00:00I say to the media, these are all our construction people.
00:03We have over 500 people in the room, and this will be the ballroom.
00:09Right here is the ballroom.
00:10Over here, you're going to have magnificent columns on this side.
00:14Outside, exterior columns, very much like the Supreme Court.
00:17They're actually taller, and they're even more magnificent.
00:23They're fabricated now.
00:24They're being carved out of beautiful limestone.
00:27And there'll be Corinthian, the Corinthian design, which is considered the creme de la creme.
00:35And there'll be, when will they be coming, you think?
00:39When?
00:40Next week.
00:41Oh, you're going to start next week.
00:42Whoa, that's good.
00:44That's way ahead, huh?
00:45That's good.
00:45You're doing good.
00:47Thank you, Bo.
00:48How's Bo?
00:48Has he done a good job?
00:58And for the media, you can see the, that'll be essentially a glass, beautiful glass tube
01:04coming into the ballroom right from the east side of the White House, using the current
01:11ballroom, which is a tiny room, it holds like 90 people, using the current room for cocktails,
01:17et cetera, et cetera.
01:18So you'll have tremendous, it's just a tremendous structure.
01:22It's a structure the likes of which has never been done.
01:25The ceilings are over 50 feet high.
01:28That's like a five-story building.
01:30And I don't think there's any ballroom.
01:32I doubt there's a ballroom in the country with a 50-foot, 50-foot ceiling.
01:36And you'll be able to have dinners for as many people as you want.
01:39We had King Charles here, and we could, we were very restricted.
01:44He said, could we have about 350 of our people?
01:48He said, we don't hold 350, we hold about 98.
01:52So having 350 is a little tough.
01:55But we had President Xi of China, and he left two weeks ago, and he was amazed when he looked
02:01at the structure.
02:02He studied it with us.
02:04And he also found the helipad, done by you guys also, indirectly.
02:08But the helipad's been amazing.
02:11People are, it's a great thing of beauty.
02:13And when you fly over the White House and you see it, in fact, it's so good I never even
02:17got sued, because normally I get sued.
02:19Don't build it, don't build it.
02:20You know, they sue me all the time.
02:23And then we're doing the arc, the beautiful, like the arc to triumph, but better, more beautiful,
02:28actually, much more beautiful.
02:30And as you know, we're doing the National Garden of American Heroes, which will be something
02:34beautiful.
02:35And we're upgrading the Trash Island.
02:39You know what Trash Island is?
02:40It's the golf course.
02:41They have a terrible golf course.
02:43We have a problem with it.
02:44She wants it to stay a terrible golf course.
02:47But I don't think that'll be allowed to happen.
02:50And that'll be world, we'll have U.S. opens.
02:53It's open to the public.
02:54It'll be open to the public.
02:55It'll be beautiful.
02:55And essentially, we beautified Washington, D.C.
02:58We had 83 monuments, statues, et cetera.
03:02Right, Doug?
03:03We just opened up the reflecting pool two days ago, and it's magnificent.
03:07First time in, well, let's see, it opened in 1922.
03:11And it never worked.
03:12Ever worked.
03:13It always leaked.
03:14But now it's not leaking.
03:15We had vandals.
03:16It did a lot of damage, actually.
03:19Real scum.
03:21But it's now open and looks beautiful.
03:24And it's going to be with us a long time.
03:26But we did a total of 83 monuments and statues and fountains.
03:32Many had graffiti in them for 50 years.
03:36For the most part, I would say, Doug, maybe none of them worked in all of Washington.
03:40And we beautified it.
03:42We've got rid of the homeless encampments where they took over all your parks.
03:46And we're in the process of redoing all of the grass, brand-new grass, everything.
03:51And so it will be graffiti.
03:53You see that building right over there?
03:55It had graffiti all over it.
03:56It was a disgrace.
03:57We got rid of it.
03:58It's not easy to do.
03:59You know, when you have limestone, especially, it sort of sinks in a little bit.
04:04Well, not good, right?
04:05When you have limestone.
04:06When you have granite, it's a lot easier.
04:09But so this is a special structure.
04:12It's going to be not only one of the biggest, but it'll be the most beautiful ballroom, I
04:17think, anywhere in the world.
04:19And they've been trying to get it for 150 years.
04:21And for the media, these are the people that built it.
04:24This is about 525 people.
04:27And they really worked hard.
04:29And they're the people that built it to be the people that built it to be the people that
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