In First Speech After Midterm Loss, Trump's 'Magnificent' Ballroom Monologue

The day after voters took Congress away from his party, Donald Trump invited reporters to look around a building site. His first public appearance after the election results was a tour of his White House ballroom.

He turned to the vote only when a reporter asked him about it.Speaking on Wednesday afternoon at the construction site of his White House ballroom, the president spent more than 41 straight minutes on the project and his other building plans. He spoke into a handheld microphone, in front of a panel signed by construction workers, at an event to sign a beam.

He went through ceiling heights, Corinthian columns and floor plans."If I put the kitchen on top, you would lose three walls," he said.US President Donald Trump stands on the day the final steel beam goes into the ballroom, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, November 4, 2026.Photo Credit: ReutersREAD | Did Iran War Cause His Party's Midterms Defeat? "Largely True," Says TrumpThe owner of the quarry did not want to sell, Trump said, but "he liked me".