President Donald Trump got so excited about the construction on his increasingly costly new White House ballroom that he got up from a meeting with oil executives on Friday to stare out the window at it. This is the door to the ballroom," Trump told oil executives. The White House originally projected in July that the project, which required him to tear down the East Wing, would cost $200 million in donated funds. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementDonors identified by the White House include Trump himself and several big tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase and Meta. “I don’t think there’ll be anything like it in the world, actually,” Trump told the oil executives Friday.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2026 12:09 UTC