Trump Admits He Could’ve Built Ballroom Without Destroying the East Wing, But ‘It Looked Like Hell’

Charlie Nash Nov 10th, 2025, 9:01 pm

President Donald Trump admitted on Monday that he could have built his new White House ballroom without destroying the East Wing, but it “was a poor, sad sight” that “looked like hell.”

Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham about former First Lady Michelle Obama’s criticism of the destruction of the White House East Wing, Trump said:

First of all, the East Wing was a beautiful little, tiny structure that was built many years ago, that was renovated and expanded and despanded and columns ripped out. It had nothing to do with the original building. It was a poor, sad sight, and I could’ve built the ballroom around it, but it would not have

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