The president’s announcement of a massive White House ballroom comes 15 years after the Obama administration scorned his offer to build them a lavish new event space. Way back in 2011, Donald Trump told ABC News in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that the previous year,

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he inspected the site of the ballroom that "would be built, compliments of a man known as Donald J. Trump."

The Trump administration on Thursday announced construction will begin in September on a $200 million ballroom at the White House that appears to be almost twice as big as the existing structure and will add an event space capable of seating 650 people.