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A White House aide’s new video offers a sweeping look at President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction site, where the historic East Wing once stood — revealing the staggering scale of the pit left behind.

White House communications adviser Margo Martin posted the 24-second clip Friday. It shows Trump speaking with a construction worker before the camera pans across the sprawling site, revealing towering cranes and construction equipment.

“President @realDonaldTrump checks on the progress of the White House Ballroom construction,” Martin wrote on X....

President Donald Trump left a crowd at a White House celebration confused with a bizarre remark about who could survive a fall.

Progressive political analyst David Pakman broke down the moment in a Thursday episode of "The David Pakman Show," explaining that Trump "said something so bizarre that even the crowd there to support him seemed dazed and confused about what he said."

The remark came during a Hispanic Heritage Month event at the White House, where Trump was touting his new ballroom. He described it as "the greatest ballroom ever built" and said, "It's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top."...

President Donald Trump's claim that wealthy donors will fund the White House ballroom continues to unravel, as reports unearth the real cost to taxpayers.

"Trump has been lying the whole time with full knowledge of the cost and the cost to taxpayers," political analyst Brian Tyler Cohen said, pointing to new reporting by The Washington Post.

The Post looked at early project cost estimates by the contractor tasked with building the ballroom and found that it will cost about $600 million, with about half of that coming from taxpayers....