President Trump affirmed he means to acknowledge the Republican nomination from the White House lawn, regardless of analysis about the location, The New York Post announced Thursday.

The president told the Post in an interview that he intends to make his socially-distanced acknowledgment speech at the White House before supporters.

“I’ll probably be giving my speech at the White House because it is a great place. It’s a place that makes me feel good, it makes the country feel good,” Trump told the Post.

“We’d do it possibly outside on one of the lawns, we have various lawns, so we could have it outside in terms of the China virus,” Trump added.

When asked whether he would host a horde of supporters, he stated, “We could have quite a group of people.”

The president told the media source that he will visit his subsequent option area for the discourse, Gettysburg, Pa., at a “later date.”

Trump initially proposed the idea of making the speech at the White House recently, saying that was “probably” where he would give it. However, the declaration started reaction from pundits and a few Republicans, who proposed it might disregard the Hatch Act, which restricts the political activities of government representatives while on the job.

The White House and the Trump campaign didn’t quickly react to demands for comment.

The location of Trump’s acknowledgment speech was undetermined after the president canceled the arranged convention in Jacksonville, Fla., because of the rising number of coronavirus cases in the state.

A week ago, in the wake of confronting analysis from legislators, including from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), over his proposition to talk at the White House, the president said he expected to either deliver the Republican National Convention speech at the White House or the war zone in Gettysburg.

Trump promoted in his interview with the Post that making the speech at the White House would give “tremendous saving[s] in cost.” He included he would prefer to give a speech in Gettysburg when it wasn’t summer.

“Gettysburg is special. I will be doing something at Gettysburg, it may be something different, not for the convention,” he said.

“We’re going to be doing something terrific at Gettysburg, but when it gets a little bit cooler because now it’s, you know, it’s August 27, so that’s pretty hot out there,” Trump added.

A few legislators addressed in the case of making the speech at the White House conflicted with the Hatch Act, which disallows government workers from taking part in partisan activities while on federal property.

The president and VP are excluded from this standard, yet others, similar to White House staff members, are definitely not.

The Republican National Convention is working at a constrained limit out of Charlotte, N.C., from Aug. 24 to 27. Trump is required to be available to acknowledge his renomination, yet will make his acknowledgment speech scheduled for Aug. 27 somewhere else.

Charlotte was the original location for the convention before Trump moved it to Jacksonville because of differences about coronavirus limitations.

The Democratic National Convention is set to begin one week from now, and previous Vice President Joe Biden plans to acknowledge the nomination from Delaware where he lives.