The president of the United States, Donald Trump, insisted this Sunday to the court that has paralyzed his White House Ballroom to approve the immediate construction of the monumental project so that incidents such as the failed attack last night at the Correspondents’ Dinner are not repeatedwhich forced the evacuation of the president, his wife and first lady Melania and his entire cabinet present at the event.
“This event would never have happened with the ballroom, military and top secretwhich is currently being built in the White House,” the president said in a message published on his Truth Social platform.
The detainee’s house is cordoned off after the shooting at the dinner Trump attended / efe
The State Ballroom of the White House is one of Trump’s most desired projects, which he intends to inaugurate before the end of his second term, in 2029, at a estimated cost between 170 and 350 million dollarsaccording to estimates from the Trump Administration itself, which have varied over time.
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Trump conceives the structure as a kind of armored reception room of 8,200 square meters whose cost will be assumed by the president’s patrons, such as the wealthy Adelson familyand big technological technologies such as Google or Amazon. The problem is that Federal District Judge Richard Leon construction stopped again a week and a half agoand accused the Administration of trying to haggle over the opinions it had previously issued against the project.
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The judge, in his ruling, admits a lawsuit from the National Trust to be processed, understanding that “no law even comes close to giving the president the authority which he claims to possess”.
Trump, in response this Sunday, has crossed out the “ridiculous” lawsuit: “A woman who was walking her dog posted it,” he criticized in reference to architectural historian Alison K. Hoagland, who is at the center of the lawsuit.
Trump has demanded that its “beautiful” ballroom be built “urgently” because it will have “all the highest level security measures and will be located within the premises of the safest building in the world: the White House”, as requested, he assured, “the Army, the Secret Service and the Police“.
