General Discussion

Remove the gilt that will likely be there and replace it with the quiet tasteful molding similar to what the White House had. Then restructure the huge room to be a more moderate dining room for state dinners and a White House museum could fill the rest.

Many smaller museums have areas people can use for weddings etc. This could, especially if redone specifically to support it, work nicely as a museum and a place for state dinners.

Trump size is probably way too large as it would lose the intimacy, for lack of a better word, of previous state dinners. Remember that some past state dinners were in large tents on the ground that probably will be where the ballroom is.

This would be a gracious way to create a space more in keeping with the White House, but using what can be used. What I still would not like is that the design creates a building higher than the White House. As the White House is iconic, it would be better if the addition were done in a way that made it not visible from the front. That does not seem to be the plan.

The other hard thing to do is to get rid of the patio that looks more like a generic patio around a resort pool. The grace and beauty of the rose garden added to the White House. The patio cheapens it.