Yes...We, the People, DO Need a Ballroom !

What's really happening is everything has to be changed around for the secret stuff because Obama showed it all to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bet!
He probably gave them keys.
Well, it's all gonna be different now. 😆
 
Grokmaster said:
And notice the East Wing, as a completely separate building, connected by a walkway, that existed before there ever was an "East Wing". +The "colonnade: is nothing more than a covered walkway
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Here is the East Colonnade. As is clearly visible it is a fully enclosed hallway, not a walkway. There are even offices in half of it.
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The main White House and the East Wing are connected, but the distance from the main building's entrance to the East Wing's visitor entrance is approximately 60 yards, as the East Colonnade is the connecting structure between them. The East Wing is an extension of the main building, with the East Colonnade forming the direct link.

  • The East Wing is physically attached to the main residence of the White House, with the East Colonnade as the connecting passageway.
  • While the wings are connected, the entrance to the East Wing is considered a separate visitor entrance that is reached after walking through the East Colonnade.
  • The distance is approximately 60 yards from the main building's entrance to the East Wing's visitor entrance.
 
Walt said:
Here is the East Colonnade. As is clearly visible it is a fully enclosed hallway, not a walkway. There are even offices in half of it.
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The main White House and the East Wing are connected, but the distance from the main building's entrance to the East Wing's visitor entrance is approximately 60 yards, as the East Colonnade is the connecting structure between them. The East Wing is an extension of the main building, with the East Colonnade forming the direct link.

  • The East Wing is physically attached to the main residence of the White House, with the East Colonnade as the connecting passageway.
  • While the wings are connected, the entrance to the East Wing is considered a separate visitor entrance that is reached after walking through the East Colonnade.
  • The distance is approximately 60 yards from the main building's entrance to the East Wing's visitor entrance.
Fucking morons.
 

What’s Been Lost In Donald Trump’s Teardown Of The East Wing To Build A White House Ballroom​


What’s striking is the lack of any public input, congressional or commission review, while groups like the National Trust for Historic Preservation are sounding the alarm about what is planned for the space.

The $300-million ballroom is proposed to be 90,000 square feet, dwarfing the 55,000-square-foot executive mansion, and threatening to “permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings,” warns the National Trust.

It may have been a small space, but it was large in historic importance in the eyes of historians, preservationists and many who worked there or simply visited to roam its halls.

David Hume Kennerly, White House photographer for President Gerald Ford, wrote on X on Thursday, “First Lady Betty Ford said, ‘If the West Wing is the mind of the nation the East Wing is the heart.’ Mindless West has just torn out the nation’s heart.”

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What’s Been Lost In Donald Trump’s Teardown Of The East Wing To Build A White House Ballroom – Analysis

The East Wing didn't get the spotlight like its counterpart, but it still held influence and history.
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Guno צְבִי said:

What’s Been Lost In Donald Trump’s Teardown Of The East Wing To Build A White House Ballroom​


What’s striking is the lack of any public input, congressional or commission review, while groups like the National Trust for Historic Preservation are sounding the alarm about what is planned for the space.

The $300-million ballroom is proposed to be 90,000 square feet, dwarfing the 55,000-square-foot executive mansion, and threatening to “permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings,” warns the National Trust.

It may have been a small space, but it was large in historic importance in the eyes of historians, preservationists and many who worked there or simply visited to roam its halls.

David Hume Kennerly, White House photographer for President Gerald Ford, wrote on X on Thursday, “First Lady Betty Ford said, ‘If the West Wing is the mind of the nation the East Wing is the heart.’ Mindless West has just torn out the nation’s heart.”

deadline.com

What’s Been Lost In Donald Trump’s Teardown Of The East Wing To Build A White House Ballroom – Analysis

The East Wing didn't get the spotlight like its counterpart, but it still held influence and history.
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The actual ballroom will be 25,000 sq. ft.; there will also be levels added to accommodate offices, etc. And?

Who did Obama ask before putting in a basketball court over the tennis court? Who did Truman ask before tearing out the entire interior of the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE? Etc...etc...
 
