The president’s announcement of a massive White House ballroom comes 15 years after the Obama administration scorned his offer to build them a lavish new event space. Way back in 2011, Donald Trump told ABC News in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that the previous year,

Construction will begin in September on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, his press secretary announced Thursday, fulfilling a 15-year ambition by the president to construct an event space on the White House grounds that expands the building’s entertaining capacity — but also resembles the gilded spaces of his private clubs.

It will be the latest change introduced to what’s known as “The People’s House” since the Republican president returned to office in January. It also will be the first structural change to the Executive Mansion itself since the addition of the Truman balcony in 1948.