President Donald Trump announced months ago that he had organized a program to design and build a huge ballroom on the campus of the White House in Washington.
The federal facilities there never have had a place to deliver state banquets for more than a few dozen, and the new program, in replacement of the 1940s-era East Wing, will seat hundreds.
Further, Trump has organized private donors to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars, saving taxpayers a lot.
But leftists are unhappy, with Hillary Clinton complaining he’s tearing down the White House and it’s not his.
Other comments included the astute claim, “Obama would have been immediately impeached for this.”
Many Democrat comments descended immediately to the graphic and are not reproducible in a civilized publication.
But now the truth is being delivered.
For example, Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley said this project, unlike the Nixon bowling alley, Obama basketball court and the like, will benefit future presidents and even the public.
“A lot of Americans will be able to enjoy that ballroom. A lot of Americans could not enjoy Obama’s basketball court, or Clinton’s running track and putting green, or Gerald Ford’s swimming pool. You know, a lot of Americans couldn’t enjoy those things, but a lot of Americans will be able to enjoy the ballroom,” Shirley told Washington Secrets.
A report at Fox said the Trump administration had launched a trolling campaign against critics.
The White House website, for instance, was detailing “major events timeline” at the site that dates to 1791, when it first was launched.
“The timeline includes a series of benchmarks such as the addition of the north portico from 1829 to 1830, and the addition of the Oval Office in 1909 under the Taft administration and the ‘total reconstruction’ of the White House interior under the Truman administration,” the report said.
It also includes “Cocaine Discovered” in 2023 during the Joe Biden administration.
There also was Obama’s $376 million project on the White House grounds, to which leftists did not raise objections.
BREAKING – A 2010 CNN clip of Obama’s $376 million White House renovation, fully funded by taxpayers unlike President Trump’s $250 million ballroom he’s paying for himself, is going viral as viewers call out Democrat hypocrisy and fake outrage.pic.twitter.com/EDkMISv5ic
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) October 23, 2025
The timeline also included Bill Clinton’s 1998 sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky, as well as Obama’s invitation to the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House.
It was Joe Biden who used the facility for “International Transgender Day of Visibility.”
The twice-failed Democrat candidate for the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton, said, “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”
Karoline Leavitt, White House spokeswoman, added more details to the history: “Nearly every single president who’s lived in this beautiful White House behind me has made modernizations and renovations of their own.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., pointed out that leftists had no issue with destroying history during Joe Biden’s tenure, when they trashed statues of famous Americans.
Senator Josh Hawley dismantles CNN’s narrative about President Trump’s White House renovation during a live interview.
When reporter Manu Raju asked: “What about just uprooting the—you know—this is an iconic building?”@HawleyMO exposed their faux outrage instantly:
“Manu, I… pic.twitter.com/FR9oKdUV2w
— Overton (@overton_news) October 22, 2025
Shirley added, “The White House has been a work in progress since 1800. Trump is a builder. I’m running out of fingers and toes to tell you how many times the White House has gone through changes.”
He charged that criticism can be chalked up to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chided Maria Shriver, whose uncle was former President John F. Kennedy. She said that the project “breaks my heart and it infuriates me.”
Cruz responded, “Does it ‘break your heart’ that, in 1948, Harry Truman undertook a ‘total reconstruction’ of the White House’s interior, preserving only its exterior walls? Or, in 1962, when your uncle JFK constructed the modern Rose Garden? Or is it just Trump that your lament applies to?”
Many presidents have left their philosophical or architectural imprimatur on the White House, from the Monroe Doctrine to the Truman Balcony. The Constitution isn’t a living document, but the White House has been a work in progress since 1800. Trump is a builder. So was Jefferson pic.twitter.com/Fk937Av86Y
— Craig Shirley (@CraigSmpa) October 22, 2025
Are @BritHume and I the only native Washingtonians aware of the (recent) history of White House reconstruction? The raging tweets about Trump’s ballroom are genuinely astonishing. (And by the way, the sacred East Wing is a 20th-century addition.) https://t.co/N7yLvLPJef
— PhilipTerzian (@PhilipTerzian) October 22, 2025
Does it “break your heart” that, in 1948, Harry Truman undertook a “total reconstruction” of the White House’s interior, preserving only its exterior walls?
Or, in 1962, when your uncle JFK constructed the modern Rose Garden?
Or is it just Trump that your lament applies to? https://t.co/3UixiXCQLg
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2025
