Blanche rips Philadelphia district attorney over promise to blow up White House ballroom

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday ripped into the Philadelphia district attorney for suggesting that the White House ballroom would be blown to bits while noting that he was entitled to a piece of the shrapnel as a keepsake.

“The ballroom is being built. And it’s disgusting that a district attorney in Philadelphia, who, by the way, is a city with its own problems, is so focused on what the president is doing in the White House,” Blanche said during a Wednesday appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”

The attorney general’s remarks were made in response to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who is a Democrat.

“In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces. And I’m going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk,” Krasner said during a Tuesday press conference .

“And do you know what that paperweight’s going to be? It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we blow it up,” he added.

His comments echo those of his party members who have critiqued the ballroom as an illegal project that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

In total, the project is projected to cost $600 million and will be funded by a combination of taxpayer dollars and private donations.

President Trump has referred to the ballroom as a “gift” to the American people that will be equipped with state-of-the-art security features to protect future leaders and their guests from drone strikes and attacks.

“The people that are opposing the ballroom are people that, in my opinion, are very disloyal to our country,” Trump said in the Oval Office last week .

“And I think we’re doing well. I think we’re way ahead of schedule. We’re under budget. It’s going to be the most beautiful ballroom of its kind,” he said.

Meanwhile, Blanche has defended the legality of the project, arguing that existing statutes surrounding presidential authority allow for the ballroom’s construction.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has objected to that stance in court in a case that is now being reviewed by the Supreme Court.

Trump has received approval to move forward with the ballroom’s construction while justices further consider the project’s legality.