[sample:1970s telethon studio hum] [sample:Casio organ note, sustained, faint] [VOICE 1, flat]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE 2, flat]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE 3, breathy]: It's time to build the ballroom. [VOICE 4]: Let's build the ballroom. [sample:the chant settles into a four-voice loop, it does not stop, it grows over the course of the piece] [NEWSREADER, deadpan]: Iran has fired fifteen missiles and four drones at the United Arab Emirates. An oil refinery is on fire in Fujairah. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [NEWSREADER]: Iranian state media report two missiles fired at a US warship near Jask. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A, performatively aggrieved]: I made the U.S.A. forty-five billion dollars in eight months. [sample:cash register] [NEWSREADER]: Spirit Airlines has shut down. The carrier cited fuel costs. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: "Too Late" is a DISASTER for America. Interest rates too high. [sample:dumpster lid clanging once] [NEWSREADER]: A gallon of gasoline today is four dollars and forty-six cents. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE B]: This was an incredibly positive pro-America speech. [VOICE C]: I have never seen one like this. [VOICE D]: Best State of the Union I've ever seen. [VOICE E]: Not just by Trump. By any President. [sample:weak applause] [NEWSREADER]: The Pentagon has withdrawn five thousand troops from Germany. The German Chancellor said the United States had been humiliated by Iran. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: Leaders lead. Cowards kneel. Traitors bow. [sample:single trumpet, anthem, cracking] [NEWSREADER]: An eighteenth Cuban immigrant has died in ICE detention this year. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: Lifetime contribution per immigrant. Somalia, minus one point one million. Source, an institute in the Netherlands. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [NEWSREADER]: A federal appeals court has blocked the distribution of mifepristone by mail. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: A North Carolina woman was murdered on a light rail train. Former Governor Roy Cooper made this Tragedy happen. Vote for Michael Whatley. [sample:campaign drumroll, brief] [NEWSREADER]: Press freedom in the United States has fallen seven places. The country now ranks sixty-fourth. [CHANT, louder]: Build the ballroom. Build the ballroom. [NEWSREADER]: The President's approval rating is thirty-three percent. His approval on the cost of living is twenty-two. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [VOICE A]: It cannot be built fast enough. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. Build the ballroom. [sample:gambling jingle, half-speed] [NEWSREADER, fainter]: The President of the United States has twelve point six million followers. [CHANT]: Build the ballroom. [NEWSREADER, almost inaudible]: He is following sixty-nine accounts. [CHANT, deafening]: Build the ballroom. Build the ballroom. Build the ballroom. [sample:Casio note, unresolved] [silence except the chant, fading] [VOICE A, close to microphone]: Build the ballroom. [click]
