Posted on 10/26/2025 1:30:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
One of the stars of the White House is no more.
The White House Family Theater, the movie theater which first came to be in 1942 when a cloakroom was converted into a screening room, was demolished this week as part of the destruction of the East Wing to make room for President Donald Trump’s planned $300 million ballroom.
From sporting events to film screenings, the theater provided entertainment and enjoyment to presidents and their families since the latter part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.
According to The White House Historical Association, Roosevelt enjoyed watching World War II-era news reels in the former cloakroom in the East Terrace at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, “and took special interest in the battles fought in Europe and Asia.”
The 32nd US president demonstrated an understanding of the importance of pop culture, including movies.
“Entertainment is always a national asset,” Roosevelt said in 1943 as the United States was engaged in WWII. “Invaluable in time of peace, it is indispensable in wartime.”
Not that there weren’t movies shown in the White House before that.
Well before the installation of the White House Family Theater, then-President Woodrow Wilson screened 1915’s “The Birth of a Nation,” with the film projected onto the walls of the East Room.
Later presidents greatly enjoyed showing movies in the theater, and the George W. Bush Library detailed that film screenings would run the gamut from official events with members of the public invited as guests to “private events and intended for the enjoyment of the President, his family, and his close friends and staff.”
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They can watch on their iPads.
And I suppose it will be impossible to watch movies elsewhere in the white hut complex.
If Bill Clinton said that it is because the seats were used for something else. Hope they burnt them.
PORN ?
Is it true that Obama spent $400M of the taxpayers’ money on a basketball court?
Gosh - Lisa Respers France is arcing out over this.
Hope she doesn’t swallow her tongue during the fit.
Anyway, people can watch movies on a nice flat screen TV with a sound system in their living room or bedroom.
No movie theater needed.
And the left decorated with unicorns and rainbows and streaked nekkid snorting coke.
Maybe someone can ask CNN why Obama needed a BASKETBALL COURT at the White House..who besides Obama would use it..NO ONE but him and Big Mike..meanwhile a Ballroom will be used by EVERYONE..they are acting like once Trump leaves he takes the Ballroom with him LOL its there forever, it will be used by everyone regardless of political party..but since Trump is doing it the commies have to pretend OMG we are SO outraged, NO THEY ARE NOT
Yep he sure did, but hey Obama was the messiah he can do whatever he wanted dont ya know
Bill Clinton may have said that, but he really considered young female groupies the best perk of the job.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/
Major Events Timeline
1998
Bill Clinton Scandal
President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, leading to White House perjury investigations. The Oval Office trysts fueled impeachment for obstruction.
Oh no..."the Sky is Falling"...this is worse than Watergate!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4348775/posts?page=14#14
It’s actually on the White House “About” web page.
😂😂😂
(And if Bill Clinton was single, I'd have agreed with him.)
If it makes Bill sad, I’m glad
Movie Theater?
The president can have a movie night when he’s back home from his deployment to the White House
What? He’s supposed to negotiate trade deals over a Bruce Springsteen biopic?
My late aunt told me in 1991 we would never see the Clinton’s leave the political stage
I knew she was right
My whole adult life I have to hear idiocy from these two, their surviving coconsprators and now their daughter
No, it was a small part of an ongoing WH upgrade.
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