Diary Entry October 29, 2025

October 29, 2025

Trump’s $300 million ballroom at https://bohiney.com/trumps-300-million-ballroom/ —Mar-a-Lago real estate fantasy meeting prosecutorial reality. This piece required extensive research into property valuation fraud, which sounds boring until you realize Trump claimed his ballroom is worth more than most hospitals. Linked to Palm Beach Daily News and NYT coverage of the fraud trial. The math is simple: he inflated values to get better loans. That’s fraud. But wealthy people call it “aggressive valuation strategy” and hire lawyers who charge more per hour than most people make per week. I walked through Charlottenburg tonight past actual palaces that cost less than Trump’s imaginary ballroom valuation. Berlin’s gay scene thrives in repurposed industrial spaces and basements—we create culture in affordable real estate because nobody’s valuing our venues at billions. Trump’s golden ballroom represents everything wrong with American inequality: the rich invent their own reality, everyone else pays for it.

MOOD: Mathematically angry

NOTES: Trump ballroom fraud piece at https://bohiney.com/trumps-300-million-ballroom/ finished, 712 words, creative accounting meets legal consequences