{"id":381591,"date":"2026-09-24T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-ignored-ballroom-safety-warnings-i-am-the-code\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:00:08","slug":"trump-ignored-ballroom-safety-warnings-i-am-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-ignored-ballroom-safety-warnings-i-am-the-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ignored ballroom safety warnings: &#8216;I am the code&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/IWTUPk9AiK8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump ignored ballroom safety warnings: 'I am the code'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IWTUPk9AiK8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>New reporting from The Washington Post has revealed specific design disputes that led to the resignation of architect James McCrery II from the White House ballroom project last October. According to the report, McCrery raised concerns that Donald Trump\u2019s detailed layout demands\u2014which included expanding the ballroom space by removing service corridors\u2014compromised essential fire and safety codes. When the architect warned that the preliminary plans lacked adequate emergency exit routes, Trump reportedly contested whether building codes apply to the White House, telling McCrery, \u201cI am the code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Trump&#8217;s obsessive attention to ballroom design<br \/>\n1:59 Details of the tension between Trump and the ballroom architect<br \/>\n3:47 The code violations that led to the ballroom architect quitting<br \/>\n5:11 Why the Supreme Court allowed the ballroom construction to continue<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#Trump #Whitehouse #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New reporting from The Washington Post has revealed specific design disputes that led to the resignation of architect James McCrery II from the White House ballroom project last October. According to the report, McCrery raised concerns that Donald Trump\u2019s detailed layout demands\u2014which included expanding the ballroom space by removing service corridors\u2014compromised essential fire and safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-381591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump ignored ballroom safety warnings: &#039;I am the code&#039; | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump ignored ballroom safety warnings: &#039;I am the code&#039; for free, here on News ISC. 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