Katty Kay
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layering and a whole load of other things that's going to be an underground bunker and it's going to be for security provisions.
Donald Trump did come back from China saying China has a ballroom and so we should have a ballroom too.
It clearly clocked that China had a big ballroom.
But two things are in question.
The financing is in question.
Where is it actually going to come from?
And I don't think anyone would argue that security provisions for government buildings, particularly for the White House, is something that everybody should look at and they should be financed, but they have to be appropriate security provisions.
But I think it's your question is the bigger one right now, Antony.
Are we going to be there with some kind of great big hole in the ground until Trump leaves office?
At the moment, Donald Trump seems as focused on the reflecting pool and painting that American flag blue as
And there are already questions about that because some of the blue shades are different from some of the other blue shades and are workers getting kind of noxious fumes.
That seems to be the focus of his attention.
If you look at his feed, that is what he's sending out pictures of at the moment because I guess he thinks that's getting done.
But I wouldn't be totally surprised if this whole ballroom project gets so caught up in financing issues and legal issues because should he have actually pulled down the East Wing, which was a historic part of the...
And then what happens?
Let's do some role play.
Mr. 48th President of the United States, Anthony Scaramucci, what would you like to do with the East Wing, the erstwhile East Wing, which is now actually a big hole in the ground?
You're president.
Deidre has not been told about this, but you are now president.
And you're putting what, the ballroom underneath the East Wing or you're putting in the East Wing?