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."

WASHINGTON—President Trump is building a Mar-a-Lago style ballroom at the White House, a $200 million addition to the East Wing that marks the former real-estate developer’s latest and most ambitious makeover of the complex.