Watch: Donald Trump ‘takes a little walk’ on White House roof
Donald Trump shouts to reporters from the roof – Win McNamee
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As questions go, this was perhaps not the most taxing query that a twice impeached, once convicted and serially controversial president had ever faced.
“What are you doing up there?” was the enquiry reporters shouted as they craned their necks to get a better view of Donald Trump as he strolled across the roof of the White House.
At 10.45 am, the most powerful man in the world stepped through a window from the State Dining Room on to the press briefing room roof.
“Taking a little walk,” he said as confused journalists shouted various different versions of: “What on earth…?”
Snipers kept watch from the top of the West Wing.
The president surveyed the grounds of the White House from the roof – BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
Beside him stood James McCrery, the architect tasked with building a new White House ballroom, explaining the reason for the unusual site visit.
The US president pointed back towards the location of the planned extension and suggested that they were checking out the site.
“Just another way to spend my money for this country,” Mr Trump shouted down. “Anything I do is financed by me.”
Crews are due to break ground on the project next month, at a cost of more than $200m
Snipers kept watch from afar – SHAWN THEW/EPA/Shutterstock
Mr Trump says taxpayers will not foot the bill. He and donors will pick up the tab as he makes good on a plan he hatched during his first term of leaving his fingerprints on the “people’s house.”
Crews recently completed a project to pave over the Rose Garden lawn, making it better equipped to handle press conferences or other official events.
It is a reminder that Mr Trump often operates as the builder-in-chief. His background as a real estate developer means he sometimes interrupts official visits to ask about building materials or the flooring or construction techniques.
His entry into politics in 2015 famously included a bricks-and-mortar pledge.
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me,” he said as he unveiled plans to seal the southern border.
On Tuesday, that meant seeing for himself exactly how his latest White House building project will work.
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