Trump Admits He Could’ve Built Ballroom Without Destroying the East Wing, But ‘It Looked Like Hell’

President Donald Trump admitted on Monday that he could have built his new White House ballroom without destroying the East Wing, but it “was a poor, sad sight” that “looked like hell.”

Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham about former First Lady Michelle Obama’s criticism of the destruction of the White House East Wing, Trump said:

First of all, the East Wing was a beautiful little, tiny structure that was built many years ago, that was renovated and expanded and despanded and columns ripped out. It had nothing to do with the original building. It was a poor, sad sight, and I could’ve built the ballroom around it, but it would not have been– we’re building one of the greatest ballrooms in the world. By the way, zero money spent by the government. Zero.

He boasted, “We’re gonna have the best ballroom anywhere in the world, and I built a lot of them. You know that. You know a lot of them. This will be one of the greatest ballrooms in the world.”

Ingraham asked, “There was a report that [First Lady] Melania didn’t love this idea. Is that true?”

“She loved her little, tiny office, but you know what? She’s very smart. In about one day, she– if you would ask her now, she says it’s great,” replied Trump. “The East Wing sounds good, right? It sounds good. But the East Wing, that building was renovated 20 times, including adding a floor to the top, which was terrible. It was out of common brick, little tiny windows, it looked like hell.”

He concluded, “It had nothing to do with the original building, and I didn’t want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an OK ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle.”

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