White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt finally revealed details and shared images about plans for a grand ballroom on the White House grounds complex, following President Donald Trump's announcement earlier this week about the upcoming expansion.
During a White House press briefing on Thursday, Leavitt announced that construction will begin in September on the new 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House.
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"The White House state ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of innately designed and carefully crafted space with a seated capacity of 650 people," Leavitt told the press. "Which is a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House."
She said, over the last few weeks, Trump has held meetings with numerous departments to discuss design features and planning. Leavitt said he's also chosen McCrery Architects as the lead architect, which is based in Washington, D.C. She said the company is well known for "classical architectural design."
"The WH Ballroom construction will begin in Sept of 2025, and it is expected to be completed long before the end of President Trump's term," Leavitt shared. "President Trump and other donors have committed to donate funds necessary to build this 200 million infrastructure."
"The White House ballroom will substantially be separated from the main building of the White House," she added. "But, at the same time, its theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical. The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed and reconstructed East Wing currently sits."
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In a press release about the project, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said that:
"President Trump is a builder at heart and has an extraordinary eye for detail. The President and the Trump White House are fully committed to working with the appropriate organizations to preserving the special history of the White House while building a beautiful ballroom that can be enjoyed by future Administrations and generations of Americans to come."
Leavitt then shared renderings and drawings of the ballroom, both the interior and exterior, that can be seen below.
More images can be seen here.
Thursday's announcement follows Trump's on Tuesday, when he said changes were coming to the White House with a grand ballroom, as RedState reported.
During his interview on the "Pod Force One" podcast with Miranda Devine, the president and host discussed some of the grand ballrooms of Europe, and Trump said it was well past time to have one built at the people's house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, D.C.
"In the White House, as you know, for 150 years, they've wanted to have a ballroom. They don't have a ballroom," Trump explained. "They have meeting rooms. They have those beautiful ... beautiful meeting rooms."
"But they've never had a ballroom," he added. "A ballroom, meaning someplace you can sit 6 or 700 people if the President of China or France, or the U.K., or [EU President] Ursula von der Leyen comes to town, you give them a big state dinner. We don't have a room like that. At the White House, they have to use a tent."
"And if it's raining, it's soaking wet, soggy, the area is a very low area, and all the water rushes to it. And it's a disaster," Trump continued. "So, I said, you know if I win this second time, I'm gonna build a ballroom. A beautiful ballroom for the White House. And they need that at the White House. They can't do the kinds of things they like to do in their big room. Which is a beautiful reception room, but not as a ballroom."
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