Newsweek's new aerial images show Trump's White House ballroom—designed at 90,000 square feet against the original building's roughly 55,000, on the demolished 1902 East Wing site—dwarfing the existing White House as construction continues. The article recounts the project's path from its May 2025 announcement through court battles, Democrats' vows to scrutinize its corporate donors and investigate its financing, and quoted reactions from Trump, Representative James Clyburn, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, and Norman Ornstein, who wants 2028 candidates to pledge to tear down the "monstrosity."