Did you ever use the word Ballroom in real life?

[Starbeach]

I don't think there's a sharper disconnect between the GOP and the country than the now do-or-die rescue of "The Ballroom."

I've never used that word in real life, nor have most Americans. The mighty American brand of zest and spark has devolved to the desperate squeal for "The Ballroom."

Our "Leader" is transfixed by his "Ballroom," an ugly appendage pasted onto our revered White House. A giant boondoggle of self-regard, cause he's just not loved enough!

Can a country die from embarrassment?

[Emile]

1. Sounds like something a KING would want

in his castle.

[magicarpet]

12. In the back seat of our chauffeur driven Rolls Royce,...

... while on the way to the airport to board our private jet, as we travel to our chateaux on the coast of France... we often discuss our huge ballrooms constructed and added on to our ten mansions a round the world.

A tin roofed tool shed for beer parties is way below the status to which we are generally accustomed. Access to a private ballroom for dancing and entertaining is more to our style of things.

[efhmc]

35. Interesting but I am guessing "No" is the answer.

[Justice matters.]

36. Pedo the felon sure acts like one.

Like a violent, vengeful and ignorant one.

[usonian]

2. The average person has no want for such a thing, matter of fact, I'd say, some disdain.

And some people have absolutely no regard for fancy surroundings.



I asked for "real-people-friendly" alternatives and response is slow.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221203299

One can't just leave that wreckage there, so let's US build SOMETHING better.

PLEASE?

[Intractable]

3. My wife likes ballroom dancing.

It's not as formal as it sounds.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Only to the extent

that I discuss the roominess of my drawers. Trying to recreate the palace of Versailles, IMO, is the distilled essence of ‘boo-gee’ that precipitated the French Revolution.

[multigraincracker]

11. Yep, when tight jeans were the fashion in the 70s.

[LeftInTX]

5. It's Trump's bawlroom, not a ballroom

And I've never heard of an ultra secure ballroom.

[Goonch]

6. ;-{) An aerial view of the construction site for President Trump's planned ballroom.

Carl HulseMichael Gold

By Carl Hulse and Michael Gold

Reporting from the Capitol
April 27, 2026

Congressional Republicans are escalating their efforts to authorize the building of President Trump’s planned ballroom at the White House in the aftermath of the attack on a press gala in Washington on Saturday night that exposed security vulnerabilities..........
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/trump-ballroom-white-house-dinner-shooting.html

[MineralMan]

7. Sure, but I'm old.

We had "ballroom dancing" classes in Junior High gym class once a week. Learned to dance and about etiquette, too.

[chelsea0011]

20. Same here

Very large dance hall that was referred to the ballroom in city I grew up in.

[MineralMan]

21. Yes. A very formal term, really.

We don't really have "balls" any longer. They were an entertainment from a different time.

[oldsoldierfadingfast]

39. We did too ...

in prep for the Jr./Sr. proms.

[MineralMan]

46. I think it was for more than that.

Clearly, in my school at least, they were making an effort to introduce the concept of boys and girls treating each other with respect. In 7th and 8th grades, the kids are 12 and 13 years old, mostly. While most of the girls were already in the throes of puberty, most of the boys were not. Still, teaching both how best to behave in social settings seemed important to the school.

Mostly, it worked, I think. I got the point right away. For me, it was clear that those girls who were all taller than I was were going to be an important part of my life soon. I knew that, somehow. So, I really welcomed the idea of learning how to behave and be a nice guy. So, I learned to dance. I learned how to be polite. Even though I wasn't really that interested, I knew that I soon would be. So I listened and learned.

It paid off. I was never at a loss for what to do in social situations where romance was a possibility. I had paid attention and I got along just fine with those girls, once I was taller than they were and wanting to get closer to them.

So, those dancing classes were a good idea, I think.

[Happy Hoosier]

8. We have a largish room...

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... over the garage that we jokingly refer to as the "ballroom."

[murielm99]

17. We have an interesting area of historic homes

in my small community. Some of them are still occupied by family descendants. Some have become bed and breakfasts and that sort of thing. None of them are decaying and decrepit. Some of the occupants are Democrats. I can count of them to vote and to contribute financially. One of the ladies served on our library board. She has a large ballroom on the third floor of her well-preserved home. Her kids and grandkids refer to it as the basketball court. That is how they use it. They play kickball up there, too.

[Totally Tunsie]

29. "Many people" today call that a FROG:

Finished (or Family) Room Over Garage

[AfternoonJoe]

9. Only when...

Only when singing a certain song by AC/DC

[Srkdqltr]

10. My quilting lady friends wondered why trump needs ballroom as he doesn't have any.

[mwmisses4289]

37. !!

[karynnj]

13. Yes, I'm old enough to have played "clue"

Not to mention, during my work career, I went to events in hotel "ballrooms". I also went to many b'nai mitzvot and weddings in ballrooms. I think it was common to call the various event spaces in hotels ballrooms, even if many were not at all decorated.

[Ms. Toad]

22. At least once a year.

We go to a hotel-based conference for my daughter's rare disease. The larger rooms in every hotel I've been to are called ballrooms.

[onenote]

34. +1 More times than I can count.

In fact, for over 40 years I've been attending an annual bar association dinner held in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton. I've also attended a multitude of conferences in which various events, sessions etc. were held in hotel "ballrooms."

