Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Trump Plotted Secret White House Teardown: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head - The Daily Beast

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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to reveal Trump's hasty plan to demolish the East Wing and build a massive Trump Ballroom, his push to bypass political limits, and his obsession with control.

They break down Steve Bannon's wild Trump third-term schemes and Melania's conspicuous absence on the president's Japan trip.

Wolff explains how Trump's real estate instincts shape his decisions in Washington and why Trump's once seemingly impossible authoritarian dreams suddenly feel possible in an America where business and political leaders are genuflecting to Trump.

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I did hear something, and I recount someone who was, privy to the room in which, you know, this idea, he's going to do this ballroom. So when they came to him, the building, the contracting team
on the engineering team, they they came, they had a meeting and they said, you know, listen, it really would be much cheaper and faster just to tear down the East Wing.

And he said ... this was given to me as a as a quote. He said, '----, but can we do the demolition at night?".

Wow. So you know, the idea would be Washington would wake up in the East wing would have evaporated."

It's a podcast video, but there's a Transcript if you want to scan it.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-29 12:50 PM

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