For President Donald Trump, the most ambitious construction site in Washington right now is not a bridge or an airport, but the White House itself. He holds weekly meetings where the agenda runs through window sizes, bathroom locations, the finish on door frames and the pattern of marble for the vast East Wing ballroom he has vowed to complete before leaving office, CNN reported.

Samples of stone, fabrics and fixtures are laid out in the Oval Office and the adjacent dining room. Visitors to the building – foreign leaders, members of Congress, longtime friends – are sometimes pulled into impromptu design consultations. Trump, aides say, is relishing the project as a kind of return to his original identity: not candidate or president, but developer.

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