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Following Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s renewed calls for his $400 million White House ballroom to be built, \u201cLate Night\u201d host Seth Meyers <\/a>torched the president\u2019s claims that the project was somehow \u201ctop secret.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,\u201d <\/span>Trump wrote in part on Truth Social<\/span><\/a> following the shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner on Saturday. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWhat do you mean it\u2019s top secret? You talk about it all the time. That\u2019s the opposite of top secret,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cYou\u2019ve literally held up poster boards with designs for the ballroom you claim is top secret. This is militarily top secret in the same way a stealth bomber would be if it was pulling a banner that read \u2018invisible plane.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Within 24 hours of the shooting, Trump began using the incident to justify why his ballroom should be built, saying that \u201cnothing should be allowed to interfere with its construction.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWhat happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,\u201d Trump wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The ballroom has been tangled in a web of legal challenges, brought by those who claim Trump disregarded laws governing historic preservation, environmental regulation and congressional approval. <\/span>The primary challenger of the ballroom, the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation, said on Monday that it will not drop its lawsuit to halt construction. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe are not planning to voluntarily dismiss our lawsuit, which endangers no one and which respectfully asks the Administration to follow the law,\u201d Carol Quillen, the head of the trust, said in a <\/span>statement<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Watch Meyer\u2019s full \u201cA Closer Look\u201d segment from Monday night\u2019s show here: <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n