Opinion: Trump Wants to Build a New Ballroom When We Already Have a Better One

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images The national capital already has a bigger, more beautiful ballroom than the $400 million one that President Donald Trump is seeking to build at the White House. The existing Great Hall at the 144-year-old National Building Museum is 36,636 square feet and its ceiling rises from 75 feet by the entrance to 159 feet under the atrium. Trump’s Grand Ballroom is at most 25,000 square feet, with a 40-foot ceiling. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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