Donald Trump has pointed to the upcoming state visit of the King to highlight the need for a £301 million ballroom at the White House.

The US President argued the development was necessary to entertain a large number of people when hosting foreign dignitaries and world leaders.

The 90,000-square-foot project, which saw the East Wing torn down last October, has been the subject of a legal challenge in a bid to halt construction.

He said: “That’s a big dig. We’re building a ballroom. Every president has said can we have a ballroom please, a room where you could have a lot of people?

“So when the president of China, France, when somebody comes over from the UK, including the King, we have the King coming over very shortly, King Charles, so we can have, like, a large room, because the White House is incredible, but it never had a ballroom.”