As Donald Trump stirs up more national outrage over his demolition of the White House ‘s East Wing , one of his favorite dinner guests is brushing off the controversy.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time , Bill Maher gave a flippant response when guest panelist Michael Steele mourned “the destruction of a symbol of this government” after the Trump administration had the historic structure torn down to make way for his ballroom.
“You’re talking about the White House? Oh, it’s a building, Mike. It’s a building.”
Steele argued that Trump “tore it down without accountability,” explaining, “It’s a building, maybe to you, but to a lot of Americans, it’s not. And I’m gonna tell you, as a young kid growing up in D.C., when my daddy took me by that building , it meant somethin

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