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Trump’s East Wing Ballroom and Obama’s Presidential Center – Dr. Rich SwierClick to Open the Search Input fieldScroll to Top

Summary by Dr. Rich Swier
There’s an interesting juxtaposition of these two building projects: President Trump champions a neo-Classical ballroom and Obama is delayed on his presidential center “Death Star.” Ross Douthat, in a column titled: “Better Trump’s Ballroom than Obama’s Tower”: The controversial public building is ugly and intimidating, architectural vainglory battening on presidential ego, inappropriate to its setting, unmoored from memory and tradition. I’m tal

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Donald Trump's ballroom project not only meets with approval within his government. In fact, White House employees are supposed to have secretly mocked the US presidents and given the ballroom a tasteless nickname.

With a new ballroom in the White House, the US president plans to create a festive space for around 999 guests. The architecture reflects Trump's preference for classical and traditional architecture over modernist designs for public buildings.

In the middle of the shutdown, Donald Trump launched a pharaonic project: the construction of a ballroom of 8,000 m2 for 250 million dollars in the heart of the White House. Between heritage ambition and a taste for prestige, the building president divided America and irritated the Democrats.

Gold, concrete and gigantism: Donald Trump has made the world's most famous headquarters a major building site. However, the demolition of the east wing is only part of several transformations with which the president shapes the White House into the stage of his power.

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scenemag.co.uk broke the news in on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
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