{"id":499530,"date":"2026-02-06T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-meets-with-white-house-preservation-committee-amid-controversy-over-ballroom\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:50:43","slug":"trump-meets-with-white-house-preservation-committee-amid-controversy-over-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-meets-with-white-house-preservation-committee-amid-controversy-over-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets with White House Preservation Committee amid controversy over Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Washington<\/strong>.- United States President Donald Trump announced this Friday that he had held the first meeting with the Committee for the Preservation of the White House amid controversy over the construction of the Ballroom for which it has been necessary to demolish the East Wing of the building.\n\n\"<strong>It went really well<\/strong>\", Trump wrote about the meeting on his Truth account, \"<strong>they are wonderful people who love the building and love our country even more<\/strong>\".<\/p>\n\nThe president detailed that during the visit \"I showed them the Lincoln Bedroom, the Queens' Room, the Yellow Oval, the Map Room, the East Room and other places. They loved everything.\"\n\nTrump closes the message with an eloquent \"<strong>After many years, the White House is being valued and cared for as it deserves!<\/strong>\".\n\nThe White House renovation has become one of the obsessions of the American president, who takes every opportunity to boast about the changes and the legacy he will leave in the presidential complex.\n\nThe construction of the new complex, which is designed to accommodate between 650 and a thousand guests for dinners and state events, began with a cost of about 200 million dollars, but has been rising in design revisions to around 400 million dollars.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-propuso-nombre-aeropuertos\/\">Trump proposed naming airports after himself<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nFrom the White House, they assure that the work is financed with private contributions from donors and the president himself, \"at no cost to the taxpayer.\"\n\nIn addition to the issue of funding, the construction of the Ballroom has generated criticism due to the risk that it visually competes with the main building of the White House.\n\nAlso this week it was learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DonaldJTrumpforPresident\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DonaldJTrumpforPresident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump <\/a>plans to erect a statue of Christopher Columbus on the presidential grounds as part of his 'antiwoke' crusade.\u00a0","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington.- United States President Donald Trump announced this Friday that he had held the first meeting with the Committee for the Preservation of the White House amid controversy over the construction of the Ballroom for which it has been necessary to demolish the East Wing of the building. &#8220;It went really well&#8221;, Trump wrote about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-499530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c41b7d2513f99fce290b3781fa561c1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499531,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499530\/revisions\/499531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}