US EditionHillary Clinton Says Trump Is ‘Destroying’ White House
President Trump begins replacing the White House East Wing with a new ballroom, continuing a pattern of prioritizing construction over historic preservation, critics say.
- On Oct. 23, work continued demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House, Washington ahead of a new ballroom on the South Lawn.
- Decades-Long behavior traces to Donald Trump, President, who destroyed two Art Deco friezes at Bonwit Teller to avoid a two-week, $32,000 delay, which is $125,340 today.
- White House aides argue the East Wing is not historically significant, noting it existed for 123 years and past presidents made similar modifications.
- His team has already altered Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden, paving it over and adding a patio with furniture resembling a budget hotel, with supporters framing this as protecting a "very expensive, beautiful building."
- On Wednesday President Donald Trump showed artist renderings and said extensive study with top architects led to deciding to knock down much of the East Wing.
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Michael Reagan: Tearing down Trump’s ballroom
No wonder the dying legacy news media is increasingly distrusted and despised by the American people. They spent much of this week tearing their hair out over “King” Trump’s White House construction project. Trump’s idea to demolish the East Wing and build a grand $250 million ballroom got saturation coverage on all the networks. It was treated like a national sacrilege by the failing Trump-hate media that fewer and fewer Americans can stand to …
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Real Clear PoliticsWhy Trump Tore Down the East Wing
Adam Gopnik on what we have lost with a building where Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy once presided, and which came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government.
‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Calls White House “Just A Building” After Trump Demolishes East Wing
As Donald Trump stirs up more national outrage over his demolition of the White House‘s East Wing, one of his favorite dinner guests is brushing off the controversy. On Friday’s episode of Real Time, Bill Maher gave a flippant response when guest panelist Michael Steele mourned “the destruction of a symbol of this government” after the Trump administration had the historic structure torn down to make way for his ballroom. “You’re talking abo…
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