Trump Said His Ballroom Wouldn't Affect The White House - He LIED

Donald Trump's narcissism is out of control (or is it dementia). He decided, without congressional or public approval, that he wanted a monument to himself. He decided it would be a huge ballroom named after himself.

When he announced it, he said it would not affect any of the current White House. It would sit next to the East Wing of the White House. HE LIED! Now we learn that he increased to size of the proposed ballroom from a 600 person capacity to a capacity of over 900. And to accommodate the larger version, the East Wing of the White House would have to go.

Without seeking permission (and in secret), he began the demolition of the entire East Wing. We should not have believed his initial promise. We know he lies repeatedly and has no problem with breaking promises - and as Andy Borowitz points out, Trump and his family have a history of breaking promises and destroying beloved landmarks:

Trump learned everything he knows about real estate from his father, Fred Trump—and much of what he knows about wanton vandalism. Steeplechase Park was one of the most beloved amusement parks in Coney Island, Brooklyn. In 1966, after Trump’s dad acquired the property (accompanied by nineteen-year-old Donald at the signing ceremony), with plans to demolish it and build residential units, outraged citizens attempted to save it by applying to have it designated as a landmark.

Before Steeplechase’s landmark status could be certified, however, Fred Trump organized a “demolition party” at which he urged a mob to smash the glass facade of the park’s Pavilion of Fun. “Trump sent out engraved invitations and invited people to throw rocks and bricks through the Funny Face—it was a desecration of an icon, it was insane,” Charles Denson, the Coney Island History Project’s executive director, told the Brooklyn Paper. “Most developers are worried about making a profit, most wouldn’t throw a party to desecrate a stained-glass window.”

Donald Trump would continue his father’s proud tradition of gleeful destruction when he demolished the Bonwit Teller Building on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to clear the site for Trump Tower. After saying he’d try to preserve the building’s priceless Art Deco friezes so that they could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Trump discovered that it would cost $32,000 to remove them intact. As a clever solution to his problem, he had his workmen smash them to bits.

The trashing of the Bonwit friezes, as reprehensible as it was, is nothing compared to Trump’s most ambitious act of architectural desecration: the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the January 6 assault resulted in property damage totaling $2.7 billion, a cost to be borne by American taxpayers.

Trump is just following a family tradition of lying and destruction. And he has done it to feed his own ego by building a huge (and probably crass) monument to himself. A monument nearly twice as large as the rest of the White House. The ballroom will be 90,000 square feet, while the rest of the White House is only 55,000 square feet. 

This is worse than a disgrace - it is a sacrilege!