For anyone in doubt, I can report that the White House is still standing. To be precise, the original mansion, completed in 1800, the final year of John Adams ’s presidency, remains where it always has been (with its interior installed by President Harry Truman between 1949 and 1951).

The East Wing added by President Theodore Roosevelt and reconstructed by his fifth cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt , is, however, gone. President Donald Trump demolished it to make way for a big ballroom.

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