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Google for the WIN! Who do I talk to at Google when I tourist my ass down to DC, and expect to visit the East Wing? Will Google reimburse me for my train ticket? #google #trump #eastwing #corruption #trumpballroom
#idiot47 #whitehouse #eastwing The scared entrance to the Whitehouse where the East Wing used to connect is hard to watch. I think that is a good thing for us in the United States. It reminds me of the carcass of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church in Berlin, a reminder to all future generations of the atrocities committed by the NAZI regime. Whatever idiot47 does with that space, I think we should tear it down and leave that gaping scar as a permanent reminder of what we did as a nation putting that monster in power. It’s a small thing, compared to the atrocities he has committed, but it might serve as a point of shame never to let anything like this occur again.
That's not a ballroom, that's a palace with a throne room.
Trump teases major National Mall makeover to address 'Biden filth and incompetence'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/filth-trump-planning-for-a-national-mall-makeover/
Trump’s desire to “go big” with the project has put him at odds with architect James McCrery II, the people said, who has counseled restraint over concerns the planned 90,000-square-foot! addition could dwarf the 55,000-square-foot mansion in violation of a general architectural rule: don’t build an addition that overshadows the main building [especially that main building ffs].
#Trump #ballroom #greed #gluttony #WhiteHouse #HistoricLandmark #UShistory #architecture #EastWing
#Trump wants a bigger White House #ballroom. His architect disagrees.
Trump has personally argued with James McCrery, the architect he handpicked to design a #WhiteHouse ballroom, over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms & Trump’s “grandiose” [#tacky AF] aesthetic, acc/to 4 people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.
#HistoricLandmark #UShistory #architecture #EastWing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/26/trump-ballroom-architect-james-mccrery/
Michelle Obama on East Wing demolition: ‘I felt a loss for us as a nation’ – The Washington Post
The former first lady said her feelings stemmed from the country and its shared traditions, rather than a personal attachment to the building Trump knocked down to build a ballroom.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 p.m. EST, Today at 1:47 p.m. EST, 2 min
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks about her book “The Look” during an event in Washington earlier this month. (Allison Robbert / AP)Michelle Obama on East Wing demolition: ‘I felt a loss for us as a nation’
Former first lady Michelle Obama said she felt “a loss for us as a nation” when asked about President Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing for a massive new ballroom.
Obama, who was first lady during President Barack Obama’s two terms from 2009 to 2017, shared her response to the removal of the century-old annex in an episode of Jamie Kern Lima’s podcast Tuesday, saying her feelings stemmed from the country and its shared traditions, rather than a personal attachment to the space.
“I think in my body, I felt confusion because I’m like, who are we? What do we value? And who decides that?” Obama said. “That’s the thing that’s going through my head a lot lately. Who are we? What are the rules? Because I’m confused by what are our norms and our mores — not the laws — but how do we live together? That’s the part of it that hurts.”
“I think I felt a loss for us as a nation, but personally, you know … that’s not our house. That’s the people’s house,” she added.
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Between October 20 and 23, crews tore down sections of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a $300 million ballroom planned by President Trump. (Video: The Washington Post)The East Wing has typically housed the first lady’s office and staff, and served as a hub for her public initiatives.
In October, Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom building he estimates will cost $300 million.
The project is one of several transformations the Trump administration has pursued within the White House complex. Since returning to office, he has paved the Rose Garden, erected a pair of 88-foot-tall flagpoles on the North and South lawns, covered the Lincoln Bathroom in marble and mused about potentially painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building — saying the 137-year-old federal property “was always considered an ugly building.”
In podcast interviews and appearances this year, Obama has grown more vocal about her concerns over Trump’s second term, explaining her decision to skip Trump’s second inauguration in January, and warning that his immigration policies and approach to governing threaten the nation’s values and identity.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Michelle Obama on East Wing demolition: ‘I felt a loss for us as a nation’ – The Washington Post
#ballroom #barackObama #destructionEastWing #eastWing #formerFirstLady #michelleObama #notTrumpsHouse #trumpsBallroom #whiteHouse
The People's House
And the Oligarch Pit
Timothy #Snyder Nov 22, 2025
The destruction of the East Wing is the vanity project of someone who regards the White House as a permanent private residence.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-peoples-house
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America
#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing
#TrumpAdministration #oligarchs #corruption
Stop the #fascist #demolition of our #architectural #heritage, from the #EastWing of the #WhiteHouse to #artDeco
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wilbur-j-cohen-building-new-deal-art-sale-2711551
Opinion: Demolishing the East Wing is yet another broken norm in the Trump administration – The Occidental
Opinion: Demolishing the East Wing is yet another broken norm in the Trump administration
By Whittaker Perrin, November 12, 2025
Sophie Had / The OccidentalThe East Wing of the White House was a historic building. Constructed in 1902 during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, it stood for 123 years until it was demolished last month under the Trump administration. It is now being replaced with a massive, gaudy ballroom.
