Trump attempts to soften the blue tsunami blow by touting his 'crème de la crème' ballroom construction

I say to the media, these are all our construction people. We have over 500 people in the room, and this will be the ballroom. Right here is the ballroom. Over here, you're going to have magnificent columns on this side, outside, exterior columns. It's very much like the Supreme Court. They're actually taller, and they're even more magnificent. They're fabricated now. They're being carved out of beautiful limestone. And there'll be Corinthian, the Corinthian design, which is considered the creme de la creme. And there'll be, when will they be coming, you think? When? Next week. Oh, you're going to start next week. Whoa, that's good. That's way ahead, huh? That's good. You're doing good. Thank you. Thank you. How's Bo, has he done a good job? Thank you very much. And for the media, you can see the, that'll be essentially a glass, beautiful glass tube coming into the ballroom right from the east side of the White House, using the current ballroom, which is a tiny room, it holds like 90 people, using the current room for cocktails, et cetera, et cetera. So you'll have tremendous... Just a tremendous structure. It's a structure the likes of which has never been done. The ceilings are over 50 feet high. That's like a five-story building. I don't think there's any ballroom. I doubt there's a ballroom in the country with a 50-foot ceiling. You'll be able to have dinners for as many people as you want. We had King Charles here and we couldn't. we were very restricted yes he said could we uh have about 350 of our people he said we don't hold 350 we hold about 98 so having 350 is a little tough but we had president xi of china and he left two weeks ago and he was amazed when he looked at the structure he studied it with us And he also found the helipad, done by you guys also, indirectly, but the helipad's been amazing, people are, it's a great thing of beauty, and when you fly over the White House and you see it, in fact it's so good I never even got sued, because normally I get sued, don't build it, don't build it, you know, they sue me all the time, and they were doing the ark, the beautiful like the ark to triumph, but better, more beautiful actually, much more beautiful. And as you know, we're doing the National Garden of American Heroes, which will be something beautiful. And we're upgrading the Trash Island. You know what Trash Island is? It's a golf course there, but a terrible golf course. We have a problem with it yet. She wants it to stay a terrible golf course, but I don't think that'll be allowed to happen. And that'll be world, we'll have U.S. Opens. It's open to the public, it'll be open to the public, it'll be beautiful. And essentially, we've beautified Washington, D.C. We had 83 monuments, statues, etc., right, Doug, 83? We just opened up the Reflecting Pool two days ago, and it's magnificent. First time in, well, let's see, it opened in 1922, and it never worked, ever worked. It always leaked, but now it's not leaking. We had vandals, it did a lot of damage, actually, real scum. But it's now open and looks beautiful, and it's going to be with us a long time. But we did a total of 83 monuments and statues and fountains. Many had graffiti in them for 50 years. For the most part, I would say, Doug, maybe none of them worked in all of Washington. And we've beautified it. We've got rid of the homeless encampments where they took over all your parks, and we're in the process of redoing all of the grass, brand-new grass, everything. And so it will be graffiti. You see that building right over there? It had graffiti all over it. It was a disgrace. We got rid of it. It was not easy to do. You know, when you have limestone, especially, it sort of sinks in a little bit. Well, not good, right? When you have limestone. When you have granite, it's a lot easier. But so this is a special structure. It's going to be... Not only one of the biggest, but it'll be the most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere in the world. And they've been trying to get it for 150 years. And for the media, these are the people that built it. This is about 525 people, and they really worked hard.