A federal panel made up of President Donald Trump’s appointees has approved his plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the former White House East Wing.

The Commission of Fine Arts voted on Thursday to approve the design plan for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom.

"The president has actually designed a very beautiful structure," commission Chair Rodney Mims Cook Jr. declared, adding that "the United States just should not be entertaining the world in tents. It ...