Donald Trump has been accused by his niece, Mary Trump, of building the White House ballroom to pay tribute to himself.
The Trump family member and author suggested the president is wanting to push through with the $400million project as he believes nobody will credit him and his presidency. Speaking in a recent piece of analysis uploaded to her YouTube channel, Mary Trump shared her thoughts on the ballroom project, which had ballooned in budget from $200million to twice that amount.
Referring to a clip of a Republican representative suggesting Trump is building the ballroom to give credit to himself, Mary Trump explained how this is no laughing matter.
She said, "If you find this funny, you know it's true and you think that Donald Trump is a ridiculous buffoon who understands in some very deep way that nobody values him. Nobody will ever, ever, pay homage to him. Nobody will ever honor him when he's gone."
"If he's going to be remembered in a way that matters to him, he's going to have to build his own monuments to himself. That is how pathetic that small, little man is."
Trump and his administration were heavily criticized in the last few months for the White House ballroom project. Mikey Smith, writing in The Mirror, suggested the president is trying to remodel the White House so it looks closer to his Florida golf resort, Mar-a-Lago.
Smith wrote, "A year into his second term in office, polls make him the second most unpopular President of all time. He's spending most of his time fighting the old wars of 2020, punishing his enemies and remodelling the White House to more closely resemble Mar A Lago. He schmoozes America's enemies and alienates her allies."
"The new ballroom is just part of a gradual process throughout the year to turn the White House into Mar a Lago. Every time the Oval Office was on TV, there was a fresh gold (painted) sconce or detail somewhere."
"He paved over the rose garden to put a patio out there to match the one at his Florida resort - inviting Republicans over for dinner and glad-handing on late summer evenings. Even the two enormous flagpoles he installed on the White House lawn were identical to one he has in Palm Beach."