Compensation Chronicles: Donald Trump's ballroom design keeps getting bigger and bigger!

 

Compensation as defined at 1 c.

Headline:  New York Times, 11/29/2025

Luke Broadwater reports:

In offering up his initial design, Mr. McCrery could not have known that Mr. Trump’s vision for the project was growing. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350. Even as Mr. Trump assured the public in July that the ballroom would not touch the existing structure, he already had approved plans to demolish the East Wing to make way for something that could hold several thousand people, according to three people familiar with the timeline.

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