The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat on Thursday tore into White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt after apparently thinking she said the $300 million ballroom under construction is President Donald Trump’s “main priority.”

“Honestly, you can’t make this s--- up,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted Thursday afternoon in response to a clip from Leavitt’s daily press briefing.

But Leavitt wasn’t saying the ballroom is Trump’s top priority overall, which led the White House to call Schumer “a scumbag and a liar.”

Leavitt was responding to a question about whether Trump had any other White House construction plans besides the ballroom and the Rose Garden that was paved over.

“Not to my knowledge, no,” Leavitt said. “But he is a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart

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