{"id":42136,"date":"2025-10-25T23:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=42136"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:53:38","slug":"trump-sends-bulldozers-in-to-level-a-useless-wing-of-the-white-house-and-rich-liberals-lose-their-minds-writes-tanya-gold-daily-mail-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=42136","title":{"rendered":"Trump sends bulldozers in to level a useless wing of the White House – and rich liberals lose their minds, writes TANYA GOLD | Daily Mail Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> has reduced the East Wing of the White House<\/a> to rubble to build a $300 million ballroom. Strictly Come Donald!<\/p>\n

Many of the President\u2019s detractors had never heard of the East Wing but now care about nothing else because he\u2019s levelled it. That is how the culture war works. Pick your side and\u00a0stop thinking.<\/p>\n

The East Wing is an extension to the White House. It\u2019s where they do calligraphy, hang Christmas<\/a> decorations, and watch TV in an ugly private cinema.<\/p>\n

Now people \u2013 that is, rich liberals \u2013 are losing their minds. They are staring at before and after satellite images of the East Wing as if it is a crime<\/a> scene.<\/p>\n

They are talking about it as if it is \u2013 or rather was, sorry \u2013 the Temple of Karnak. It\u2019s true, the East Wing was ancient for America. It was built in 1902.<\/p>\n

Besides, for a people who profess to love the White House, they spend a lot of time watching it blow up on screen. Have you seen White House Down? It\u2019s excellent.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying Donald Trump hasn\u2019t done terrible things \u2013 I was there the day his Chinooks terrorised the reed warblers of Regent\u2019s Park when he stayed at the Ambassador\u2019s residence there in 2018 \u2013 but this isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n

There was a reason to demolish the East Wing: it\u2019s not big enough for state dinners. The State Dining Room takes 140 and the East Room 200, and America needs more friends than that. So, they had them in tents in the garden and everyone was sad.<\/p>\n

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The bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House began earlier this week<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pictures emerged earlier this week of the East Wing being demolished, the location of the proposed ballroom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The lawn was sad \u2013 it was ruined. The presidential helicopter Marine One was sad \u2013 it couldn\u2019t land. And the dignitaries were sad because on the most gilded day of their lives they had to use portapotties.<\/p>\n

Even the kitchen staff were sad \u2013 it can\u2019t be easy serving a state dinner in a gazebo. But I doubt rich liberals care about the kitchen staff.<\/p>\n

The ballroom will be vulgar. Of course it will be. Have you seen Trump Tower? Have you seen Las Vegas? Have you seen America? Trump Tower looks like sex Lego. Las Vegas looks like the inside of a Bond villain\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

The ballroom will be vast and white and gold. The drawings look like, well, a tiny bit fell off \u2018Germania\u2019 \u2013 Hitler\u2019s ideal Berlin \u2013 and dropped into a bucket of paint.<\/p>\n

But I have studied the aesthetics of tyranny, and its architecture is the least awful thing about it. Emperor Augustus found Rome in brick and left it in marble, and all that: and rich Liberals should be the first ones to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Do you remember when President Obama teased Trump at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner in 2011?<\/p>\n

He presented a garish vision of a Trump White House resort, complete with a giant neon sign and the inscription: \u2018Hotel. Casino. Golf Course.\u2019 A joke became a prophecy.<\/p>\n

And this is why Trump does it. Because it drives his opponents insane and they can\u2019t think of anything else. Least of all beating him. Perhaps the more honest ones will look at the rubble and know \u2013 the rubble is me?<\/p>\n

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How the proposed ballroom, set to cost more than $300million in private donations, will look<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the UK we are so scared of, ahem, amending public buildings. Just look at the Palace of Westminster \u2013 it\u2019s a fire waiting to happen, riddled with asbestos, the stonework is exploding, no one knows what wiring has been stuffed into what crevice and the basement smells like hell.<\/p>\n

When my local MP asked me if I had any questions for him, I just said: \u2018Do you know where your fire exit is?\u2019 If anyone other than our elected representatives and their staff worked there, there would be an outcry. They have been promising to fix it for years.<\/p>\n

But democracy costs money \u2013 \u00a322 billion and rising in this case \u2013 and they kick it into the long grass. It\u2019s the British way. One day you will turn on News At Ten and it will be there, just on fire.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace, too, is surprisingly untouchable for an ordinary \u2013 very ordinary \u2013 eighteenth century aristocratic house with a repulsive 1913 frontage. While it has a nice garden, I give it that, the building\u2019s so horrible even the King doesn\u2019t want to live in it.<\/p>\n

Should a future Prime Minister Farage look at the Palace of Westminster or Buckingham Palace and simply say: \u2018It isn\u2019t working, I am going to replace it with a building shaped like a pint glass but concrete\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t judge him on that. Or not just on that.<\/p>\n

Buildings don\u2019t matter.\u00a0People do. You can love the past of bricks, badges and flags too much.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t always better, and people who loathe Trump being in the White House or the prospect of Farage in Number 10 should know that more than anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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