President Trump on Thursday promised the new White House ballroom will be complete in close to a year and a half — seemingly before the end of his second term if his pledge proves true.
“I want to welcome you all to the White House. It’s an honor to have you. It’s a special place. You know, for 150 years, they’ve been trying to do a ballroom,” the president said during the Congressional Ball Thursday evening.
“They never got it up, but we got it off. In a very short period of time, like about a year and a half, you’re going to have the best ballroom anywhere in the country,” he added.
Trump’s new ballroom has been the subject of much controversy in recent months, with the president’s East Wing demolition to create space for the project receiving heavy backlash.
The ballroom was slammed as a “vanity project” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) referred to the destruction of the East Wing as “heartbreaking.”
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“Oh you’re trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can’t hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) previously said on social media.
Last Saturday, President Trump defended lofty costs linked with the ballroom project, saying to critics that the space is going to be “much bigger and more beautiful” when done.
