White House Ballroom Plans Include 'massive' Underground Military Complex, Trump Says

President Donald Trump confirmed connected Sunday that nan subject is building a "massive complex" nether nan White House ballroom.

The accusation "has travel retired precocious because of a stupid suit that was filed, but nan subject is building a monolithic analyzable nether nan ballroom, and that’s nether construction, and we’re doing very well," Trump told reporters connected Air Force Once. "So we’re up of schedule."

News outlets previously reported that a subject bunker nether nan East Wing would beryllium renovated. The East Wing was demolished successful October for nan president's $400 cardinal ballroom, sparking disapproval from galore Democrats and preservation advocates.

Trump told reporters successful his Sunday remarks that "the ballroom fundamentally becomes a shed for what’s being built under."

The president touted nan ballroom plans, showing reporters pictures of nan creation renditions and defending nan caller arena abstraction arsenic "almost a copy to nan White House."

Showing reporters different image of nan ballroom design, Trump said, "I thought I'd do this now because it's easier."

"I’m truthful engaged that I don’t person clip to do this, but I’m fighting wars and different things," he added. "But this is very important, because this is going to beryllium pinch america for a agelong time, and it’s going to be, I deliberation it’ll beryllium nan top ballroom anyplace successful nan world."

Last month, a national judge rejected a suit from a preservationist group that sought to extremity nan Trump management from continuing building of nan 90,000 quadrate ft ballroom. The judge said that nan National Trust for Historic Preservation would person a amended chance astatine winning nan declare if nan group changed nan arguments successful nan lawsuit.

The National Capital Planning Commission is group to ballot connected nan ballroom plans successful April. It has received a deluge of antagonistic nationalist comments astir nan ballroom, pinch critics calling it "appalling," "shameful" and "hideous."