A large and beautiful dance hall? Trump places his mark on the White House.
Whenever I take visitors on a tour of the White House press room, the reaction is always the same: “It is very small!”
As shown on the TV, the space can appear large. But in real life, it is very narrow. With just 49 seats, the surroundings are often standing only. An additional correspondents press the edges, and they are fiercely waving to attract the attention of the press secretary.
Other areas of the White House are also smaller than life. The oval office cannot fit with only a few dozen, and even less when it becomes a set of live broadcasts. The residence of the upper floor, which toured in 2007 at a lunch with the first lady, Laura Bush, is comfortable but modest. Guest lists for state dinner in the Eastern Chamber – the largest area occurred in the executive palace – is limited to about 200 people. For major parties, the White House places a tent in the southern grass.
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From a newly sectarian oval office to a paved pink garden, President Donald Trump has been busy with various renewal projects since returning to the White House. While the historical complex has been subjected to many changes and updates over the years, Mr. Trump’s plan for a huge new dance hall excites eyebrows.
This leads us to President Donald Trump’s plan to add a 90,000 square feet dance hall to the eastern wing of the White House, which aims to absorb 650 people. Amid a discussion about the number of times the president throws a party for many people, the truth is that Mr. Trump, through a real estate developer profession, is not something if not greater than life. And his spaces want to reflect this. The planned structure will cover 2.1 acres – nearly twice the size of the central White House edifice, which is 55,000 square feet.
“In some way, this celebration hall is part of the concession – the Trump Hall concession … more than an organic thing to experience the White House and its history,” says Martha Ginet Kumar, a pottery presidential researcher at the University of Tosson.
in Architectural engineer offers for the new hallIt is difficult not to see strong similarities with the dance halls in other Trump properties, including the Golf Stadium in Turnberry, Scotland, Palm Beach, Florida, Real Estate, Mar Lago.
I got the experience of the gilded celebration hall on my first visit to Mar Lago in March 2016, when the future president celebrated the victory in Florida there over the Senator in the state Marco Rubio. A fairly sparkling room with the unseen, where the club members chanted the emerging politician.
The White House’s proposal is not a project to improve the first house of Mr. Trump since his return to the presidency. Rose Garden still has roses, but the grass has been paved, like the yard in Mar-A-Lago. In June, Mr. Trump installed huge white columns with American flags in the northern and southern meadows. The Oval Office is now lacking in golden filigree – on photo frames, on the stove, on Cherubs that drop from above the entrances.
“The FDR has removed America from the gold standard. It seems that Trump is restoring it – one room at the same time,” says president David Petrosa.
With all these renovations, the president follows a practical approach. On Tuesday, correspondence monitored Mr. Trump walks along the flat roof of the White House surrounding roomI asked him what he was doing. He said, “He walks”, and searched for “just another way to spend my money to the country.” When asked if he was thinking about more renovations, he came with his hands and said: “Something beautiful.”
The expected NEW Ballroom expected cost of $ 200 million will be paid with private funds, including His own moneyMr. Trump says. The construction will start in September, and it will be completed before the end of its second term, according to his journalist.
External observers doubt that such a huge project can be completed with only $ 200 million – Refer to the Federal Reserve Renewal, and now at $ 2.5 billion – or ends by January 2029. Some also ask whether the new celebration hall will be large as Mr. Trump says, with a proposed size equal to nearly two football.
So far, there has been no mention of other government agencies that play a role. When Mr. Trump added a 1,200 square feet tennis wing to the White House lands during his first term, an executive branch agency called National Capital Planning Committee is called the National Capital Planning Committee He was involved.
If the first period of Mr. Trump is related to knowing what he has the ability to do, then the second period is just doing this – from politics to the turning of the White House. Trump’s anti -anger machine responds as expected, as some indicate that the celebration hall project is another sign that it intends to stay in power after his second term and benefits well from the new event area.
Critics also say that the special financing for the renovations of the White House opens the door to contributions from people trying to curb a preference with the president, including foreign actors. To date, donor identities have not been detected.
However, what Mr. Trump is doing unprecedented. Since the White House was opened for its first occupants, President John Adams and his wife, Abeel, in 1800, he obtained regular promotions and additions – including the total reconstruction after the British burned the place in 1814. South Rawaq was added in 1824, in the north in 1830.
In the twentieth century, the add -ons for observation included an internal swimming pool (1933) of President Franklin de Roosevelt and the Tawuman (1948). During the presidency of Harry Truman, the dilapidated White House requests intense renovations that Trumans moved via Pennsylvania Street to Blair House for three years.
In 1970, during Nixon’s presidency, the pool was covered and the briefing room was installed. To this day, one can enter an entrance behind the platform and walk on a drawer in the old swimming pool.
Perhaps the most prominent aspect of the White House is its triple service as an housing, office and museum. And not only any multi -use building. It should be safe from infiltrators, LeadAnd terrorist attacks. In 2019, a longer ocean fence was built, now 13 feet high, with a “Climb” technology.
The White House is “constantly changing”, he writes Stewart McClorinHead of the Historical Association of the White House. “It is difficult for us to imagine the White House today without these developments and changes.”