Anger as White House Begins Demolishing East Wing

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

President Donald Trump has begun the demolition of facade the East Wing of the White House to make way for his Mar-a-Lago-inspired ballroom, walking back his earlier assurance that the expansion would not touch the existing structure, the Washington Post reports.

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Trump tearing down the People's House to build a ballroom for his rich donors ... just about sums it all up, doesn't it?

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Mike Nellis
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$172 million so Noem can have two private jets.
$200 million to build Trump a ballroom.
$40 billion to bail out Argentina"for a MAGA billionaire.

But no bailout for soybean farmers crushed by tariffs.
No support for families drowning in grocery prices.
No help for anyone who can't find a job.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 04:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

People should take a look at the damage. It visually expresses who he is and the hurt he does to all of us.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 04:56 PM | Reply

This ballroom Trump is constructing----

Is an abomination.

It's going to be torn down after the man is dead.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 04:57 PM | Reply

He'll have to raid Ft Knox to guild the Ballroom like his office and his homes.

AC loves him some gold... and what it represents:

www.google.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-20 05:17 PM | Reply

Look I get all you Lumpers are upset about Trumps "expansion" of the White House, that is being 100% funded by donations.

But why do you have no interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsoms California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA's and cronyism?

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-20 05:28 PM | Reply

$172 million so Noem can have two private jets.
$200 million to build Trump a ballroom.
$40 billion to bail out Argentina"for a MAGA billionaire.
But no bailout for soybean farmers crushed by tariffs.
No support for families drowning in grocery prices.
No help for anyone who can't find a job.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 04:42 PM | Reply | Flag: Precise and Pithy

The "White House Windbag" doesn't give two cents about us and acts like he's never leaving power.

On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, 49.8% of eligible American voters elected a selfish pedophilic xenophobic sociopath who dodged the draft and never worked a day in his life to be "Leader of the Free World." The cultists in MAGA have not only hurt themselves irreparably, but us as well. And worst, these voters will keep electing Republican monsters because of racism.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-20 05:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5's picture is next to the Definition of Lazy Logical Fallacies like this laughable Whataboutism.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-20 05:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Why is Trump so interested in redesigning the White House when it's just temporary residence?

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-20 05:37 PM | Reply

OneTrumper never posts anything by bullshht.

It's all Trump supported can do to defend the actions of the Trump Party.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-20 05:38 PM | Reply

It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it " and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite. It's my favorite place. I love it.

Pedo 47 lies again.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 05:48 PM | Reply

images.newrepublic.com

It's finally infrastructure week.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 06:45 PM | Reply

Trump seems to be much better at tearing down walls than he is at getting Mexico to pay for building them.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-20 06:48 PM | Reply

If you conceptualize Trump as a rabid dog, then what that slavering cur is doing to the White House is pissing on it to make it his.

Being deadly serious here.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 06:55 PM | Reply

@#1

Quite the appropriate summary, imo.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 07:07 PM | Reply

...pissing on it to make it his.

Exactly. Wait until he paints the exterior gold.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-20 07:20 PM | Reply

And adds his name to the front of the building.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-20 07:44 PM | Reply

Looks like a fitting pic for rogers' stats page.

#17 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-10-20 09:41 PM | Reply

Looks like a fitting pic for rogers' stats page.

Or the State of the Union invites.

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-20 09:56 PM | Reply

Wow. The Capital Building is an office building, the White House is a house. Imagine not knowing the difference.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-20 10:26 PM | Reply

Pres Trump seems to be more concerned about the future "Trump Ballroom" than the future Trump legacy.

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 10:51 PM | Reply

more concerned about the future "Trump Ballroom" than the future Trump legacy.

In his mind, these are the same.

#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-20 10:54 PM | Reply

The Capital Building is an office building, the White House is a house.

It's "Capitol Building". The White House is just as much an "office building".

#22 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-20 11:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yes, but I was referring to the "Capital building" as in the one in California, in #5.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-20 11:12 PM | Reply

Ok.

#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-20 11:22 PM | Reply

Monroes - What Do All The People Know (1982)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse]
You know I told you once tonight
That you could always speak your mind
You work so hard to say what's right

I watch you do it all the time
And when I called you on the phone
You said that I could be the one
But here I'm standin' all alone
And you're out lyin' in the sun

[Chorus]
Tell me, am I getting in too deep?
Every night I'm talkin' in my sleep
Lately, I am so confused
I really don't know what to do
...

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 11:24 PM | Reply

Monroes - What Do All The People Know (1982)

Great song. My band covered that last century.

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-20 11:27 PM | Reply

@#26 ... Great song. ...

Agreed.

A shame it seemed to have been relegated to college radio, though.

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 11:50 PM | Reply

The "White House Windbag" doesn't give two cents about us and acts like he's never leaving power.

See for yourself: www.msn.com

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-21 02:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"(Trump) acts like he's never leaving power"

He's not, if he has anything to say about it.

If he can't manipulate and steal the mid-term elections, he'll do something worse to make sure that he does not have to deal with a loss, a loss that he is almost guaranteed to have and which will endanger his power, money, and freedom.

Trump is exactly what he appears to be: a criminal and sadistic megalomaniac. A megolomania that is entirely unsupported by any shred of competence.

MAGA has lost each and every argument concerning Trump. Their continued support for him is an expression of loyalty towards a mentally ill dictator.

#29 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-21 08:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That photo is the perfect visual metaphor for Trumps absolute disaster of a presidency.

#30 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-21 09:27 AM | Reply

Cinderella ballroom with no parking spaces. If you think it's all independent donations building that monstrocity, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. It'll be over a billion when it's finished.

#31 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-10-21 09:33 AM | Reply

Cinderella ballroom with no parking spaces.

#31 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Trump also plans to install a heliport.

And also, I think, a petting zoo.

#32 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-21 10:01 AM | Reply

But why do you have no interest in the $1.6 billion expansion of Gavin Newsoms California Capitol that is 100% taxpayer funded and 100% cloaked in NDA's and cronyism?

Because I don't live in California and Trump has no right to destroy property that is ours, not his.

But you being a foreigner with zero knowledge of our civics here in the US wouldn't know that so kindly STFU.

#33 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-21 10:53 AM | Reply

It'll be over a billion when it's finished.

#31 | Posted by lee_the_agent

The contracts and receipts will make for some *ahem* good reading, I'm sure...

#34 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-21 10:54 AM | Reply

What's funny is people think he's going to leave the WH in a few years after all the "improvements".

He'll only go when he can sell it for a profit.

#35 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-21 12:06 PM | Reply