'Soulless hotel conference space': Approval for Trump's East Wing ballroom delayed amid scathing public feedback

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated Mar 5, 2026, 11:26 AM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2026, 6:00 AM ET


Approval for President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation’s capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

The National Capital Planning Commission was expected to take a final vote to approve plans for the ballroom on Thursday, marking the latest clearance for the project in a process that has been on a fast track since Trump suddenly demolished the East Wing last October. But the commission announced Thursday that the vote was postponed to April 2 "given the large amount of public input on the project."

"We’re going to take the time to deliberate, and we’re going to have a final vote on April 2," NCPC chairman and Trump aide Will Scharf said as the meeting began.

Some 9,000 pages of public comments to the NCPC released ahead of the meeting detailed major objections from Americans who expressed concerns about the project’s size and scope, cost and destruction of history, among other complaints.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/politics/trump-east-wing-ballroom-commission-vote

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[Simeon Salus]

1. Next come the video slots and wedding planners.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Isn't "soulless" Trmp's signature look ?

Oh, wait, that's his central guiding principle. Or non-principle.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Why now? Shouldn't this.......

have all been done BEFORE IQ45/47 brought in the 'dozers and jack hammers?

[IcyPeas]

4. He's also building a ballroom at his Irish golf resort Doonbeg

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-gets-his-irish-ballroom-if-he-can-save-a-snail-doonbeg/

[SergeStorms]

13. He'll lie about the snails.....

just like he lies about everything else. "Sure, I'll protect the snails." Then he'll bulldoze every dune in the country.

Never, NEVER, trust tRump's word about anything!

[sakabatou]

5. Too late, since the wing was destroyed, along with the rose garden

[groundloop]

6. Any chance this could be delayed until 2029?

When a proper architect can put together a tasteful plan and fix it the way it ought to be.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Or until

[Skittles]

11. omg Johnny

his voice was so.....dreamy

[debsy]

8. I submitted one of the thousands of comments!

And I used the word “gaudy”

[MW67]

10. Thank you

For your service!

[LudwigPastorius]

12. ...as did I.

And the phrase I was proud of was "This ballroom will be a gilded tumor on the historic, and beautiful, White House."

[BidenRocks]

9. You cannot build anything

if you don't own the land.
Being pResident does not confer ownership of anything!

If you build it we will tear it down!

OUR HOUSE!