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A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom.bsky.app: @washingtonpost.com on BlueskyThis is infuriating! Where the hell are all the damn lawsuits to put a halt to this desecration? This is illegal until it's approved by Congress, isn't it?
Of course, the court order SHOULD have happened BEFORE the damn demolition began. Now it's too fucking late.
Again, I weep for America. And look forward to the next Democratic president tearing down the "Trump Ballroom" and rebuilding the East Wing as it once was.
From the WaPo article:
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, sent a letter Tuesday to administration officials, warning that the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom “will overwhelm the White House itself,” which is about 55,000 square feet.
“We respectfully urge the Administration and the National Park Service to pause demolition until plans for the proposed ballroom go through the legally required public review processes,” Carol Quillen, National Trust’s CEO, said in a statement, citing two federal commissions that have traditionally reviewed White House additions.
White House officials dismissed the criticism as “manufactured outrage,” arguing that past presidents had pursued their own changes to the executive campus as necessary. They said that the privately funded ballroom will be a “bold, necessary addition” to the presidential grounds.
“For more than a century, U.S. Presidents have been renovating, expanding, and modernizing the White House to meet the needs of the present day,” the White House’s rapid-response team posted on social media, listing examples of prior campus construction.
