The president, he said, can’t stay on topic, and is fixated on his White House ballroom rather than Americans’ affordability concerns. El-Sayed has spoken out against the influence of pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, which spent heavily on his primary opponent, Haley Stevens. Kevin Lamarque/REUTERSThe White House ballroom has been under construction since last October, when Trump had the 123-year-old East Wing leveled to make room for it. In a revealing admission, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that month that the project was Trump’s “main priority.” Trump has often shared renderings of the planned White House ballroom, which would dwarf the East Wing it is replacing.