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Donald Trump Looking Out Window at Ballroom or What a View is an exploitable green-screen meme format based on a video of U.S. President Donald Trump pausing a meeting with oil executives to look out a set of windows on a door at the White House's ballroom addition, exclaiming, "What a view." As a meme, the scene outside the windows is typically replaced with something funny that Trump is meant to be looking at with wonder. Memes using the clip were popularized on social media, particularly on X / Twitter, starting in mid-January 2026.

Origin

On January 9th, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump had a meeting with oil executives at the White House regarding the capture of Nicholas Maduro and the U.S.'s oil interests in Venezuela.

Shortly into starting the meeting, Trump mentions that he wished more people could have attended, saying that if the White House had a ballroom, they could have. He then gets up to look out a window behind him at the construction on the ballroom extension, exclaiming, "What a view." A video of the moment was uploaded by the New York Post YouTube^[1] channel that day, garnering over 20,000 views in three days.

On January 11th, X^[2] user @MurdoinkGS posted an edit of the clip in which the windows have been replaced with a green screen, garnering over 27,000 likes and 1,000 reposts in a day, allowing others to replace the original outside with various edits.

Spread

On January 11th, 2026, X^[3] user @OldJimZimmer posted an edit of the video where the Joe Emoji is seen out the window, garnering over 3,000 likes in a day. It was reposted by X^[4] user @TheRoyalSerf that day, garnering over 38,000 likes and 3,300 reposts in a day.

Later that day, X^[5] user @BowserFarts posted an edit of the meme where the Bowser fart GIF has been placed outside the window, garnering over 15,000 likes and 1,200 reposts in a day.

Also on January 11th, 2026, X^[6] user @girldrawsghosts quoted another post sharing the Joe Emoji version of the meme, writing, "I hope this is the only piece of media that survives the collapse," garnering over 141,000 likes and 7,900 reposts in a day.

Various Examples

Template / Green Screen

Trump looks out the window green screen pic.twitter.com/xxTiazQh1W

— Green Screen Videos by Murdoink (@MurdoinkGS) January 11, 2026

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