Since President Trump announced his plan to build a White House ballroom this summer, members of his administration have been making contradictory remarks about what that means for the East Wing.

In July, Trump promised the project “won’t interfere with the current building. … It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.”

But that same month, the White House put out a press release that said, “The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits.”

So understandably, people were caught off-guard when they saw a backhoe tearing through the outer façade of the East Wing on October 20.

The administration’s stance on what we’re supposed to know about th

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