US EditionJacqueline Kennedy Garden Removed for Trump’s White House Ballroom: What Was It Used For?
- This past week the East Wing of the White House was reduced to rubble, and satellite images obtained by ABC News show crews razed at least six historic trees and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden as construction for a new ballroom begins.
- President Donald Trump ordered the project, prioritizing self-honor over past presidents, while McCrery Architects, led by James McCrery, known for churches and Hillsdale College projects, designed the ballroom.
- Plans and renderings reveal inconsistent details, including impossible features and a 90,000 square-foot footprint with seating capacity figures of 650 or 1,350 and cost estimates from $200 million to $350 million.
- Lady Bird Johnson formally dedicated the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to Jacqueline Kennedy in 1965, with two southern magnolia trees planted in the 1940s memorializing Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Companies funding the project prioritize access and favor with President Donald Trump, while critics call it a 'gilded bribe' and compare its style to Mar-a-Lago, raising oversight concerns.
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The East Wing of the White House was reduced to a pile of rubble last week in a hasty, brutal demolition that shocked the country. Now, it’s time to build President Donald Trump’s big, dumb, gilded bribe palace—but no one knows exactly what that entails.The New York Times tried to figure this out, looking at the plans—which Trump waved around in the Oval Office—posted on the White House website and a physical model of the ballroom. And guess wha…
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden removed for Trump's White House ballroom
(NEXSTAR) – The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden appears to be the latest victim of President Trump’s plans for a White House ballroom where the East Wing once was. Satellite images published by Ars Technica (as well as aerial images from a commercial flight out of DC) appeared to show the Kennedy Garden completely torn up as of last week. In photos taken Sunday, construction equipment and debris were seen where the garden’s trees, bushes and I.M. Pei-…
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