"Right behind us we are building a ballroom, he said, gesturing towards a gold curtain. I didn't know I'd be standing here right now 'cos right on the other side you have a lot of construction going on, which you might hear periodically. Beyond the Oz-like curtain demolition crews were tearing down part of the White House's East Wing so they could start building Trump's ballroom, a $250m project he says will be paid for by himself and unnamed donors."
"Construction work takes place on Donald Trump's ballroom extension at the White House last week. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W Bush, tweeted: Something profoundly symbolic about Trump taking a wrecking ball to the White House paying for the demolition with money from cronies and insiders seeking government favors and the Republicans in Congress acquiescing as Trump treats public assets as private property."
The press corps gathered in the East Room for a student baseball celebration while demolition crews worked behind a gold curtain to remove part of the East Wing for a new ballroom. The project is described as a $250m ballroom that the president says will be paid for by himself and unnamed donors. A mechanical excavator ripped through the facade, leaving broken masonry, rubble and exposed steel wires. Historians and commentators compared the demolition to slashing a Rembrandt or defacing a Michelangelo and called the act symbolically consistent with accusations that the president is a 'human wrecking ball.' Former aides and commentators criticized funding sources and Republican acquiescence.
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