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The White House Needs a Ballroom. The Left Just Hates Who's Building It

David Manney-Opinion : Aug 20, 2026  PJ Media

Does the White House need a larger, permanent, secure place for state dinners and major official events? Federal planners say the project provides exactly that function. History says presidents have repeatedly reshaped the White House when its needs changed. Future presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, would use the space. So why has a ballroom become another national emergency? Because Donald Trump wants it.

[PJMedia.com] President Donald Trump wants a permanent ballroom at the White House, and the Democratic left and its media chorus have spent months turning it into a personality test. (Screengrab image: via Reuters video)

The question keeps coming back: Will Trump get his ballroom?

The wording tells you plenty. The project is treated first as a Donald Trump indulgence and only later, if at all, as an improvement to a building that has been altered, expanded, rebuilt, and modernized by presidents for more than two centuries.

The White House plan calls for roughly 90,000 square feet of event space with seating for 650 people. The East Room seats about 200. Large state functions can require a temporary tent about 100 yards from the main entrance. Federal planners describe the new facility as a permanent, secure event space designed to increase capacity for official state functions.

For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed. President Donald J. Trump has expressed his commitment to solving this problem on behalf of future Administrations and the American people.
The White House is one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in the world, yet the White House is currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders and other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away from the main building entrance. The White House State Ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of ornately designed and carefully crafted space, with a seated capacity of 650 people—a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House.
In recent weeks, President Trump has held several meetings with members of the White House Staff, the National Park Service, the White House Military Office, and the United States Secret Service to discuss design features and planning. 

Trump won't be packing it into a moving truck when his term ends. Every president who follows him would inherit it.

History should make the current outrage harder to sustain. Thomas Jefferson added colonnades. Theodore Roosevelt demolished the old conservatories and built what became the West Wing. Franklin Roosevelt expanded the East Wing in 1942. Harry Truman oversaw a renovation so extensive that workers gutted the interior of the Executive Mansion and rebuilt it inside the original exterior walls... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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