The United States featuring Israel has been at war with Iran for six whole months now.
And sure, like the president cares, but sometimes it seems like he cares more about his ballroom.
He wanted to talk about it when he was supposed to be doing a Medal of Honor ceremony back in March.
I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.
And when you hear all that hammering out there, you know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly.
Sometimes he uses foul language to describe what the White House looked like before he showed up with his bulldozer.
Normally I would have said it was a shithouse, but I don't want to say that.
But just listen to how happy he sounded talking about it Monday at a back-to-school event.
The kids could see construction.
I love the sound of construction.
Like the president, we here at Today Explained from Vox are going to talk at length about the ballroom
because we got a lot of ballroom drama.
We got cost drama.
We got who's footing the bill drama.
We got legal drama.
We even got implication drama coming up.
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