The Onion

(Osaka, Japan) Citing objections by Democrats, the trump white house has reversed course on building the entire East Wing ballroom out of “soy beans and soy bean products.” The president proposed the material in a call with farmers on Monday morning.

“The entire thing, entirely from soy beans,” trump said to worried farmers on the conference call this morning. “They tell me we’ve got a lot of them, and I said buy them, we have a ballroom to build. China dropped the ball on this one, believe me. They’re ours now, all the soy beans.”

However, the White House reversed course by mid-afternoon, possibly after communications with Clark Construction, who is handling the project. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, “the president will include designs such as soy beans, to honor the hard working American farmer. But Democrats refuse to allow this to be built from soy beans, and are holding the government hostage to prevent it.”

Democratic lawmakers deny such objections. Senate leader Chuck Schumer responded to the allegations, saying “we didn’t say they couldn’t do it, we said it was bat-sh*t crazy.”

Farmers are saddened by the reversal. They call on Democrats to open the government, so that the president can buy their crops and use them as building materials as he promised.

Soy bean prices briefly spiked on the announcement, but are now trading down in futures markets.