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Inside the Mystery of the White House Ballroom: Portal to Opulence or Just Really Big? So what exactly is happening with the White House ballroom ? Is it a ballroom? A portal to a gilded dimension? Both? The construction project that started this September has become one of Washington's most fascinating mysteries, and the latest updates only make things more intriguing. Yes, it's still a ballroom, and it's massive —90,000 square feet of pure opulence rising where the East Wing once stood. To put that in perspective, that's bigger than the entire main White House building. President Trump recently announced it'll be done in about a year and a half, calling it, " the best ballroom anywhere in the country ," though a National Park Service report suggests a 2028 completion date. So will it be ready for Christmas? Definitely not this year —we're still in the demolition-and-foundation phase. The design itself sounds like it could be a porta...

The Ballroom Question: What They're NOT Telling You Okay, so let me get this straight. In July, the price was $200 million. By October, it's $300 million. That's a 50% increase. For construction that hasn't even been completed yet. "With any construction project, there are changes," they say. Changes. Right . And the size? Originally 650 seated guests. Now 999. That's oddly specific, isn't it? Why not 1,000? What happens at number 1,000? What regulatory threshold are they dancing just under? But here's what really caught my attention: In July, Trump explicitly said it, " won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it, but not touching it ." Direct quote. Yet by October, the entire East Wing is demolished . Gone. Rubble . "In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure," he now says. So... it IS touching it. It IS interfering. The thing he said wouldn't happen is happen...