Also, to give Mr. Trump all benefit of the doubt, maybe his ballroom vision is not primarily about ego.  

Maybe he just wants to feel more at home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  If so, adding the ballroom could be just his way of making his current digs feel more like Mar-a-Lago—similar to those faux-gilded outsized boogers he’s stuck up all over walls of the Oval Office, only on a bigger scale.  

After all, Mar-a-Lago does have a ballroom that dwarfs Trump’s living quarters and offices.  Do we have the heart to deny a sentimental softy the comfort of making the White House feel more “homey” (in the unusual view of a multi-billionaire claiming to represent the values and essence of the common man)?