Workers have demolished much of the 83-year-old East Wing in preparation for President Donald Trump’s planned $250 million ballroom at the White House.
Demolition work began without prior public notice on Oct. 20, when workers took down the entrance to the East Wing. Dismantling continued the next day when much of the East Wing was torn down.
The work contradicts Trump’s statement in July that the ballroom would not interfere with the current building. “It’ll be near it but not touching it,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Trump's White House ballroom is something he’s always wanted, the centerpiece of what’s planned as the largest construction project for the executive mansion since the Harry Truman administration.
Trump, in a post on social media, said the East Wing is "being fully modernized as part of this process and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete."
