By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
When Donald Trump first mentioned back in December that the White House ballroom would have anti-drone capabilities, it sounded like something he made up on the fly to justify his fancy party venue. “It’s got all drone — they call it ‘drone-free roof.’ The drones won’t touch it,” Trump said during an unrelated press conference.
Similarly, when Trump described the ballroom as “essentially … a shed” for the “massive complex” the military is building underground, it seemed like another feeble effort to combat the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s lawsuit by portraying his vanity project as a national security necessity.
