While First Lady Melania Trump stopped short of publicly criticizing her husband's demolition of the White House's East Wing to build his grand $300 million ballroom, she reportedly isn't thrilled with the plan, either. 

Sources told the Wall Street Journal that she privately shared concerns with her associates over the renovation, which got rid of the space traditionally used for the first lady's offices.

Melania distanced herself from the build, telling her confidants that the demolition was not her project. Public opposition to the demolition has been stiff, although it has already been demolished.

The ballroom plan will eliminate the need for tents on the White House lawn to serve large state dinners.

Not taxpayer-funded

It will add 90,000 feet to the White House compound and accommodate 1,000 standing guests or 650 seated ones.

The cost of the ballroom addition will be borne by private donors including President Donald Trump himself.

The president denied reports that he planned to name it after himself.

'I don't have any plan to call it after myself. That was fake news. Probably going to call it the presidential ballroom or something like that,' Trump said over the weekend.

Fifteen years in the making

Trump has wanted to make a permanent entertaining space on the property for 15 years--before he was even running for president.

He first pitched the idea to Obama Chief of Staff David Axelrod in 2010.

"He said, 'You have these state dinners in sh***y little tents,' Axelrod told the WSJ."

"He said, 'I build ballrooms. I build the most beautiful ballrooms in the world. You can come to Florida and see for yourself."'

But the recession at the time held Axelrod back from endorsing the plan, and it was shelved.

Trump wanted to build the ballroom during his first term, but other projects like adding a tennis court to the sports complex constructed by Obama took precedence.