President Donald Trump is finally getting his White House ballroom.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Thursday that construction will begin in September on a 90,000 square foot addition to the East Wing that would include Trump's long sought-after $200 million ballroom.
The Daily Mail reported in April that Trump had started pitching the construction of a White House ballroom in 2010 - back when President Barack Obama was in office and before he launched his own political career.
'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 then currently allowed,' Leavitt said at Thursday's briefing. 'President Trump has expressed his commitment to solving this problem on behalf of future administrations and the American people.'
Leavitt said the new ballroom would reside in the current East Wing of the White House, explaining that the building would be 'modernized' when asked if portions of the East Wing, originally constructed in 1902, would be torn down.
