Michelle Obama gives harrowing nine-word response to Trump’s destruction of East Wing

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Former first lady expresses dismay over demolition: ‘That’s not our house. That’s the people’s house’

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed her dismay over President Donald Trump’s brutal demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for his new ballroom, commenting: “I felt a loss for us as a nation.”