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The Ballroom Project will need approval from the Commission of Fine Arts, which was recently reconstituted with Trump appointees.
Ballroom architect Shalom Baranis presented design drawings to the commission, but said many details are still being filled in.
Commission Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr.
told Baranis he needed to see more.
Bronis said his team is working on 3D renderings and, when pressed, said he could also produce a physical model.
The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has been something of a Trump whisperer in this second term, largely by piling on praise.
And the two met just hours after Trump's speech.
And with cameras rolling, Rutte told Trump it pained him to think that the president doubted NATO's commitment to the U.S.,
Trump now says they have a concept of a deal, though there was no mention of the U.S.
actually owning Greenland as he had been demanding.
He dodged questions about that, simply saying it would be an infinite deal.
By this point in Trump's first term, two Cabinet secretaries had left their jobs and at the White House,
A chief of staff, two communications directors, and a press secretary were among the many already gone.
This time, there's been less personnel drama, says Catherine Dunn-Tempest, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
lower and with more promotions than firings, but still sky high compared to other recent administrations.
Trump's speech in Detroit lasted more than an hour and included a lot of commentary that had nothing to do with the economy.
But on the matter of bringing down the cost of living, Trump talked about his recent pitch to have credit card companies cap interest rates at 10 percent for a year.