ABC News contributor and presidential historian Mark Updegrove says President Donald Trump "is trying to make the White House in his image."

President Donald Trump’s project to build an expansive new White House ballroom officially broke ground Monday. Crews tore down the East Wing in only four days, despite Trump’s claim that the ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building.

Well before the ballroom project became a reality, Trump had made his mark on the White House with gold decorations in the Oval Office, a paved-over Rose Garden reminiscent of his

Trump realized his longtime dream by remaking a planning board and taking advantage of permitting oddities. ‘You have zero zoning conditions. You‘re the president.’

You know how the fabulous refurbishment of the White House, to include the greatest ballroom ever, will supposedly have “zero cost” to us taxpayers? Nope — sorry.

The White House told Fox News Digital that any announcement on a name for President Trump's White House ballroom will come directly from Trump.

Earlier that day, ABC News Washington managing editor Katherine Faulders had posted on social media that the president would “likely name the new $300 million ballroom