Trump’s Ballroom Architect Is Skilled at Shrugging Off Outrage

Shalom Baranes, who arrived in the U.S. as a Libyan refugee and went on to renovate the Pentagon, is baffling fellow architects for accepting the job. But he said some of his previous projects have drawn outrage too.Shalom Baranes, the architect overseeing President Trump’s White House ballroom, at his home in Washington.