{"id":2501855,"date":"2025-10-22T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-media-clutch-pearls-over-trumps-ballroom-build\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:20:35","slug":"democrats-media-clutch-pearls-over-trumps-ballroom-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-media-clutch-pearls-over-trumps-ballroom-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Media Clutch Pearls Over Trump\u2019s Ballroom Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-media-clutch-pearls-over-trumps-ballroom-build%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article discusses the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump&#8217;s construction of a new, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-wing-demolition-continues-history-of-white-house-renovations\/\" title=\"... demolition continues history of ... renovations\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-to-enroll-600-families-of-color-in-guranteed-income-pilot-program\/\" title=\"Oakland to Enroll 600 Families of Color in \u2018Guranteed Income\u2019 Pilot Program\">privately funded<\/a> ballroom<\/a> at the White House. Announced earlier in 2025, the ballroom will be significantly larger than the existing East Room. While previous presidents have made various additions to the White House over the past century, trump&#8217;s project sparked widespread backlash once construction began, with critics claiming it damages the historic East Wing and represents vanity and excess.Prominent Democrats,media outlets,and preservation groups condemned the renovation,some comparing it to historical destruction and calling for a halt. Defense of the project notes that such modifications are customary presidential prerogatives and emphasize that no taxpayer money is being used. Critics&#8217; outrage is seen by some commentators as politically motivated opposition to Trump rather than genuine concerns about preservation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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&rsquo;s above-board ballroom build is a historical injustice.<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/2025\/07\/the-white-house-announces-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced its private donor-funded plans<\/a> to build a &ldquo;much-needed and exquisite&rdquo; ballroom capable of holding 650 people &mdash; 450 more than the East Room capacity &mdash; earlier this year. It wasn&rsquo;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. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>For over 100 years, presidents have enhanced the White House, preserving its legacy as a symbol of our nation. Today, President Trump proudly broke ground on the new, big White House Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Privately funded, it costs taxpayers nothing &amp; will be cherished for generations. &#127482;&#127480; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p1rZdYmrOy\">pic.twitter.com\/p1rZdYmrOy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1980450740985557074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As the White House has repeatedly clarified, Trump&rsquo;s ballroom plans are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/10\/white-house-ballroom-proud-presidential-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;proud presidential legacy&rdquo;<\/a> that follows a pattern of additions, modifications, and renovations completed by his predecessors over the last century.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Taft made the Executive Office oval.<\/p>\n<p>FDR added the entire East Wing and included an indoor pool for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Truman gutted the entire White House.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon added a bowling alley.<\/p>\n<p>Obama added a basketball court.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is building a ballroom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OoQQjZVwQ1\">pic.twitter.com\/OoQQjZVwQ1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1980387195161833894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1980811529395270122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;literally destroying the White House&rdquo;<\/a> and replacing it with a &ldquo;gaudy monument to vanity, corruption, and excess.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This image of the East Wing of the White House is a metaphor for broader, reckless destruction.  <br \/>The ballroom that will go up there will be a gaudy monument to vanity, corruption and excess.<br \/>For anyone who has worked at the WH, or cares about its rich history, it&#8217;s a gut punch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A7Kaa3fNOR\">pic.twitter.com\/A7Kaa3fNOR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1980777031421034551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Much of the White House&rsquo;s East Wing was torn down to make way for President Trump&rsquo;s planned ballroom,&rdquo; the Washington Post quipped, followed by a quote claiming the administration is &ldquo;wrecking&rdquo; and &ldquo;destroying that history forever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Much of the White House&#8217;s East Wing was torn down to make way for President Trump&rsquo;s planned ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re wrecking it,&rdquo; said political scientist Martha Joynt Kumar. &ldquo;And these are changes that can&rsquo;t be undone. They&rsquo;re destroying that history forever.