“In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes,” the Washington Post reports.”James McCrery withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures.””Trump brushed off McCrery’s concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.”Said Trump: “I am the code.”