President Donald Trump is defending the growing cost of his White House ballroom project after estimated costs to complete its construction have nearly doubled. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump acknowledged that the construction project’s price tag has gone up from around $200 million to “something less than 400.” But he claimed that the end result “will be magnificent, safe, and secure.” “The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal, which would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations,” Trump said. “This was a necessary change, it was done long ago, but the Fake News failed to report it, trying to make it look like there was a cost overrun.…