US EditionMost Americans oppose East Wing demolition for Trump ballroom, poll finds
A recent poll finds 56% of Americans oppose demolishing the East Wing for a $300 million private-funded ballroom, with opposition strongest among Democrats and independents.
- On Oct. 24-28, the ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found 56% of Americans oppose tearing down the East Wing of the White House for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom funded by $300 million in private donations.
- On Oct. 23, 2025, construction crews demolished much of the East Wing while an online poll conducted Oct. 24-28, 2025 via Ipsos KnowledgePanel captured public reaction.
- Intensity varies sharply among strong Trump approvers and strong Trump disapprovers, with 58% of the former strongly supporting and 82% of the latter strongly opposing the demolition.
- The poll completed 2,725 interviews, reporting a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points and a design effect of 1.08, with larger subgroup errors, ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos said.
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Vast Majority of Americans Hate Trump Demolishing White House East Wing For Lavish Ballroom: Poll
A new poll shows Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of President Donald Trump’s decision to tear down the White House’s East Wing to build a massive 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The joint survey by ABC News, Ipsos, and The Washington Post found just 28 percent of U.S. adults support the demolition project, while 56 percent oppose it and 16 percent are undecided. The numbers reveal sharp partisan divides. Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats and roughly 6 i…
Most Americans oppose Trump’s $300M ballroom project: Survey
Most Americans oppose President Trump’s $300 million ballroom project, according to a poll. In the Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, 56 percent of respondents said they are “somewhat” or “strongly” against the project. On the opposite side, 28 percent in the poll said they either “somewhat” or “strongly” back the project. Major companies including Amazon, Apple…
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hbl.fiA majority of Americans, 56 percent, oppose the sudden demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a new stateroom that President Donald Trump plans to build. “It will probably be the finest stateroom ever,” Trump says.
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