President Donald Trump’s in-progress White House ballroom will likely bear his name.

The controversial construction project, which required tearing down the 123-year-old East Wing, is already being called “The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom,” ABC News reported Friday, citing senior administration officials.

Trump, when asked Thursday about what the ballroom would be named, grinned and replied: “I won’t get into that now.”

The move would be an outlier, since other White House rooms that bear the names of presidents were designated as such after they had died.

It wasn’t until 1945, for instance, that the Lincoln Bedroom got its name, the White House Historical Association notes. Likewise with the adjacent Lincoln Sitting Room.

The Roosevelt Room, named for both Franklin Delano Roos

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