Donald Trump boasted his deliberate White Home grand ballroom will dwarf Windsor Fort’s banquet corridor, making the jaw-dropping declare throughout a UK state go to, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The president made the brag throughout a September 2025 journey to England, the place rolled out a lavish state dinner in his honor, only one month earlier than Trump sparked outrage by ordering the White Home’s East Wing torn all the way down to kick off building on the mega-ballroom.
Royal knowledgeable and biographer Robert Hardman revealed Trump personally spilled his grand ballroom plans to him, recalling the encounter on the April 29 episode of The Royalist podcast.
“Although one factor he did inform me, we had been speaking about St George’s Corridor, the very spectacular medieval corridor the place that they had the banquet, after which he stated, ‘Truly, my ballroom goes to be greater,'” Hardman advised host Tom Sykes.
Nonetheless, the royal-loving president did not make the remark as a put-down to the corridor, which was first constructed within the 1300s.
“I do not suppose he was evaluating them in essentially the form of dimension issues” sort of means, the Elizabeth II: In Personal In Public creator famous.
Hardman identified that Trump was dazzled by the over-the-top “spectacle” of the lavish state banquet, with the jaw-dropping setting seemingly sparking inspiration for the mega-ballroom he now goals of constructing on the White Home.
The ultra-glitzy affair noticed 160 visitors, dripping in white tie and tiaras, seated on the huge 164-foot-long mahogany desk as they dined in Windsor Fort’s grandest room.
“I feel once you’re having a state banquet, it is form of the spectacle; he completely beloved his journey,” Hardman shared about Trump’s UK go to.
“He sees that, really, as a head of state, you wish to entertain in type, and so I think about that is the pondering behind this ballroom on the White Home,” the royal knowledgeable noticed.
Hardman identified that Trump has an enormous ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Seashore, Florida, and that the person likes to play host and entertain, saying, “It is a president who does wish to have a celebration.”
Trump has lengthy griped concerning the White Home’s lack of a correct show-stopping area to host international dignitaries and A-list energy gamers.
The go-getting president took issues into his personal palms, locking in non-public donations to bankroll a sprawling 90,000-square-foot mega-ballroom.
Trump angered critics in October 2025 when he had the East Wing torn all the way down to make room for the occasion area that can embody seating for as much as 900 or 1,000 visitors.
At present, cramped state dinners are squeezed into the State Eating Room — which holds simply 140 visitors — or the East Room, which tops out at round 200 to 260 attendees, with the latter internet hosting the state banquet for King Charles III and Queen Camilla on April 28.
Trump lamented that the ballroom wasn’t practically full in time for Charles and Camilla’s go to.
“We’re having King Charles come. He’s a buddy of mine. We’re actually wanting ahead to it… let you know, if I had that ballroom constructed it might be full. I want we had extra seats,” he advised reporters on April 24 about how his under-construction ballroom might maintain greater than 700 further visitors.
The president went on to notice how ridiculous it’s that the White Home would not have such a correct entertaining area, including, “You recognize, they’ve needed a brand new ballroom for 150 years, and now they’re getting the very best on the earth.”