During Trump's first term, Mar-a-Lago was referred to as the Southern White House. Now Trump is turning the White House a northern Mar-a-Lago.

President Trump has made several modifications to the White House that mirror his Mar-a-Lago club. A new sound system at the White House reportedly plays a music playlist similar to that heard at Mar-a-Lago events. The Oval Office has been updated with more gold decor, and the Rose Garden was paved for a patio area.

Before Donald Trump was president, before he was a reality TV star, he was a real estate developer. And since the start of his second term in January, he has gone back to those roots, making dramatic changes to the White House, both in its decor and its ...

Art historian Robert Wellington, author of “Versailles Mirrored: The Power of Luxury, Louis XIV to Donald Trump,” said the aesthetic echoes not just Versailles specifically, but a broader European palace tradition that was later co-opted by America’s Gilded Age elites.

In October, workers quickly demolished the entire East Wing of the White House — which dated back to 1942 — in order to make room for the new space. Trump later told FOX News that he “could’ve built the ballroom around” the East Wing, but that he “didn’t want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an okay ballroom.”

Earlier this evening, Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy and the grandson of Jackie and John F. Kennedy, announced his campaign for Congress. “My name is Jack Schlossberg, and I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised,” he said, officially launching his run.