Trump rambles from his under-construction White House ballroom after Election Day disaster

President Donald Trump’s first public appearance after devastating Republican losses in midterm elections was on the bare floor of his under-construction White House ballroom.Trump — whose closing campaign message was delivered from his recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday afternoon — did not mention his party’s blowout loses and Democrats’ historic victories that will see his opposing party winning both chambers of Congress as he spoke about the ballroom, uninterrupted, for more than 15 minutes.Instead, he rambled about his multi-million dollar ballroom project while microphone feedback repeatedly screeched into the public address system.“I grew up with you … Maybe in a different form, maybe genetically, maybe it was your fathers or your mothers, but I grew up with construction sites,” he said at one point.After demolishing the East Wing of the White House, Trump envisioned an ornate White House ballroom stuffed with gold finishes and marble floors to replace it. But court filings over the last several months have detailed what officials called “top secret” designs that revealed the primary purpose of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom project.The ballroom is “a knitted, unified, cohesive part of the East Wing Project, which is vital for National Security, and is being constructed to ensure that the President can perform his constitutional duties in a safe and heavily secured facility,” government lawyers wrote in court documents this summer.Trump’s first morning-after reaction to massive Democratic victories in midterm elections saw him revisiting some of his favorite headlines.The president posted images of the print edition of The New York Post’s Tuesday story hailing the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” and his strongman, military-driven foreign policy dominating the Western Hemisphere by killing hundreds of people accused of trafficking drugs and launching a military operation to arrest Venezuela’s ousted leader Nicolàs Maduro.It was Trump’s first post to his social media platform after election night, which also saw him call into Fox News to muse about the results after he complained about the network’s coverage.Trump has repeatedly distance himself from Tuesday’s losses, claiming that his party would have fared better if his name was on the ballot. “I wasn’t on the ballot, and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday evening.He said the same to reporters from inside the ballroom site on Wednesday.This is a developing story