{"id":17991,"date":"2026-05-06T18:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/report-exposes-sketchy-no-bid-deals-as-costs-spiral-on-trumps-vanity-ballroom-project\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:56:04","slug":"report-exposes-sketchy-no-bid-deals-as-costs-spiral-on-trumps-vanity-ballroom-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/report-exposes-sketchy-no-bid-deals-as-costs-spiral-on-trumps-vanity-ballroom-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Report exposes sketchy no-bid deals as costs spiral on Trump&#8217;s vanity ballroom project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/RJk8qyqFrc6fH8XOgg0z51U0apnz3CgU8OK5E5piEOo.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=b340e32c50c7ec072d9fa476fe42a0dfba1beff7\" alt=\"Report exposes sketchy no-bid deals as costs spiral on Trump&#039;s vanity ballroom project\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>And that&#8217;s your daily dose of internet culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t5b5i3\/report_exposes_sketchy_nobid_deals_as_costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong. And that&#8217;s your daily dose of internet culture&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1t5b5i3\/report_exposes_sketchy_nobid_deals_as_costs\/","_sweary_views":10704,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}