Public rejects Trump’s ballroom by wide margin

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/30/washington-post-poll-trump-ballroom/

Americans reject President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, and they appear largely unmoved by the intensified calls from the president and his allies in Congress to allow the project to go forward.

The president’s planned 250-foot arch and a Treasury Department plan to put Trump’s signature on paper money are also unpopular.

Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose Trump’s decision to tear down the White House’s East Wing to make way for his planned ballroom, funded by about $400 million in private donations, while 28 percent support the project. That is the same division found in an October poll. Reactions are split among partisan lines; about two-thirds of Republicans support the project, while 61 percent of independents and 87 percent of Democrats oppose it.

“It’s astonishing what’s going on,” said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), who has criticized the ballroom and arch projects, as well as Trump’s efforts to brand his name across the government. “He has no respect for anybody, any memory, any history. It’s all about him.”