Better than anyone · Second term · № 54
Knows construction 'better than anybody'
“Well, I love it. I know it better than anybody.”
- Said
- , Remarks on installing new White House flagpoles and exchange with reporters
- Subject
- construction
- Topic
- Infrastructure
- Era
- Second term
What the record showed
Repeats: July 27, 2025 ('no President knew how to build a ballroom'), September 2, 2025 ('I think nobody knows more about construction than me'), March 19, 2026 ('I know more about contractors than any human being maybe that's ever lived'), June 10, 2026 on swimming pools ('Only a person that does it, like me'), and August 20, 2026 ('I was very good at real estate, like maybe the best, in a lot of ways. I did it better than anybody, I think'). Fortune reported the White House ballroom was announced in July 2025 at $200 million and rose to $400 million; East Wing demolition began in October 2025, and the White House budgeted $377 million for repairs in fiscal 2026 plus $174 million more for fiscal 2027.
Sources
- Remarks on the Installation of New White House Flagpoles and an Exchange With Reporters
- Remarks Following a Meeting With President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission in South Ayrshire, United Kingdom
- Remarks on the Relocation of U.S. Space Command Headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, and an Exchange With Reporters
- Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of Japan and an Exchange With Reporters
- Remarks on Signing the Secure America Act and an Exchange With Reporters
- Donald Trump gives update on White House helipad, ballroom construction amid legal battle
- A $400 million ballroom was just the beginning. Now, Trump plans to spend $174 million more on renovations