{"id":264372,"date":"2026-05-20T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=264372"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:29:58","slug":"trump-reveals-new-details-about-bunker-like-white-house-ballroom-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/264372\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reveals new details about bunker-like White House ballroom project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US President Donald Trump has disclosed previously unrevealed details about a new bunker-like White House ballroom, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The rooftop of the facility is expected to include a drone base, while the complex would also feature kitchens and offices for the first lady and her staff.<\/p>\n

Trump did not hold back in describing previously unknown ​details about the project, which at 90,000 square feet stands to dwarf the adjacent White House built ​in the late 18th century.<\/p>\n

Beneath the ballroom, a six-story underground complex is planned, which would reportedly include a military hospital and research centers, although Trump did not specify what type of research would be conducted there.<\/p>\n

He spoke excitedly about the installation of a drone base on the roof “set up for unlimited numbers ​of drones.”<\/p>\n

“The ⁠entire roof is built for military,” he said. “They have a massive drone capacity. Not only is it drone-proof, if a drone hits it, it bounces off, it won’t have any impact. But it’s also meant ⁠as a ​drone port that would protect all of Washington.”<\/p>\n

As noted, amid ‌the bang and clang of construction, Trump took a group of reporters on a tour of the project to try to bolster his argument that the US Congress should allocate $1 billion to pay for security enhancements to the building.<\/p>\n

Democrats ​and some Republicans are balking at the request, calling it extravagant as Americans grapple with ​spiraling gasoline prices and other fallout from the war on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has disclosed previously unrevealed details about a new bunker-like White House ballroom, Reuters writes. The rooftop of the facility is expected to include a drone base, while the complex would also feature kitchens and offices for the first lady and her staff. Trump did not hold back in describing previously unknown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":264327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264375,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264372\/revisions\/264375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}