[Ms. Toad]

45. Agreed.

Math teacher's conferences, bar association meetings, legal academic professionals conferences, to name the biggest collection of ballroom meetings, after the medical conferences.

[gay texan]

14. Only followed with the word "blitz" n/t

[DBoon]

26. yes

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[CTyankee]

15. There was a joke: "what does a cheap hotel and tight pants have in common?"

"No ball room."

[Emile]

18. LOL +1

[Ocelot II]

16. Only in reference to whether pants are loose enough.

[obamanut2012]

19. Yes

[Scrivener7]

23. We've finally unearthed his deepest secret: he's always wanted to be voted "Debutante of the Year."

[Prairie_Seagull]

24. In highschool it was synonymous with

Basketball court. Yea we thought we were good.

Only dribbling happening will be under stumps chin.

[betsuni]

25. So far I haven't seen the word "elitist," which would be inevitable if Democrats said the word ballroom.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Yes I Have, But...

....not in a way that was meant to evoke grandeur or to impress anybody.
Every year, for around 8 years, we played a big homecoming party at a college in the Quad Cities. It was held in the ballroom of a huge old hotel in Moline. The hotel called it their ballroom, so we did too.
But, that's it.
Geez, in HS & college I worked as a janitor at a banquet hall. We didn't call the big room the ballroom. It was the Main Room!
I worked at a "ballroom" and we didn't call it that! Reinforces your point.

[eShirl]

28. only once, when discussing the Ballroom Jeans ad

[Totally Tunsie]

30. CNN quoted the donald today as having said...

"I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace."
England can have him.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Back when, I went to Detroit's Grande Ballroom (pronounced GRAN-dee) a number of times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Ballroom

See history, 1966-ish. I don't remember many details. I usually remembered where I parked.

[doc03]

32. There is something I don't understand about

what I hear on MSNOW. They are talking against public funding as opposed to private funding. I thought private funding would be illegal, it obviously a way to bribe the president. So now they are in favor of private funding even though it is illeagal?

[Tree Lady]

33. Watching a Netflix series about

1700-1800’s would be last time I approached that word and I am not the type to watch those series so few minutes in the last 20 yrs?

[oldsoldierfadingfast]

38. Yes ...

I read and watched Disney's "Cinderella"!
However; trump is no Prince and his father was certainly no King!

[mwmisses4289]

40. Quite often, actually.

Books ive read, community theatre plays I've worked where at least one scene was set in a ballroom, various events over the years that were held in hotel ballrooms, and in different places I've lived that all seemed to have one club or music venue called
"The Ballroom".

[cksmithy]

41. The ballet/dance studio my daughters took classes at was a real old ballroom (100 years old), I think because of the age

of the surrounding area. A smallish stage for a band/orchestra on one end, with a huge dance floor with storage bench seating on the 2 long walls. Opposite the stage, behind a wall with doors on each side was a long skinny full kitchen for catering. The ballroom was upstairs, downstairs was a reception room with a small apartment, 2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom for the owners or a dance teacher and a few rooms for private lessons. It was a great building, it went from the house of our local ballet academy and several owners and now is a church. It was a great space to watch your children leaping across the floor with no restrictions.

[Raine1967]

42. Yes.

Roseland Ballroom

[Initech]

43. Maybe when my class read Cinderella in 1st grade.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Only when I got chafed from running in tight shorts

[flvegan]

47. Only when singing along with AC/DC doing "Big Balls"

It's juvenile, I know.

[RB77]

48. I have used the word -

When referring to The Avalon Ballroom. A concert hall where the Dead, Airplane, Moby Grape, Country Joe, etc., - used to perform back in the 60’s. Other then that, I’ve never said the word.

[Vinca]

49. Only when buying underwear for my husband.

[Texasgal]

50. Only when I'm singing

Ballroom Blitz!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

51. The largest room in hotel conference center is sometimes named "the ballroom"

[bucolic_frolic]

52. It's a permanent debutante ball for Trump /nt

[JT45242]

53. Only on a slide at a conference to show what room it was in

Literally -- only for conferences with multiple sessions going on in a facility

[maxsolomon]

54. I use when I go to fundraisers that are in Ballrooms

It's a normal term for event spaces in big hotels.

[C_U_L8R]

55. Only when discussing Guillotines and clueless corrupt Aristocracies

And cake.

[kimbutgar]

56. Never

Ballroom were from fairy tales like Cinderella !

[TexLaProgressive]

57. Mostly in reference to my HS sweetheart 60 years ago

She was trained in ballet, jazz ballet and ballroom dancing. At school dances she didn't show off but just looked good

[0rganism]

58. Once, back in the 90s , when going to see Primus at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland

Other than that, only in reference to F47 's grifty bullshit. So... yeah.

I don't know if our country is dying from embarrassment, but we are dying from something.

[Martin Eden]

59. I'm a lifelong softball player with a lot of gear, which I keep very organized

Right next to my batroom is my ballroom.

[ecstatic]

60. I searched my texts, which go back 7 years or so

No mention of a ballroom from anyone, but I vaguely remember a friend referencing ballroom dancing. He's in a dance group.

I searched my email... It's confined to event-related emails sent by organizations.

If you're not a dancer/entertainer, event planner or politician , you wouldn't have used the word more than a handful of times prior to trump. Lol