You can see why Donald Trump wants to build a “big beautiful ballroom” at the White House. At the moment he’s forced to squeeze his formal functions into the much smaller East Room in the main executive residence, where there’s barely enough space for the poor man to dance the “Y” in YMCA without accidentally uppercutting one of his corporate friends in the ear.
There’s also the tent-on-the-lawn option, but the Trump administration thinks that’s “unsightly”, presumably because it is so much harder to dress a marquee in gold – any respectable quantity of the stuff will only make the fabric sag.
Luckily the US president’s pals in the technology, cryptocurrency and defence industries are all huge fans of dancing, which is why so many of them are chipping in to the worthy cause of construct
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