Trump Fires Back at Michelle Obama Over White House Renovation

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00:00Trump fires back at Michelle Obama over White House renovation.

00:04President Donald Trump is pushing back against former First Lady Michelle Obama's criticism of his plan

00:10to replace the White House East Wing with a new state-of-the-art ballroom,

00:14a project he says will elevate the presidential residence to one of the greatest in the world.

00:20According to Fox News, during an interview on Monday with Laura Ingraham,

00:23Trump defended the controversial redesign, which is being funded entirely by private donors.

00:30The East Wing is being spent by private donors.

00:33It's a $250 million to $300 million building.

00:36It's going to be the most beautiful anywhere in the world, he said.

00:40Trump argued that the new addition was long overdue,

00:43claiming the current space was woefully inadequate for major state functions.

00:47With tables, they could hold 79 people, he said.

00:51Now, if you have President Xi from China, or if you have some big state event,

00:56we have no place to have it.

00:57They will put a tent on the lawn.

00:58If it rained, you were sitting in six inches of water.

01:02It was a disaster.

01:04The project has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats,

01:07including Representative Eric Swalwell, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,

01:11and former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

01:15But it was Michelle Obama's pointed remarks that drew Trump's response.

01:19When we talk about the East Wing, it is the heart of the work of a First Lady, Obama told Vanity Fair.

01:26And to denigrate it, to tear it down, to pretend like it doesn't matter,

01:31it's a reflection of how you think of that role.

01:34During a separate NBC interview, she added,

01:36Trump dismissed the backlash as misplaced nostalgia,

01:44arguing that the East Wing's historic character had already been compromised.

01:48That building was renovated 20 times, including adding a floor to the top, which was terrible, he said.

01:54It had nothing to do with the original building,

01:57and I didn't want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an okay ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle.

02:03The 90,000 square foot expansion will mark the first formal ballroom in White House history,

02:08and will follow the mansion's classical design.

02:10Trump insisted the change would preserve the legacy of the White House,

02:14while modernizing it for the global stage.

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