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In a new interview, Trump dismissed criticism that his White House ballroom project is a distraction from more pressing issues.

“Most of my time is doing other things, like the markets, Iran, Venezuela, the military. A lot of people who don’t do construction, it drives them crazy. For me, it’s actually relaxing because I’m really good at it," he said in an interview with New York magazine published this morning.

Trump said that he meets once a week, for an hour or longer, about the ballroom construction and said that he hopes one day it will be named after him. “It should,” he said. “I don’t know if it will, but it should.”

The interview included an impromptu tour of the White House grounds to visit the ballroom construction site and the helipad construction. Trump said this week that the helipad construction is finished. Meanwhile, the president has said the ballroom’s construction will be finished in the summer of 2028.

In the interview, Trump again stressed the security importance of the ballroom, saying there is “not much” of an alternative bunker and that with…

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