Trump Begins Defacing White House

 

Although it could be successfully argued that the Malignant Fascist defaced the White House the moment he first stepped over the threshold, an egregious physical defacing is now underway in service to the megalomaniac's desire to have his own imperial ballroom constructed:

Demolition crews on Monday began tearing down part of the White House to build President Donald Trump’s long-desired ballroom despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building.  [Ed. -- Shocker! He lied.]

Construction teams were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure, according to a photo shared with The Washington Post and two people who witnessed the activity and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.

A cluster of people, including members of the Secret Service, stood on the steps of the Treasury Department to watch the construction unfold, said one of the people. Sounds of construction were also audible on the White House campus, although the project was not easily visible to the public given fencing on the grounds.  [snip]

Trump has long touted his plans for a 90,000-square-foot structure that would nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings. He had also suggested that the construction would not affect the existing White House. 

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” Trump said during an executive order signing in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe construction on the ballroom, confirmed that the demolition process on the East Wing began Monday. Other parts of the project, such as efforts to preserve objects of historical value, have been underway for several weeks, the official said.

Officials declined to provide an explanation for Trump’s earlier comments that the new construction would not interfere with the existing building. Officials have separately said that the ballroom would replace the East Wing, noting the many changes made to that structure long before Trump’s presidency. [snip]

The administration also said that it expected construction to begin by September, detailing plans to make some of the most significant changes to “the People’s House” in a century. Trump originally estimated the project would cost $200 million to build but has since upped that to $250 million.  [snip]

Trump last week also touted his planned ballroom during a dinner with executives from the tech, finance and defense industries, telling them that the project was fully financed after receiving donations as large as $25 million from dozens of companies, including Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Coinbase. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

That's right, all the go- along- to- get- along colluding companies and their billionaire execs chipped in millions to see that the desecration of the White House grounds became a reality in order to make the MF happy.  There's no going back to the way things were before the MF's assault on America.  But at least when the MF and his craven catchfarts and enablers are gone, one of the first actions in de-Nazifying America must be to demolish this ballroom that's a symbol of the MF's imperial pretensions, and send the bill for demo and reconstruction to the spineless corporations that paid for it.  No Kings in America!

(Photo:  let the defacing begin! / screenshot via WaPo)