Trump’s $400 million ballroom fight reveals what’s really being built beneath the White House

After Trump’s plan to build a lavish ballroom next to the White House hit a major roadblock, the president is asking the highest court in the land to give his construction the green light once again. On Friday, the Trump administration sent an emergency filing to the Supreme Court claiming that a mandated freeze on the ballroom’s construction amounts to a national security threat. If the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, August 21 is the last day that the project — very much underway in the…