Trump apologizes to oil titans for not having a posh ballroom to host them
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an image of a rendering of the new White House ballroom to be built as he meets with Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 22, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump apologized to the world's oil companies because he did not yet have a ballroom to host them at the White House.

"The largest Oil Companies in the World are coming to the White House at 2:30 P.M. Everybody wants to be there," Trump wrote on Friday in a Truth Social post. "It's too bad that the Ballroom hasn't completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED. We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today, but Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, will see them over the next week. Everyone is in daily contact."

"Today's meeting will almost exclusively be a discussion on Venezuelan Oil, and our longterm [sic] relationship with Venezuela, its Security, and People," he added. "A very big factor in this involvement will be the reduction of Oil Prices for the American People. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly of all, will be the stoppage of Drugs and Criminals coming into the United States of America."