US EditionNew Photos Show White House East Wing Demolition for Trump’s Ballroom
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The East Wing’s demolition is a lasting scar of Trump’s America
Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.
In addition to the ballroom built on the site of the demolished East Wing of the White House, a famous bathroom and a rose garden bear the mark of Trump's hand, along with the excessive gilding that floods everything. The new American age style is increasingly invading other parts of Washington. Its critics accuse it of a taste typical of monarchical and authoritarian regimes, but some say that the real estate developer just got out of it.
Trump's White House renovations fulfill Obama's prediction, kind of
President Barack Obama famously chided Donald Trump in April 2011 during the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. The reality show star had repeatedly and falsely claimed that Obama had not been born in the United States and was therefore ineligible to be president.Trump’s demands that Obama release his birth certificate had, in part, made Trump a front-runner among Republican hopefuls for their party’s nomination in the following year’s p…
Demolition of the East Wing, paving of the Jackie Kennedy Rose Garden, gilding of the Oval Room and the Lincoln Bath, construction of a ballroom larger than the White House itself, part j
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