During a 2011 roast, then-President Barack Obama predicted what the White House might look like if Donald Trump ever moved in. With Trump's recent demolition of the East Wing to make room for a massive ballroom,

Does a photo show demolition done to the White House by Barack Obama to install an indoor basketball court? No, that's not true: A black and white photo shows the West Wing expansion project conducted by President Franklin Roosevelt

How much Barack Obama actually spent on his White House renovations explained as US President Donald Trump’s $300,000,000 changes spark major fury online.

Trump administration responds to ballroom criticism by posting White House timeline that includes cocaine discovery, Muslim Brotherhood visit and Clinton scandal.

Ironically, Trump’s dream of building a White House ballroom dates back to the Obama administration. While campaigning for president in 2016, Trump said he reached out to former White House senior advisor to President Obama, David Axelrod, and offered to work with the nation’s top developers to build a ballroom “free of charge.”

Obama, a keen basketball player, adapted an existing outdoor tennis court at the White House for basketball by adding hoops and lines.

President Donald Trump's $200M ballroom joins a long list of White House renovations spanning 223 years, from President Theodore Roosevelt's West Wing to modern updates.

The most sweeping intervention before Trump’s was the Truman Reconstruction of 1948–1952, a project so ambitious that only the White House’s iconic exterior walls were left standing. By 1948, decades of patchwork repairs, design flaws and war damage left the mansion structurally unsound, according to the White House Historical Association.

First intended as an entrance for social events, the East Wing became the first lady's office space. Historians say the shift was a key part of professionalizing staff for the president's wife.