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White House Defends Trump Ballroom After Design Criticism
The White House says the 90,000-square-foot ballroom meets a decades-old need for larger state events and is privately funded, despite design and legal criticisms.
- On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom project, attacking The New York Times for publishing criticism from experts she dismissed as lacking construction experience.
- Critics cited numerous design flaws in the proposed East Wing, including "fake windows on the north side" and masonry niches designed to look like windows, while noting the ballroom is about 60 percent larger than the residence by floor area.
- Architect Thomas Gallas questioned the timeline, stating, "The timeline never made any sense to me. A building on this scale might take its architects and engineers 18 months to two years from initial concept to completed construction documents."
- The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a final vote on Thursday to approve the project, though concerns persist about the south portico's grand staircase that leads nowhere into the ballroom.
- Legal challenges remain pending from preservation organizations, while President Trump maintains the ballroom addresses a longstanding need and will be fully funded by private donations at no taxpayer expense.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has pushed back against an architectural analysis in The New York Times of Donald Trump‘s proposed White House ballroom. She took to social media to criticize the authors, praising President Trump as a builder of “world-class buildings” and his lead architect, Shalom Baranes. However, Leavitt did not address any of the specific design flaws detailed in the analysis. Leavitt dismissed the critics as pe…
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