Politics Construction continues on the White House ballroom. Ken Cedeno/Reuters Everybody knows about President Donald Trump’s ballroom. We saw the bulldozers tear down the East Wing of the White House, the many renderings of what the new structure is going to look like. Each version getting comically bigger, those staircases on the side that one can only imagine were generated by ChatGPT, leading to nowhere. It’s one of many vanity projects Trump has taken on since being inaugurated last January. He’s proposed a 250-foot arch in front of Arlington National Cemetery, redoing the reflecting pool , and even adding his face to passports and coins . While some of these are easily reversible with the next president, Trump is trying to make a statement of sorts. “ He’s really interested in the bragging rights of the moment,” said Michael Scherer, a journalist at the Atlantic.…