‘Big surprise!’ Backlash grows over Trump’s major ballroom move

Social media lit up Friday after reports that Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a federal review panel set to take up his controversial White House ballroom project – a move critics slammed as an attempt by the president to two-step around the approval process.

The online backlash erupted after reports emerged that Trump appointed four allies to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency charged by Congress with advising the president on major design projects on Capitol Hill.