Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would like – the president seems bent on proving him right

The start of construction on the president’s $250m ballroom marks a regression to his property wheeler-dealer days

Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would like – the president seems bent on proving him right

He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose…