Jon Stewart ripped Donald Trump for going back on his word that he wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing structure before he demolished the White House’s East Wing to build his ballroom.
Responding to a listener question on his Weekly Show podcast Thursday that asked whether it would be more “cost effective” for Trump to “just make Mar-a-Lago the new White House and Palm Beach, the new capital,” Stewart quipped that would be “smart.”
“That is fiscally responsible. That is somebody that is looking out for the debt,” Stewart said, unlike the president, who officially embarked on his brazen ballroom project Monday when the White House began its tear-down. “I don’t know if any of you have ever had to try to like, redo a bathroom, but it is a s--t show when it comes to permits and everything