President Donald Trump has demolished the White House’s East Wing, startling historic preservationists and drawing national ire on his way to building what he says will be a new 8,400-square-metre (90,000-square-foot) ballroom.

Amid criticism of this projected $300m project, however, Trump’s defenders are pointing to another White House renovation in recent memory to suggest the current outrage is unwarranted.

“A CNN report from 2010: $376 million White House renovation during the Obama Administration,” read an October 22 X post that shared a 25-second clip of a CNN news story. “Where was the Democrat outrage then?”

“BREAKING,” read another X post that reshared the same video clip. “People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover all paid for by taxpay

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