Dan Diamond

Palantir, a major contractor here in D.C.

Lockheed Martin, Google, Comcast.

I mean, big, big companies and many companies that have business in front of the administration.

And then there are individuals like the Winklevoss brothers who are cryptocurrency entrepreneurs.

There's Stephen Schwartzman, a wealthy individual who has been a longtime Republican donor and is close to the administration.

So folks of that nature and companies that are significant and, again, have dealings in front of this administration.

And again, there is evidence that Americans support that part of this project.

The polling overall has been pretty bad, that slightly more than half of Americans don't approve the decision to demolish part of the White House.

Many are against the idea of a ballroom.

It's a desecration, really, I think.

But there is polling that shows Americans generally favor the idea that this would be funded by donors and not by taxpayers.

I saw some YouGov polling on this last week where about 52% of adults said...

These renovations should be paid for by private donors to save taxpayers money versus 19 percent who said it should be paid for by taxpayers.

So this actually is something that is falling in the White House favor when so much over the past week has not.

Well, in some ways, Noel, they're of a piece.

I was thinking about this last week when we broke the story that Trump was tearing down the East Wing.

And I was thinking about all the other things he's done to the White House, the paving over of the Rose Garden, the putting gold in the Oval Office, where, you know, I've been a couple times for work in a...

It looks like something out of Mar-a-Lago or Versailles.

I mean, there's so much gold in there now.

It's significantly different.