The rapper discussed the ballroom last week on the “Friends Keep Secrets” podcast and admitted he thought it was a good idea.

“I’m so glad to hear Trump say — when they was mad at him about building the ballroom — and he was like, because everything we do, we have to do it on the damn lawn,” he said. “So people who don’t know nothin’ hearin’ that, thinkin’ he just bein’ Trump — no, for real, I was glad to hear him saying that.”

Lil Wayne was one of the performers who commemorated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop at the vice presidential residence in September 2023, an event spearheaded by then-Vice President Kamala Harris. On the podcast, he said that performing on the lawn left him wondering, “What is this, a backyard barbecue?”

Lil Wayne, right, apparently didn’t think much of performing on the lawn for the vice president and seems to approve of Donald Trump’s ballroom plans.

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So it seems the president is desperate for any sign of public support for the boondoggle, er, ballroom — especially when it comes from a noted architecture critic a musician whose 2020 federal weapons charge he pardoned in 2021.

Many people were taken aback by how much Lil Wayne’s ballroom approval seemed to mean to Trump.