Demolishing the White House's East Wing

Background

First Trump shits on the American people, then...

— Paul Rosenberg (@paulrosenberg.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T19:32:38.659Z

"Yes, yes, it *is* sad that you lost the family farm, but have you heard about the big beautiful ballroom that President Trump is building at the White House? It's going cost a quarter of a billion dollars! Yes, billion, with a b. ... What? ... No, you can't come see it. What a stupid question."

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T19:19:47.919Z

This is insane. “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) 2025-10-20T19:14:26.441Z

Aganst the Law- (Read this thread)

1/x: This is small-potatoes corruption, BUT It's worth noting that it takes a LONG time to get a building permit. You have to have full architectural plans that get approved which means you have to draw them up AND pass them to someone who looks them over. They're breaking the law here.

— Crip Dyke (@cripdyke.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T18:48:08.793Z

There’s always Two Sides

Experts disagreed on whether portions of the facade of the White House were literally being torn down by an excavator. A spokesperson for Just Rip It To Shreds With A Fucking Excavator, a nonpartisan environmental policy think-tank, said that the photographs were “unconvincing Marxist propaganda”.

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy.co) 2025-10-20T19:18:20.830Z

Summary

The Trump administration, in one image.

— Sean Casten (@seancasten.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T20:15:22.557Z