Spending $300 million on a ballroom is an idiotic response to solve a “lack of event space” problem that was never really there in the first place. This is money that the administration could spend on various initiatives that directly benefit the American people as a whole. From a political point of view, the intelligence of the movedoes not improve. In a Yahoo/YouGov poll of U.S.adults conducted in October 2025, only 25 percent of respondents approved of the project, while 61 percent disapproved. It’s easy to see these numbers as encouraging news, especially coupled with widespread election losses for Republicans this past week and the ongoing government shutdown. However, they hint at an unsettling reality of this administration: that it is willing to act on its policies in favor of selfish grandeur while disregarding norms and popular opinion. While it may seem harmless in this case, this mindset has drastic effects on the everyday lives of people living in the U.S.
Perhaps the issue where this is most apparent is immigration, where the Trump administration has repeatedly deported U.S.citizens. This is blatantly illegal, but by acting quickly before the judicial system can protect these people, or by outright ignoring the rulings of the judicial branch, the Trump administration has deported these people anyway.
The right to due process comes from the Constitution, and it should protect not just U.S. citizens but also illegal immigrants from being deported without at least having the opportunity to go through the judicial system. Ignoring a constitutional right is not only concerning for the implications it has now, something we’ve experienced firsthand here in LA,but also for what it could mean in the future.
Trump has repeatedly claimedthat he would be active in going after his enemies in this administration, going as far as to say,“I am your retribution” while campaigning in 2023. Last month, he went ahead with designating Antifa as a terrorist organization —a designation that has not fallen on groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
The only thing stopping the Trump administration from outright deporting its political enemies is public approval, rather than morality. Of course, I imagine any moral voice in the leaders of the administration is long dead, as evidenced by cases such as the detaining and then deporting of a 10-year-old American citizen with Stage 4 cancer and her family, without medical care, as they rushed to the hospital. I grew concerned while fact-checking the statement, as I found a similar story with conflicting facts. It turns out that entirely separately, a 4-year-old with Stage 4 kidney cancer, also a U.S. citizen, was deported without medical care.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion: Demolishing the East Wing is yet another broken norm in the Trump administration – The Occidental
#300Million #ballroomForTrump #demolishing #eastWing #eastWingDestroyed #gaudyBallroom #theOccidental #whiteHouse
#uspol #eastwing #whitehouse #ballroom #trump. Just the facts, ma'am, and the donors, and what their bribes got them. From the AP.
#BoostingIsSharing https://apnews.com/article/donors-to-trump-white-house-ballroom-d4dd174eeb30ac244354a5a25551a86b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=AssociatedPress/magazine/Politics
—> #TheTonightShow ⦁ #JimmyFallon <—
#Trump Stirs Controversy with #50Year #Mortgage
Says #EastWing "Looked Like Hell" Before #Demo
#Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
youtu.be/achaFo5fPCY
Trump Stirs Controversy with 5...
—> #TheTonightShow ⦁ #JimmyFallon <—
#Trump Stirs Controversy with #50Year #Mortgage
Says #EastWing "Looked Like Hell" Before #Demo
#Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/achaFo5fPCY
Trump admitted on Monday that he could have built his new #WhiteHouse ballroom without destroying the #EastWing, but it “was a poor, sad sight” that “looked like hell.” He boasted, “We’re gonna have the best ballroom anywhere in the world, and I built a lot of them."
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Trump Admits He Could’ve Built...
Donald Trump's OUTRAGEOUS ballroom lies FINALLY unravel as Trump admits HE ordered the destruction of the #EastWing for the WORST reasons POSSIBLE, as economic outrage GROWS. @johniadarola.bsky.social and #JacksonWhite break it down on @thedamagereport.bsky.social
youtu.be/_QmFZah4h94?...
Trump's Ballroom Lies FALL APA...
Fox News maven and attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro holds what's said to be a bible during a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, in the Oval Office of the White House.
The photo is by Brendan Smialowski.
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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"But a very abnormal Trump has done all three of those things in the last month, and the stories have lasted only a day or two in major news coverage.
Trump has been dropping feces on us for a decade… and now we’re used to it."
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
/3
"Or if he were normal for a decade and then pardoned someone who gave his family a huge cryptocurrency payday that looked very much like a bribe – then denied he even knew who the pardon recipient was.
If a president had done any of those things in a normal time, the news media would have gone big with the story.:
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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"Imagine if Donald Trump had been a normal politician for a decade and then suddenly demolished the East Wing of the White House.
Or if he were normal for a decade and then posted a video showing a cartoon version of himself using a plane to drop feces on a crowd of Americans."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #media #normalization #saneashing #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #feces #cruelty #destruction
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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-coverage-eases-us-into-tyranny
The likely reason is that #Trump has comported himself unlike any other president, flaunting his impunity in ways both important (refusing to fund programs authorized by #Congress) & visible (a unilateral demolition of the #EastWing). He hosted a decadent “Great Gatsby” Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago hours before millions of Americans lost #FoodStamps.
#BadPolitics #Congress #Democrats #ACA #Medicaid #healthcare #HealthInsurance
