The president says the sound of bulldozers at the East Wing is “music to my ears.”
“You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back,” Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday from a podium overlooking his newly paved “Rose Garden Club” terrace, alongside the new “Presidential Walk of Fame” featuring gold-framed portraits of his predecessors (and an “autopen” for Joe Biden).
“You hear that sound?” he said, raising his hand to his ear as if to savor the clamor from construction of the new $300 million White House ballroom that began Monday.
“Ahhh, that’s music to my ears. I love that sound. Other people don’t like it, I love it.”
It was a wry jab at Trump-deranged critics of his big, beautiful ballroom, who are losing their minds over his beautification of the White House.
“Just grotesque,” snarled renowned aesthete, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Scarborough.
“It’s history being torn to shreds.”
This is the guy who championed “Fort Al Sharpton” to supplant the historic titles of military bases named after Confederate generals.
“It’s not his house,” tweeted Hillary Clinton, whose best-known contribution to the White House was making off with $28,000 of furniture when she and Bill moved out.
“It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”
Whoopi Goldberg, who once urged on the removal of a Lincoln statue in Boston, bellowed at Trump through a TV camera from her perch at ABC’s “The View”: “You don’t own that building!”
Irony of all ironies, Joe Biden’s former DEI press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared the ballroom, which is being funded by Trump and other private donors as a gift to the nation, “is corruption at its core.”
This from a woman who gaslit America on Biden family grifting, not to mention her boss’ cognitive collapse.
“There’s no greater metaphor for what’s happening right now in this country than watching Donald Trump take a wrecking ball to the White House,” she said.
Spare us.
The ballroom is a historic — and well overdue — enhancement of the White House and won’t cost the taxpayer a penny.
There will also be a reinforced, attack-proof steel roof and all sorts of other national security enhancements long on the wish list of the US military, which Trump hinted at Wednesday during a meeting with the secretary-general of NATO in the Oval Office.
