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Opinion: Donald Trump wants to build a $100-million ballroom in the White House

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Donald Trump may be eyeing the White House, but instead of measuring the drapes he’s dreaming of a giant ballroom.

‘I called up the White House about a year ago,’ the boisterous billionaire told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. ‘And I saw that they were having lots of functions for people like the president of China … and I said, ‘Listen, every time I see a function, you put an old broken canvas tent that they probably pay some guy, some local guy a fortune for.’ I said, ‘I will build you, free of charge,’ to a very high official at the White House, ‘one of the great ballrooms of the world,’ ‘ Trump said.

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The official was David Axelrod, who confirmed with ABC that the proposed ballroom would be a lot like the gaudy white-and-gold spectacle at Trump’s 118-room, 65,000-square-foot-plus Palm Beach, Fla., estate, Mar-A-Lago.

Trump says such a room would cost ‘maybe $100 million. Anywhere from $50 to $100 million.’

What good is being a billionaire if you can’t allow yourself some wiggle room when building a ballroom?

Trump says he would bring in the world’s top 10 architects, set up a committe, and then be democratic about the much-needed ballroom with the eight- or nine-figure price tag.

‘We’ll pick the one that everybody agrees, because it’s a little delicate,’ Trump, who has recently been a fixture on TV talk shows, said. ‘You know, it is the White House, after all.’

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