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But again, it's still the White House, and it was a major part of the White House these past years.
Well, I wish I could tell you, Noelle.
I think at this point, as we're talking, Monday, October 27th, we still have not seen formal plans.
We've seen some renderings that President Trump has shared and the White House put out on a website.
But we don't know exactly what the East Wing is going to look like.
For the past week, we've been asking, will it be rebuilt?
What will it contain?
What will this ballroom that the president wants actually look like in practice?
And there are still no formal plans, which is very unusual, if not unprecedented for a major White House plan like this to go ahead with demolishing part of the building without letting us know what's going to replace it.
So President Trump has spoken all year about his desire for a ballroom at the White House.
And frankly, he's spoken about this for more than this year.
It goes all the way back to the first Obama administration.
David Axelrod, an advisor to President Obama, has said that President Trump, then Donald Trump, the builder, called and pitched him in 2010 on building a ballroom.
So we know that he has wanted to do this for a long time.
And the renderings look very much like a Trump resort.
I'm not an expert in ballrooms, Noel.
President Trump has it, his resort at Turnberry, Scotland.
But they're all kind of evocative of each other.
Lots of gold, high ceilings, big windows.
Nice as ballrooms go, but again, a major project on the campus of the White House that we still haven't seen formal plans for.