His urgency about building that ballroom became evident in his Wednesday night address:

[Sogo]

Talking about its very thick, bulletproof windows and a roof that a drone can't bomb, you know he's afraid of being taken out by the Iranians....And then came the request for more than 200 million in renovations to the historic WH, the one where he resides. All that money will probably go into fortifying that structure in equal measure as the ballroom.