I get it. Donald Trump is Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Genghis Khan was a pussycat compared to Donald Trump. Mao was a piker, and Pol Pot was really a pretty good guy if you get past the pesky killing fields thing.
Yes, the US is on the cusp of a holocaust, and soon enough, the kulaks will be starved to death in America's heartland.
Gov. Pritzker claims that Trump’s legal enforcement of immigration law is how the Holocaust began. pic.twitter.com/1MYun8SI8W
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) October 22, 2025
So, with all the atrocities being committed or about to be, why are Democrats so hot and bothered by Trump's renovation of the White House? To hear them speak, tearing down a part of the East Wing—originally built in 1902 and then pretty much completely rebuilt in 1942 under FDR—is an atrocity akin to the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
And what about under FDR? pic.twitter.com/EUCoFDxe7A
— Kelly Leak (@BadKellyLeak) October 22, 2025
The howling is everywhere, the volume nearly deafening. Maria Shriver, of the Kennedy clan, whose most famous female member renovated the White House herself, is heartbroken.
This breaks my heart and it infuriates me. Hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new ballroom. Good god. https://t.co/zWH6H7pOIC
— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) October 20, 2025
The Kennedy Library explained the principles used by Jackie Kennedy when renovating the building:
Mrs. Kennedy developed her vision for the White House restoration project over the next few months. In April 1961, advisory committee members Lyman Butterfield, editor of the John Adams papers and Julian Boyd, editor of the Thomas Jefferson papers, drafted a treatise entitled "The White House as a Symbol." The authors put forth three controlling principles for the restoration of the White House that ultimately influenced Mrs. Kennedy's plan. The first principle focused on the evolving nature of the White House and the importance of not limiting the style to one time period. The second principle dealt with the "living" character of the White House and the need to reflect the different administrations that had passed through. The third principle focused on the library as an integral part of the White House's symbolic and functional role. Inspired by these suggestions, Mrs. Kennedy decided to focus on the evolving character of the White House, rather than its earliest period, for restoration.
Media was so enthralled with Jackie Kennedy's White House restoration they televised it; per the @JFKLibraryFdn archives.
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 21, 2025
"Mrs. Kennedy's White House restoration receiving lavish attention from the media" https://t.co/0dR2Mnady7
Please try to know US History better https://t.co/RJuNbRGVSa pic.twitter.com/pd5HPFB2Sz
Far from being sacrosanct, the White House gets renovated all the time. And often with far more significant changes than Trump is making. Did you know that there was no Oval Office until Taft installed one? Or that President Franklin Roosevelt demolished the original and recreated it elsewhere in 1934?
Truman famously gutted the White House during his term. This was no small renovation. The entire interior was ripped out and replaced with more modern construction.
Since everyone is having such a hissy fit over the renovations of the White House,which to my understanding the President is paying for personally, I thought I’d post a few photos of the renovations under Harry Truman, which the government paid for. In other words, the taxpayers pic.twitter.com/hTCIe6Ewxh
— Alana Stewart (@AlanaKStewart) October 21, 2025
Did you know that the West Wing of the White House didn't exist until Teddy Roosevelt decided to have it built? It is the heart of what we now consider the White House in terms of power—the TV show wasn't named "Executive Residence, The West Wing for a reason—yet it is only about 125 years old, or half the age of the country.
Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see this picture.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) October 22, 2025
He’s literally destroying the White House. pic.twitter.com/W63bLLwt82
So how much of the White House is being "destroyed?" Well, it's more than a bathroom remodel and less than the size of a good-sized suburban home, more or less. And that small part of the White House is a relatively recent addition, at that.
This is the area of the White House that is being upgraded pic.twitter.com/CEyZRh0D2T
— Pritchbloc (@pritchbloc) October 22, 2025
If Trump were changing the iconic look of the White House--say, putting up rainbow flags on the columns, for instance, or bringing in freaks to defile the grounds, I would understand all the sturm und drang.
Uhm pic.twitter.com/x3Eovpg12w
— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) October 22, 2025
But he's not. He's adding a ballroom, which seems like a pretty standard thing for an Executive Mansion to have, especially in the most powerful country in the world.
Trump's tastes in decoration are not my own, nor those of the ruling class in our society, who tend to prefer understated to the point of sloppiness these days. Grossly expensive jeans and hoodies are more their style, while boring slacks and polos are mine. But world leaders tend to have extravagant places to entertain. State dinners in the UK, for instance, state dinners take place at Buckingham Palace, a place so opulent that Queen Elizabeth II was rumored to dislike it as too cold and impersonal. In France, it is the Élysée Palace that gets the honor of hosting state dinners, although the Palace at Versailles sometimes serves the purpose.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation — a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings — also called Tuesday to pause demolition of the East Wing until Trump's project could go through a transparent review. pic.twitter.com/EqYHzmV4Qm
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 21, 2025
They’re all having a stroke over a facade. pic.twitter.com/AKyPQsPCel
— Doug 🍊 (@Doug__J) October 22, 2025
Of course, America need not follow the lead of the Europeans in how we do things, but then again, there is no reason why something as common in Executive Mansions as a ballroom should trigger anybody.
Personally, I don't care either way. Of all the matters of import in the world today, the construction of a ballroom on the White House grounds is of little import.
Does anybody believe that if Obama had added to the White House, any of these people would squawk? And, of course, Obama wouldn't have raised the funds from private citizens, either.
But Barack had more elegant tastes, at least in their eyes. His was the second Camelot.
Trump is an interloper.
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