&rdquo;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8WDPNswjUB\">pic.twitter.com\/8WDPNswjUB<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1980823962012590457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The New York Times leaned on the musings of &ldquo;prominent architecture groups&rdquo; to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/rIZFH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">express disdain<\/a> for the renovation. CNN similarly amplified calls for a project &ldquo;pause&rdquo; from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/21\/politics\/trump-ballroom-east-wing-demolition-preservation-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-first-veterans-discovery-of-remains-of-14-revolutionary-war-soldiers-announced-on-veterans-day\/\" title=\"\u2018America\u2019s First Veterans\u2019: Discovery Of Remains Of 14 Revolutionary War Soldiers Announced On Veterans Day\">historic preservation group<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill fanned the flames of what the White House labeled &ldquo;manufactured outrage&rdquo; with a headline claiming Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5566036-white-house-ballroom-critics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;strikes a nerve with East Wing ballroom demolition.&rdquo;<\/a> MSNBC published a similar roundup of rants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all-in\/watch\/fury-grows-over-trump-s-white-house-demolition-for-250-million-ballroom-250339909661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">titled<\/a> &ldquo;Fury grows over Trump&rsquo;s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom.&rdquo; Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/washington-dc\/2025\/10\/21\/trump-white-house-east-wing-renovation-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made sure to note<\/a> that Washington is &ldquo;furious over Trump&rsquo;s East Wing demo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/seth-meyers-trump-ballroom-construction-proof-he-wont-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late-night shows<\/a> nor social media were spared speculation that the ballroom is proof that Trump won&rsquo;t leave the White House after the conclusion of his second term.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) on President Donald Trump&#8217;s chances of unconstitutionally running for a third term:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think he&#8217;s kidding when he talks about wanting to run again? You think he built a ballroom so that, you know, J.B. Pritzker, when he moves in, can have that&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/peQ3SjyruG\">pic.twitter.com\/peQ3SjyruG<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartlandSignal\/status\/1975909277182074893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump is well within his right as the head of the executive to undertake additions like this one. Yet, that didn&rsquo;t stop the congressional Democrats &mdash; the same ones responsible for dragging out the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >current government shutdown &#038;mdash<\/a>; from using their free time to weigh in on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., likened the carefully calculated White House modification to the War of 1812 when &ldquo;British Troops set the White House ablaze, destroying the historical building.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now, Trump, who fashions himself a king, is doing the dirty work himself, tearing apart the people&rsquo;s house to build a gaudy Marie Antionette ballroom for the billionaires and CEOs to party while Americans are crushed by inflation and tariffs,&rdquo; Raskin wrote.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During the War of 1812, 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&rsquo;s house to build a gaudy Marie Antionette ballroom for the billionaires and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hJWvBr6Ojt\">pic.twitter.com\/hJWvBr6Ojt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin\/status\/1980757648577286204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., even went so far as to suggest that the construction was somehow criminal.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took the cake when she accused Trump of &ldquo;destroying&rdquo; the People&rsquo;s House.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2001\/01\/21\/clintons-take-away-190000-in-gifts\/36773cf2-8120-4d58-b903-d76d39a6cc3f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$190,000<\/a> worth of White House furnishings, including silverware, artwork, rugs, sofas, and china that the couple was later forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/from-whence-it-came\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay for or return<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Mark Hemingway noted in the wake of the leftist-led meltdown, &ldquo;angst&rdquo; about the ballroom looks less like genuine concern for historical significance and more like &ldquo;rejecting Trump in every particular.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;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,&rdquo; Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Heminator\/status\/1980680388063412407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As I was saying, the angst here isn&#8217;t about whether a WH ballroom is actually a good or bad idea. There&#8217;s nothing inherently authoritarian about a ballroom, and a future Democrat president could put it to good use. But rejecting Trump in every particular is one reason why Trump&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9QqRUSkNh1\">https:\/\/t.co\/9QqRUSkNh1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PlV81XuTsd\">pic.twitter.com\/PlV81XuTsd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1980723581177729030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      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. 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