Rumored rendering of Trump’s planned White House ballroom isn’t what it seems

Claim:

One image shows an official presentation of the White House’s official presentation of the Planned Ballroom expansion of US President Donald Trump.

Rating:

Shortly after US President Donald Trump announced his plans To build a large ballroom At the end of July 2025, people began to share their views on the plan on social media. Some of these articles like one have been viewed more than 6 million on x (archived), The main building of the White House, which dwarf contained an image that seemed to be a proposed expansion.

The image was shared on social media sites, for example Threads (archived,), Reddit (archived) And Instagram (archived). Some articles (archived) claimed that Render was a picture.

This image was not the fact that the White House’s plans for a ballroom expansion plans were presented in a real official; It was an image created by AI.

The image did not appear in any of the rendering present in any of them. White House page (archived– archived) The ballroom is dedicated to expansion. The project did not appear on the website for the architects of the project, McCrery Architectsnor can the project cannot be found on the websites for construction or engineering teams, Clark Construction And AecomBoth of them were not special pages for the expansion of the ballroom as of August 7, 2025.

The oldest version of the image that Snopes could find was passed through August 1. Threads (archived). Frances Mercanti-Anthony, who sent the image, said in his article that he wanted to add a ballroom of 90,000 square meters to the 55,000 square meter White House. “

It is unlikely that an official rendering will have some errors that can be found by Mercanti-Anthony.

The ballroom is planned to be approximately 90,000 feet square “According to the White House, it was significantly separated from the main building of the White House as an expansion of the eastern wing.

The eastern wing is on the right side of the White House, direction The national shopping center that is a party visible In the image produced by AI. However, the ballroom in this image appears on the left side of the main building where the main building will be located and “significantly separated from the main building”.

The main building of the White House includes 55,000 feet square floor areas, except for the wings. White House History Association. Given the recommended size of the ballroom, it would probably look larger than the main building, but it didn’t seem like this. Official rendering.

Resources:

“Clark Construction Group – Building and Civil Construction.” Clark Constructionwww.clarkconstruction.com/. Access 7 August 2025.

“McCrery Architects.” McCrery Architectswww.mccreryarchitects.com/. Access 7 August 2025.

Mercanti-Anthony, Frances. “I asked the chatgpt to add a ballroom of 90,000 square meters …” ThreadsAugust 1, 2025, www.threads.com/@msfrancesma/post/dmz0i1gimoz. Access 7 August 2025.

“Projects.” Aecomaecom.com/projects/. Access 7 August 2025.

White House. “White House started the White House Ballroom Construction.” White HouseJuly 31, 2025, www.whiteahouse.gov/brieffings-statents/2025/07/the-white-house-onnouns-white-house-llroom Access 7 August 2025.

“Visit the White House.” White Housewww.whitehouse.gov/visit/. Access 7 August 2025.