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Trump pulls back curtain on secret complex under White House ballroom
Trump Pulls Back Curtain On Secret Complex Under White House Ballroom
In a candid exchange aboard Air Force One on Sunday, President Donald Trump said that the new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom is merely the surface layer of a much larger, “massive” subterranean military installation.“Now the military is building a big complex under the ballroom,” Trump stated. “But the military’s building a massive complex under the ballroom. And that’s under construction and we’re doing very well. So we’re ahead of schedule. That’s part of it. The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under the military, including from drones.”The president’s comments provide the first official acknowledgment of the scale of the underground works. According to Trump, the facility is designed to meet modern security threats and capacity limitations at the aging White House. He emphasized that the site is being outfitted with high-grade bulletproof glass and “drone-proof” roofs and ceilings.“When we have dignitaries coming, like President Xi of China or anybody else, we have very small rooms; they’re not big enough to handle the kind of capacity that you...
