Trump shows off new ballroom designs as he defends $400 million project [View all]

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The planned White House addition, a top priority of the president, is facing a key vote this week. A federal judge may also rule this week to halt the project.

Trump shows off new ballroom designs as he defends 0 million project

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The ballroom has been a top priority for Trump, who rapidly demolished the East Wing last year to make way for it. He has solicited millions of dollars from private companies to pay for the project, and he frequently mentions it in speeches and unscripted remarks.

It has proved less popular with voters, polls have found. Fifty-eight percent of Americans said they opposed tearing down the East Wing to build the ballroom, according to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted last month, while 25 percent said they supported it.

Members of the public sent more than 35,000 comments about the project to a federal commission reviewing the project, and a Washington Post analysis found more than 97 percent of those comments were critical of the president’s plans.

The design has been panned by architects and historic preservationists, who say that the 90,000-square-foot addition is too large and will overshadow the 55,000-square-foot White House. James McCrery II, Trump’s first architect on the project, clashed with the president over his plans to enlarge the ballroom, then was replaced.....

The New York Times on Sunday wrote about concerns over the ballroom’s design, an article that appeared to irk the president, who mentioned it several times aboard Air Force One