"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt finally revealed details and shared images about plans for a grand ballroom on the White House grounds complex, following President Donald Trump's announcement earlier this week about the upcoming expansion.
During a White House press briefing on Thursday, Leavitt announced that construction will begin in September on the new 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House. Trump has held meetings with numerous departments to discuss design features and planning.
During his interview on the "Pod Force One" podcast with Miranda Devine, the president and host discussed some of the grand ballrooms of Europe, and Trump said it was well past time to have one built at the people's house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, D.C.
"But they've never had a ballroom," he added. "A ballroom, meaning someplace you can sit 6 or 700 people if the President of China or France, or the U.K., or [EU President] Ursula von der Leyen comes to town, you give them a big state dinner. We don't have a room like that. At the White House, they have to use a tent. And if it's raining, it's soaking wet, soggy, the area is a very low area, and all the water rushes to it. And it's a disaster," Trump continued. "So, I said, you know if I win this second time, I'm gonna build a ballroom. A beautiful ballroom for the White House. And they need that at the White House. They can't do the kinds of things they like to do in their big room. Which is a beautiful reception room, but not as a ballroom."
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