2025-08-04 08:45
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2025-08-04 08:45
– There was no president ahead of me who had the right ballroom. We nest in tents placed in the garden, and this does not look good or representative – noted Donald Trump. And he added that he would build a suitable room. It will allocate $ 200 million.
It is not difficult to resist the impression that the press conference, at which Donald Trump explained the need to add a ballroom to the White House, was cut out of the film “Wanted, Wanted”, during which the husband, the director by profession, moved the lake in the newly emerging housing estate to the amazement of architects.
The White House announced plans to build a new ballroom. It would be attached to the modernized eastern wing of the seat of US presidents. Currently there are offices of the first lady of Melania Trump and other advisers. The new ballroom is to have an area of 8360 square meters, in which about 650 people can easily fit (for parties inside the White House was used for this port of the Eastern Hall, but it is adapted to “only” 200 guests).
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The delivered visualizations present a huge room with gold and crystal chandeliers, gold -plated Corinthian -style columns, a coffered ceiling also with golden decorations, golden floor lamps and a marble floor arranged in a plaid. Three walls with windows topped with arches go out to the southern part of the presidential residence. It is impossible to resist the impression that the golden-white style makes, among others to the style of Louis XIV.
Donald Trump wants to change the face of the White House. Plans have been presented today.
A large ballroom is to be in the extension, dripping with gold – this is how it comments in Washington.
“Trump wants to turn the White House into Mar-a-Lago in the DC edition,” say some opponents … pic.twitter.com/afbnb593qu
– Paweł Żuchowski (@p_zuchowski) JULY 31, 2025
– The works are to start in September – informed spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. The commissioning of the investment was determined quite smoothly. It is to be completed “long before the end of Trump's term” in January 2029. – President Trump is a builder by nature – noted Susie Wiles, chief of the White House staff. – Both the president and the White House want to cooperate to maintain a unique history of this place – he adds.
Sensation was also aroused by the cost of this investment, with radical budget cuts, which the administration took up in almost all areas. She was estimated at $ 200 million. However, as the White House will provide, the money will be transferred directly by Trump as a donation and other donors.
It will be a great project that will go down in history. I think it will be something special – says the president at every occasion.
This is not a new idea of Donald Trump. Already in 2016, during the presidency of Barack Obama, he proposed $ 100 million for the construction of a “beautiful” ballroom. Democrats, however, rejected the offer. This is not the end of the modifications that the new administration funded a white house. Two huge flagship masts have already been installed, which are visible even to passengers landing at the Ronald Reagan airport in Washington, 8 km away from the White House, golden decoration in an oval office made by a goldsmith from Florida, which previously supervised the finishing of Trump's residence in Palm Beach, and the rose garden was carved and granted.
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