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Artwork by military children decorates a display in the East Colonnade of the East Wing at the White House, Sept. 26, 2023, in Washington. Then-first lady Jill Biden had announced the Military Children’s Corner at the White House, an installation that will feature art dedicated to America’s military children. (Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press file)
 
FACT: For more than a century, U.S. Presidents have been renovating, expanding, and modernizing the White House to meet the needs of the present day.

  • In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing — replacing expansive greenhouses constructed during the Jefferson Administration and establishing the modern day executive office wing with a “classically leaning design” — along with a colonial garden and East Terrace, which eventually became the East Wing.
  • In 1909, President William Howard Taft remodeled and expanded the West Wing, which included construction of the first Oval Office.
  • In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson demolished the colonial garden, modernizing it with a rose garden.
  • In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge oversaw the renovation of the upper floors and attic of the White House.
  • In 1929, President Herbert Hoover remodeled the West Wing, including reconstruction work in the basement level and remodeling the first floor; after a fire on Christmas Eve, the West Wing was repaired and reopened in 1930.
  • In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt overhauled the West Wing, adding a second floor, a larger basement, and a swimming pool, and relocating the Oval Office to its current location; in 1942, President Roosevelt constructed the East Wing.
  • In 1948, President Harry Truman undertook a “total reconstruction” of the White House’s interior, expanding its foundation and footprint — preserving only its exterior walls.
  • In 1962, President John F. Kennedy constructed the modern Rose Garden.
  • In 1970, President Nixon converted the swimming pool into the press briefing room; in 1973, he added a bowling alley in the basement.
  • In 1975, President Gerald Ford installed an outdoor swimming pool on the South Grounds, financed entirely by private donations.
  • In 1993, President Bill Clinton undertook a restoration and refurbishment of the Executive Mansion.
  • In 2009, President Barack Obama resurfaced the south-grounds tennis court into a basketball court and added the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn.
  • In 2020, President Trump and the First Lady completed a new White House tennis pavilion, refurbishing the White House Tennis Court and Grandchildren’s Garden, as well as constructing a new building.
Now, in 2025, President Trump is carrying forward that legacy, breaking ground on a grand ballroom — a transformative addition that will significantly increase the White House’s capacity to host major functions honoring world leaders, foreign nations, and other dignitaries.
 
Diogenes said:
I do find it odd that people who seemed to be cool with vandalizing monuments/statues and historic buildings in DC want me to believe they suddenly care about historic American structures in the nation’s capital.

During demonstrations against Donald Trump's inauguration in 2016, rioters caused widespread property damage across downtown D.C., including to government buildings. Windows were smashed at federal agencies like the U.S. Court of Appeals.

During the riots after George Floyd’s overdose death, rioters threw rocks, bricks, bottles, fireworks, urine, and alcohol at the White House, injuring over 60 officers (11 hospitalized). Attempts to destroy the perimeter fencing around Lafayette Square and the White House grounds were made.

Rioters also defaced the Lincoln Memorial's steps and base with black spray paint reading "Y'all not tired yet?" and other phrases.

The World War II Memorial fountain and pillars were graffitied with "Do black vets count?".

The Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski Statue in Freedom Plaza was spray-painted, and the Thaddeus Kosciuszko Statue near the White House was defaced with obscene phrases and doused in urine.

The Mahatma Gandhi Statue outside the Indian Embassy was graffitied and damaged, prompting a U.S. diplomatic apology.

"No More Black Bodies" was painted near the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Headquarters at 810 Vermont Ave NW, a historic early-20th-century federal building, had windows shattered and its exterior graffitied.

Arsonists set a fire in the basement nursery of St. John's Episcopal Church (the "Church of the Presidents"), a National Register of Historic Places site across from the White House in Lafayette Square. Exterior graffiti like "BHAZ" (Black House Autonomous Zone) was also added.

On Juneteenth, vandals toppled the Albert Pike Memorial statue in Judiciary Square using ropes and chains, then set it ablaze. It was destroyed.

Demonstrators in Lafayette Square attempted to topple the Andrew Jackson statue with ropes, damaging its base and surrounding fencing.

But tell me more about your poutrage regarding the East Wing.
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Lol... Nicely done...
 
Weird that your founders didn't think to build one. Almost like they were against kings and the rich having parties and dancing on the tax payer's dime.
 
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