Trump Ballroom plans "I am the Code" (POTUS 47 fires James McCrery II after insisting on designs that violate fire / safety codes)

further updating (Sept. 23, 2026)

Washington POST dot-com

SARAH BLASKEY, JONATHAN
o'CONNELL story

POTUS 47 clashed with Ballroom

ARCHITECT who warned that the

designs violated fire/safety codes

TRUMP Reveals New Look for White House Ballroom

Palm Sunday night on Air Force One -- March 29, 2026

Proposed architectural sketches have been altered after 

major withering criticisms of unneeded grand staircase

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"Rubber Stamp" supervision committee is expected to

approve plans anyway week of April 6 - 10, 2026

NYTimes.com/ Trump-White-House-ballroom-plans.html

UPDATES -- on to MARCH 5 and even further to April 2, 2026

before a FINAL VOTE can be tested in the

Trump-friendly commission whose consent is required.

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the FINE ARTS panel that is by rule

where plans for remodeling / building new Ballrooms

for 1600 Pennsylvania are to take suggestions

and adjust the "blueprints"

was postponed Wed. Jan. 14, 2026

NYTimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/

fine-arts-panel-trump-ballroom.html

Thursday Jan. 8, 2026 will be the first of several

meetings of the dual commissions (Planning for 

National Capital

and the Fine Arts) that must view publicly the plans

for the TRUMP Ballroom slated to be built quickly

from the donations of billionaire donors and BFFs

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WASHINGTON POST online article

"Trump is reconstituting

FINE ARTS panel due to 

review the Trump Ballroom

plans, demolition, work over

2026 weeks - months"

1/2/2026 online article

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Jan. 2026

The Governmental supervisory / oversight group

will meet early next year to review the

demolition of the East Wing

(1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.);

the 90,000 sq. foot ballroom will

be the primary topic . . .