A real-life Indiana Jones likened Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” White House destruction to the cultural vandalism once committed by ISIS.
Trump began tearing into the East Wing this week to clear space for his gaudy $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, despite having vowed to leave the historic structure untouched.
“You can start tonight, you have no approvals,” the 79-year-old previously boasted of the project, ordering large sections of the Roosevelt-era building to be torn down, while calling the sound of wrecking “music to my ears.”
With the part of the Executive Mansion which has hosted key historic moments and popular public tours now set to vanish for good, archaeologist Matthew Vincent—who is originally from Seattle, Washington, and is program director at the American C

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