and improve the People’s House for generations. He also said only people consumed by anti-Trump hostility would object to the project.

The administration’s response cast the construction as part of a broader effort to prepare the White House for America’s 250th anniversary. It described President Trump as focused on leaving the complex in stronger condition for future presidents.

The Secret Service told Fox that it investigates anything that could be perceived as a threat to its protectees. The agency declined to discuss protective-intelligence matters.

Krasner framed his language as a future official demolition rather than a plan for an unlawful attack.

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Public officials still know words carry weight—especially when the words are “blow it up” and the location is the White House.

The rhetoric drew another wave of reaction:

The ballroom itself remains the subject of a major court fight. Lower courts had ordered above-ground construction to stop while challengers argued that congressional authorization was required.

On August 21, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an official Supreme Court order staying the lower-court injunction until he or the full Court acts again. Construction may continue for now.

The one-page order is tied to case No. 26A203, National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation. It temporarily blocks enforcement of the April 16 injunction that would have halted above-ground work.

The order does not resolve the underlying fight over presidential authority, congressional approval or private funding. It preserves the construction status quo while the Supreme Court considers the administration’s emergency application.

In that application, the administration described the project as part of an integrated military complex with a secure ballroom space. Government lawyers argued that stopping work would create serious national-security and construction problems.

Krasner, meanwhile, turned the project’s imagined destruction into an applause line.

There is plenty of room for political disagreement over the ballroom. A district attorney talking about blowing it up and collecting souvenirs from the wreckage is something else entirely.

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