Democrats, Media Clutch Pearls Over Trump’s Ballroom Build

The same people and publications who cheered tearing down statues in an attempt to usher in an age of race-obsessed revisionist history are waxing poetic about how President Donald Trump’s above-board ballroom build is a historical injustice.

The White House announced its private donor-funded plans to build a “much-needed and exquisite” ballroom capable of holding 650 people — 450 more than the East Room capacity — earlier this year. It wasn’t until the heavy equipment rolled in and began cutting at the connection point of the East Wing in mid-October, however, that a widespread meltdown ensued.

As the White House has repeatedly clarified, Trump’s ballroom plans are part of a “proud presidential legacy” that follows a pattern of additions, modifications, and renovations completed by his predecessors over the last century.

Yet, shortly after photos of the early and messy stages of construction began circulating, Democrats, corporate media, and others complained that construction on the new structure is “literally destroying the White House” and replacing it with a “gaudy monument to vanity, corruption, and excess.”

“Much of the White House’s East Wing was torn down to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom,” the Washington Post quipped, followed by a quote claiming the administration is “wrecking” and “destroying that history forever.”

The New York Times leaned on the musings of “prominent architecture groups” to express disdain for the renovation. CNN similarly amplified calls for a project “pause” from a “historic preservation group.”

The Hill fanned the flames of what the White House labeled “manufactured outrage” with a headline claiming Trump “strikes a nerve with East Wing ballroom demolition.” MSNBC published a similar roundup of rants titled “Fury grows over Trump’s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom.” Axios made sure to note that Washington is “furious over Trump’s East Wing demo.”

Neither late-night shows nor social media were spared speculation that the ballroom is proof that Trump won’t leave the White House after the conclusion of his second term.

Trump is well within his right as the head of the executive to undertake additions like this one. Yet, that didn’t stop the congressional Democrats — the same ones responsible for dragging out the current government shutdown — from using their free time to weigh in on the project.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., likened the carefully calculated White House modification to the War of 1812 when “British Troops set the White House ablaze, destroying the historical building.”

“Now, Trump, who fashions himself a king, is doing the dirty work himself, tearing apart the people’s house to build a gaudy Marie Antionette ballroom for the billionaires and CEOs to party while Americans are crushed by inflation and tariffs,” Raskin wrote.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., even went so far as to suggest that the construction was somehow criminal.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took the cake when she accused Trump of “destroying” the People’s House.

Clinton’s X post, which she closed commenting on, is ironic considering her husband not only desecrated the Oval Office with his adultery, but also made off with $190,000 worth of White House furnishings, including silverware, artwork, rugs, sofas, and china that the couple was later forced to pay for or return.

As The Federalist’s Mark Hemingway noted in the wake of the leftist-led meltdown, “angst” about the ballroom looks less like genuine concern for historical significance and more like “rejecting Trump in every particular.”

“It’s so much that anyone really objects to constructing a WH ballroom, it seems people are just agitated they will have to deal with a permanent reminder that Trump was ever president,” Hemingway continued.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.