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New Yorker: Trump Tore Down East Wing to Display Arbitrary Power over Presidency
Newsbusters ^ | October 28, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/29/2025 6:26:54 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

New Yorker magazine has an amusing analysis by art writer Adam Gopnik as to why President Donald Trump tore down the East Wing in order to build a new ballroom next to the White House. The supposed reason gives us insight into just how much corrosive TDS has eaten away at anything resembling rational thought at that periodical.

You can descend into the New Yorker rabbit hole in their bizarre screed published on Saturday in "Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing." The subtitle lays out the dopey thesis: "The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat."

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So the New Yorker is basically claiming that the primary reason the East Wing is being replaced is just a Power Trip by Trump.
1 posted on 10/29/2025 6:26:54 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

And yet they had no problem whatsoever when Obeyme had the taxpayers foot the bill for his basketball court.


2 posted on 10/29/2025 6:29:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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It’s funny how liberals just make up reasons people do things.


3 posted on 10/29/2025 6:30:10 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I swear these people have lost their minds.


4 posted on 10/29/2025 6:30:27 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: No name given

The indoor court cost twice as much as the 1000 person ornate ballroom. Let that sink in.

EC


5 posted on 10/29/2025 6:38:57 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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Trump is an open book. He is interested in upscale buildings. He has built sky scrapers and luxury hotels. He has owned an airline. Is it any wonder that he wanted to update Air Force 1 and add a needed ballroom to the White House with his imprint? No reading of tea leaves needed here.


6 posted on 10/29/2025 6:38:59 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Fine by me. They say dictator we point out the Kenyan was ineligible to run. What’s the difference?


7 posted on 10/29/2025 6:39:10 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: No name given

Obeyme or obuyme?


8 posted on 10/29/2025 6:43:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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the east wing renovation is a thing

to avoid talking about some other thing


9 posted on 10/29/2025 6:44:21 AM PDT by joshua c
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“I won!”


10 posted on 10/29/2025 6:45:15 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Hey adam, seek help. You really need it! Did obama and other presidents “seek to exert thwir power” wheh th3y modified things? Grow up sir!


11 posted on 10/29/2025 6:46:01 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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“ I swear these people have lost their minds.”

This is what happens to the vacuous and emotionally weak when confronted with the reality that virtually everything they believe and support is proven to be false. TDS is apparently a form of mental illness.


12 posted on 10/29/2025 6:49:30 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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Because nothing says power like a party tent in the yard.


13 posted on 10/29/2025 6:51:10 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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The White House needed a ballroom to host guests of state. President Trump saw the need and got it done.

JEALOUSY rears it’s head again against a can do President by can’t do Democrats.


14 posted on 10/29/2025 6:52:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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What’s an Adam Gopnik?


15 posted on 10/29/2025 6:56:50 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Let’s turn the tables: Liberals have never built the ballroom because they hate their gusts and people and want them to step in mud, dine in tents, and pee in a port-a-potty.

Trump is a civilized man with class and loves people, so he is paying to build them a nice facility.


16 posted on 10/29/2025 7:04:38 AM PDT by CodeToad
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The New Yorker is basically whining about something that isn’t happening pure media logic.

Feeding the ignorant as usual.


17 posted on 10/29/2025 7:13:18 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Folks,

keep you eye on the ball, Trump just likes to dance with his wife.


18 posted on 10/29/2025 7:20:52 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Obama should have taken Trumps offer in 2010. It was unbecoming to put up gawky tents and make foreign dignitaries use porta potties. Gross


19 posted on 10/29/2025 7:22:18 AM PDT by griswold3 (cTruth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: No name given

So he could shoot granny style.


20 posted on 10/29/2025 7:23:38 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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