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Read Word-for-Word: Trump's $400M White House 'Ballroom' Is Five-Story-Deep Fortress With Sniper Nests & Bomb Shelters

Supreme Court filing reveals the extraordinary security features hidden inside the massive project.

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Keeping Tabs
Aug 27, 2026
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President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House “ballroom” may sound like a glitzy place for state dinners – but buried inside a bombshell Supreme Court filing is a very different picture of what is rising beside the Executive Mansion.

The Trump administration has gone all the way to the nation’s highest court in a desperate bid to keep construction moving on the sprawling East Wing development before an injunction is set to take effect.

President Donald Trump, White House Ballroom

And in making its case, officials have revealed extraordinary details about what the project is actually designed to do.

UNLOCK THE FULL COURT DOCUMENTS BELOW:

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