Trump’s fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds

The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year.

President Donald Trump had just begun a Jan. 9 meeting at the White House with oil and gas executives when he paused, stood and walked to a window to admire his construction project.

“This is the door to the ballroom,” the president said, gesturing at the future entrance to the planned $400 million addition to the White House. Trump touted the project for about 90 seconds, extolling the ballroom’s features, before resuming a discussion of how to rebuild Venezuela’s oil industry and lower global energy prices.

By Dan Diammond