When President Donald Trump reflected last week on the looming construction of his White House ballroom, the longtime real estate developer was practically giddy about the lack of red tape. He noted his New York projects often took years to break ground.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump as a “builder-in-chief" amid backlash from critics over the demolition of a part of the East Wing.

Donald Trump reminisced on his very first night in the White House while holding a fundraiser in the East Room on Wednesday, October 15. "To me, there’s nothing like the White House," the president told his guests,

I don’t want to have a wasted meeting,” Trump said in comments that follow Russia's foreign secretary Sergey Lavrov's remarks that Russia is opposed to an immediate ceasefire in its war against Ukraine.