Donald Trump confessed on Monday that he didn’t actually have to controversially raze the White House’s East Wing in order to make way for his $300 million ballroom.
But “I didn’t want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an OK ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle,” the president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
Trump defended his decision to tear down the East Wing, despite initially saying that the new ballroom “won’t interfere with the current building”, describing it as “a beautiful little, tiny structure that was built many years ago, that was renovated and expanded and de-spanded and columns ripped out.”
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“It had nothing to do with the original building,” the president continued. “It was a poor, sad sight and I could’ve built the ballroom around it but it would not have been…”
