Right on cue, as the last embers of the government shutdown fade away and the Epstein Files matter appears to come to a conclusion with a vote on the House floor, the most viscerally anti-Trump of the Elitist Media nightly newscasts reverts to an old reliable story. Like a dog returning to its vomit, ABC World News Tonight returns to reporting White House ballroom brain rot.
Watch the brief in its entirety, as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Monday, November 17th, 2025:
With the shutdown behind us and the Epstein files about to fade, ABC News has reverted to pushing White House ballroom slop. pic.twitter.com/tXc6SZeg8f
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 18, 2025
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, new images of the demolition of the East Wing at The White House. This is video captured from atop the Washington Monument, showing debris from the East Wing mostly cleared away. Workers now making room for President Trump’s $300 million ballroom.
This brief was the third and final story on the evening’s B-block, the final hard news item before the celebrity stories that populated the C-block, and before the closing “America Strong”, which tonight featured some shameless Disney “corporate synergy”, as the newscast touted Disney’s rebuild of a park burned down in January’s wildfires. This isn’t exactly confident placement here.
The brief serves no purpose other than to further inflame the viewer against the President of the United States. And it is as inane as it is brief. “Workers are now making room for President Trump’s $300 million ballroom”, Muir says, as if there were the possibility that the space might instead be repurposed for a parking lot or an amphitheater.
Among the stories omitted in order to accommodate this slop: Stacey Plaskett being coached by Jeffrey Epstein during the Michael Cohen hearings, Trump shooter Thomas Crooks alleged to be a they/them furry, and the United Nations Security council voting to adopt Trump’s 20-step Gaza peace plan. Instead, ABC runs ballroom voyerism from atop the Washington Monument.
In the absence of news, the Trump-deranged Elitist Media run brain rot.
