Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Says He Wants To ‘Blow Up’ White House Ballroom

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appeared to suggest blowing up the White House Ballroom while delivering remarks on Tuesday.

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Krasner attended the 24th annual slavery commemoration at President George Washington’s Home in Old City, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia. He proposed blowing up the ballroom during the same event.

“There will not be a ballroom. There will not be a ballroom. There will not be a Kennedy Center renamed for a fool. That will not be happening. What is going to be happening is that in about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces, because we will have won. They will have lost.”

“And I’m going to have a paper weight sitting on my desk. And do you know what that paper weight’s going to be? It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up. That’s what it’s going to be,” he said.

Krasner said the White House ballroom would be blown up in an official ceremony, with pieces of the rubble being sold as paperweights, and the money used to fund the ballroom being returned to the taxpayers.

In addition, Krasner referred to President Donald Trump as a “pain in the ass” and “the embodiment of hate, the embodiment of ignorance, and the embodiment of depriving people of their vote and education.”

Trump replaced panels on an exhibit about slavery at Washington’s Home back in July 2025, according to the Associated Press (AP). The original panels, installed in 2010, told the story of how Washington had nine slaves in his home in the 1790s

While the new panels still include information about slavery, some historians accused Trump of attempting to whitewash history. (RELATED: ‘History Will Be Made’: Trump’s Unveiled Ballroom Plans Reveal Bigger, Taller White House Addition)

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Michael Coard, attorney and founder of Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, reacted to Trump’s decision to replace the previous panels, according to the AP.

“What if there’s a president next time who doesn’t like the Liberty Bell because the Liberty Bell was used by abolitionists to support the end of slavery? What if there’s a president who doesn’t like the Statue of Liberty because too many immigrants come in? Do we remove the Statue of Liberty?” he asked.

On Aug. 3, the City of Philadelphia asked the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a lawsuit challenging the removal of the previous panels, local outlet FOX 29 reported.

Attorney General Todd Blanche also responded to Krasner’s proposition to blow up the White House Ballroom during a recent appearance on Fox News.

“It’s DISGUSTING that a district attorney in Philadelphia who, by the way, has a city with its OWN problems, is so focused on what the president is doing at the White House,” Blanche said in part.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order allowing construction of the White House Ballroom to continue after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon attempted to halt the project.

Senate Republicans proposed giving Trump up to $1 billion for security “enhancements” related to the project in a May 2026 reconciliation bill. However, they removed those funds in their entirety before the legislation advanced.

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