Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he's building on the site of the former East Wing to mount a defense for the project that has hit a speed bump in Congress.

On Tuesday, as part of a weird press conference, Donald Trump again endorsed a Republican effort to secure public funding for “security” measures related to the president’s ballroom vanity project.

“They have a massive drone capacity,” Trump said, adding, “Not only is it ‌drone-proof, if a drone hits it, ‌it bounces off, it won’t have any impact. But it’s also meant as a drone port that would pr...