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.”
I wonder who wrote that for her?
“This is what happens when we take a wrecking ball to our heritage,” she wrote.
Dems make a career doing that.
Your dad did it first.
I WONDER HOW MUCH SHE THINKS ABOUT HER BIOLOGICAL DADDY???
Chelsea renders her opinion based on a total perverted view of our nation’s heritage.
Maybe you should ask mommy or daddy what putting a cigar in an inappropriate place does for our “Heritage”?
“”a reflection of how easily history can be erased””
We’ve heard from Hillary, now from Chelsea, when does Bill chime in? There is some HISTORY that CAN’T be erased, Chelsea...Ask your parents about it!!!!
I don’t recall Chelsea objecting when rioters “ took a wrecking ball to our heritage “ against historical statues and monuments.
Your father took a pair of wrecking balls to the oval office.
Your brother is on a blue dress in the Oval office.
Go kill another fetus.
Sounds like someone who never heard of the Hayden Planetarium. Shut up little girl.
Why isn’t this pathetic criminal loser in prison for many and ongoing grifts?
Ronald Reagan felt shame when he took off his suit jacket in the Oval Office.
BJ Bill Clinton had no problem taking off his under pants in the Oval Office.
These posts are going to age like sour milk when the construction is done.
The destruction of our heritage started the day Bill And Hillary walked through the white house door.
remodeling is not quite the same as tearing down... like what the dems did to so many historic national statues while trying to erase their party’s history
The Bush girls have had a privileged life also.
Their “jobs” are a result of their status just like Clinton.
And they travel in the same social circles and go to each others’ parties.
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