Posted on 10/24/2025 5:05:06 PM PDT by simpson96
Chelsea Clinton rebuked the Trump administration’s complete demolition of the White House’s East Wing in an op-ed published Thursday, calling it “a reflection of how easily history can be erased when power forgets purpose.”
In the op-ed published by USA Today, Clinton wrote President Trump “has the right … to pave over the Rose Garden (and denude it of roses) as well as turn the East Wing into a ballroom.”
She also noted Trump’s reported requests to change exhibits at Smithsonian Institution museums and national parks, saying “a disregard for history is a defining trait of President Trump’s second administration.”
“This is what happens when we take a wrecking ball to our heritage,” she wrote.
“Disregarding our democratic institutions and the rule of law or impounding funds that Congress has already approved grow from the same source of disregard for our founding ideals, and the norms and laws that have helped us move, over time, closer to a more perfect union, the cardinal call of our U.S. Constitution,” she continued.
Reflecting on her formative years in the White House while her father Bill Clinton was president, Chelsea Clinton said, “I never once thought, ‘this is my house’ in the way my friends thought of theirs.”
She remembered first lady Barbara Bush giving them a tour following Bill Clinton’s 1992 election win. Eight years later, “my family would welcome the Bush family back,” Chelsea Clinton wrote.
The White House is a “temporary home” changed by every president and his family, she continued. She named off those who made alterations to the executive mansion, including President Theodore Roosevelt’s introduction of the West Wing and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s East Wing makeover that included a movie theater, offices and an underground bunker.
“[First lady Jacqueline] Kennedy famously redecorated the state rooms,” Chelsea Clinton wrote. “My mom [former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton] was the first first lady to bring contemporary art into the White House, a Georgia O’Keeffe.”
“First lady Michelle Obama added a vegetable garden (my mom had only planters full of tomatoes on the roof),” she continued. “And Mrs. Melania Trump, in her husband’s first term, renovated the Rose Garden, adding limestone paths and preserving the surrounding flowers.”
Donald Trump Jr. shared Chelsea Clinton’s post on social platform X where she shared her op-ed. He clapped back at her critique of his father.
“Lol, your parents tried stealing furniture and silverware from the White House,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote. “And let’s not talk about the intern. Sit this one out.”
Chelsea: are you really this stupid ? What would your daddy’s Webb think about this?
Yay. More whining from ugly white women.
Who give a rip what Web Hubble’s kid has to say.
Your TV parents stole silverware, furniture, and art from the White House, that’s your heritage.
Maybe STFU on this one, little Hubbel.
Chelsea,
Not only are you physically ugly,
you are even more, way more mentally ugly.
Not being a very hansom person myself
I can make those comments.
Web Hubble’s daughter says what!
Probably nada.
Not me.
Well said.
The CLINTONS are jealous of TRUMP. Their legacy: Monica and the cigar and the White House silver heist.
TRUMP’S legacy is “Promise made. Promise kept.” and the beautiful ballroom and outdoor patio will be a reminder of the BUILDER PRESIDENT - DONALD TRUMP and his beautiful wife MELANIA who put America back together again with dignity and grace.
How come we haven’t heard a peep from George Bush’s daughters Jenna and Barbara? Or how about Amy Carter?
You won’t here from them because they have real jobs unlike the entire Clinton family who have NEVER had a real job in their entire lives. Always sucking off government or fake 501 charity (like the Clinton Foundation) that steals donations from the Haiti earthquake.
Chelsea thinks she has such gravitas and wit because of all the left wing sycophants that worship at her feet. Everyone else in the world laughs at the Clinton clowns. /spit
“””What does she have to say about leftist tearing down monuments? “””
And renaming everything.
Hypocrite leftists.
All the presidents did major renovations.
Like the stereotype of a black man as President wanting to shoot hoops all the time. Obama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obkwOcNQCdI
Who ?
That’s true.
The hypocrites make up new found respect for history while they destroy history to replace it with feminist, trans, lgbtq Communist version.
Chelsea should talk to her father about taking a wrecking ball to the Office of the President, specifically under his desk.
WOW considering what her fake ass daddy did in the Oval Office she is one to talk..and lets not forget how Mommy dearest took EVERYTHING not bolted to the floor from the White House, they were forced to give it all back
She needs to talk certain others about this.
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