It would seem that a American President, that is an ole’ Real Estate guy, wants to add a ‘Trump’ Ballroom on the American ‘White House’
As President ( and KING).,,,,
He just has gone ahead and had the construction guys start the job!
No permit’s!
No Congressional Ok?
No DC input….
Just ‘Do IT’!
And the compliuant that the ‘Trump Ballroom’ wouyld be BIGGER that the ole’ White House will just make Donbald smile , I’d bet….
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, according to a photograph obtained by The Washington Post and two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the scene.
Photos of construction teams knocking down parts of the East Wing, first revealed by The Washington Post on Monday, shocked preservationists, raised questions about White House overreach and lack of transparency, and sparked complaints from Democrats that President Donald Trump was damaging “the People’s House” to pursue a personal priority.
“They’re wrecking it,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist and professor emeritus at Towson University in Maryland. “And these are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.”
A White House spokesman said that the “entirety” of the East Wing would eventually be “modernized and rebuilt.”
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….
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The modern East Wing emerged in 1942 when a renovation added a second story to the annex, which houses office space for the first lady, her staff, the White House Military Office and the social secretary. The East Wing is one of the most well-known parts of the White House, having also been used for decades as the entrance for almost all visitors touring the White House, a fact the administration underscored last month by indefinitely canceling all public tours of the White House because of the ballroom construction….
image…Demolition of the East Wing of the White House takes place Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom. (Obtained by The Washington Post)
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