Donald Trump was mocked on social media Tuesday after he giddily posted about rapper Lil Wayne supporting his controversial White House ballroom plans.

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?”

Trump’s ballroom construction, which has demolished the East Wing of the White House, has been heavily criticized for a variety of reasons, not least because Trump reneged on his promise that the project would be entirely privately funded.

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.

a statement from the President of the United States:"Lil Wayne Praises Trump for Building White House Ballroom: ‘I’m So Glad!’" pic.twitter.com/bDerng9tf9

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

I’m glad architecture historian Lil Wayne finally gave his opinion.

Idiocracy to the power of a billion. https://t.co/jJOxIzQ9B9

So the demographic Trump is trying to please is Lil Wayne and to hell with anyone else? That would explain why his miserable poll numbers aren't causing a course correction https://t.co/xA8J0d3I0z

Lil Wayne is a reactionary who denounced the BLM movement, saying “I don't know nothing about that, what they're talking about… Don't get mad cause I'm rich and I don't see none of that.”Wayne also received a pardon from Trump in January 2021 on a federal weapons charge. https://t.co/Gsmps9lKkq

You know an election is coming when he start talking about black rappers. https://t.co/H8eDni58YV

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