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So the White House Correspondents Dinner, which is an even where the press invites the President, is supposed to be held on the White House grounds because going out in public is "too dangerous?" Do I have that right? That instead of being the press' event that the President is invited to, it will instead be a Presidential event that the press are invited to? Do I have that right, that we've literally inverted how anything functions for the sake of making this fat fucking loser happy.
Indeed! Plus, building that giant corruption-riddled eyesore will surely be cheaper than just having adequate security at the next White House Correspondents Dinner. They surely saved enough to pay for it by not having metal detectors at the hotel this time.
Trump didn't go to the dinner over multiple years purely because a lot of reporters use it to poke fun (in good fun) at the President, and occasionally actually lobby for something too. The man cannot take being made fun of, at all. Making it a Presidential event makes sure that he can exclude anybody that's not the most sycophantic.
Your mistake is you're using logic. MAGA folks don't do logic. Instead of "we do X because of Y so this means Z" it's simply "X. Y. Z".
Someone tried to kill Trump. Going out in public is dangerous. Trump needs a Ballroom.
That's it. Connecting the dots requires a functioning brain. For MAGA the dots just bounce around freely. Each one an independent thought.