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