Trump says Melania isn’t happy with White House ballroom construction noise
The East Wing demolition for a $300 million ballroom reduces White House Christmas decoration space, with the main mansion hosting all displays this season, officials said.
- 1- President Trump said Melania Trump is unhappy with the constant noise from the construction of a new White House ballroom on the former East Wing site, joking that she asks him to “turn off the pile drivers.” 2- The construction project has drawn mixed public and political reactions, though Trump defends it by citing private donor funding and the benefits of expanded event space. 3- Trump has emphasized his experience building ballrooms and described the East Wing as a renovated, altered structure that no longer reflected the original White House design.
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While millions of Americans are complaining about rising food prices, Donald Trump is tearing down the east wing of the White House - for his "magnificent" ballroom, which every president has supposedly wanted to build for 150 years.
Trump says Melania isn’t happy with White House ballroom construction noise
President Trump on Tuesday said first lady Melania Trump isn’t happy about White House ballroom construction on the grounds where the East Wing once stood. “I wouldn’t say my wife is thrilled. She hears pile drivers in the background, all day, all night…,” the president told reporters. He said Melania often asks, “”Darling, could you…
White House gets scaled-down Christmas display amid ballroom work
US First Lady Melania Trump unveiled this year's White House Christmas decorations on Monday -- in a reduced space after President Donald Trump demolished part of the historic building for a new ballroom.
Trump’s White House Becomes More And More Like Versailles
The New York Times has a nausea-inducing deep dive into Marie Antoinette Trump’s plans for a Versailles-like ballroom to replace the East Wing of the White House, which he destroyed. Actually, Versailles-like wasn’t enough for Trump’s self-aggrandizing dreams. As The Times tells it, Trump’s architect, James McCrery, originally designed the ballroom to have “high ceilings and arched windows reminiscent of Versailles’s Hall of Mirrors. It would ha…
Donald Trump started out as a real estate developer. At the White House he has big plans with a new ballroom. But with that he drives the planner into despair.
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