Trump celebrated the legal victory in a Monday post on Truth Social.
“I am pleased to report that the United States Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of the Ballroom/Military Complex being built without any further contingency, doubt, or threat,” Trump wrote. “We are living in the Golden Age of America, and this Building will be one of the Greatest ever constructed in Washington, D.C.”
The President said the ballroom will be completed in the summer of 2028.
Legal battles
The trust filed the lawsuit in December on behalf of one of its members, Alison Hoagland, an architectural historian and preservationist who lives in Washington. Hoagland said in a declaration that she would “suffer both professional and personal injuries, including to my aesthetic, cultural and historical interests, if a ballroom of the proposed form and scale were constructed.” She argued that “an adjacent structure overshadowing the White House, exceeding it in height and massing, would diminish the primacy of the White House.”