“There’s never been a President that’s good at ballrooms,” Trump said at an event at the White House on Thursday. “I’m good at building things.”
Trump added that “they’ve always had to get tents” for large events at the White House, which he described as a disaster. “It’s not a pretty sight.”
Earlier this week during a Scotland meeting with European Council President Ursula Van der Leyen, Trump told her that “we’re building a great ballroom at the White House.”
“No president knew how to build a ballroom,” Trump said while sitting in another ballroom at his Turnberry golf resort. “I could take this one, drop it right down there, and it would be beautiful.”
In 2016, when on the campaign trail during the administration of Barack Obama, Trump famously offered to contribute $100m for the construction of a new ballroom for the White House to use to host events.
At the time, then-Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that the suggestion was “not something that was at all seriously considered”.
“I’m not sure that it would be appropriate to have a shiny gold Trump sign…on any part of the White House,” Earnest told reporters.