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Demolition of the White House’s East Wing, itself a source of multiple controversies for more than 200 years, was completed Thursday. Excavators were spotted starting Monday tearing it apart. It was home to first lady Melania Trump’s office, the offices of the White House social secretary and calligrapher, as well as the movie theater and the presidential bunker. It’s now described as “the Late Great East Wing” on the White House website for Christmas tours. The staff members of those offices were relocated to other parts of the White House, CNN reported. The demolition will set the stage for construction...

While future guests of the White House will be having a ball in its forthcoming ballroom, for which demolition began on Monday, the massive renovation isn’t the first of its scale at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Since its debut in 1800, and reconstruction in 1817, the presidential residence has seen a number of major facelifts.

Construction crews began dismantling the East Wing on Monday, even as the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has not granted approval for the ballroom itself. According to NPR, NCPC chairman Will Scharf — who is also a Trump aide — said at a September meeting that the commission lacks jurisdiction over demolition or site preparation, only the “vertical build.” At an East Room event with the Louisiana State University baseball team, Trump acknowledged the noise from the construction happening “right behind us,” and added, “They wanted a ballroom for 150 years, and I’m giving that honor to this wonderful place.”

A suspect was arrested on Tuesday night after ramming a car into the barricade of the White House, according to the Secret Service. "On Tuesday, October 21 at approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove his vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th and E St, NW, DC," a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement. "The individual was immediately arrested by U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers, and the vehicle was assessed by Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department and deemed safe," the statement added.

A man was arrested late Tuesday night after driving his vehicle into a security barrier near the White House, according to the U.S. Secret Service. The agency reported that the incident occurred at approximately 10:37 p.m. when the driver struck a security gate at one of the White House entrances. Officers from the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division immediately took the man into custody at the scene. This Could Be the Most Important Video Gun Owners Watch All Year In an official statement, the Secret Service confirmed that investigators conducted a search of the vehicle following the crash and determined there...

Ex-White House residents Bill and Hillary Clinton were mocked on social media Tuesday after the former first lady criticized President Trump’s latest construction project at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hillary took issue with the demolition that began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to accommodate Trump’s massive $250 million ballroom, making it clear that she’s no fan of the renovation. “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” she wrote on X Tuesday morning. Hillary included an image taken from the Washington Post’s coverage of the partial teardown in her tweet, showing rubble piling up...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump has declared the White House a no-go zone for ICE raids until construction is completed on the new ballroom. Trump assured all the construction workers on site that everything would be cool so long as they were working on the ballroom, but he couldn't make any promises after that. "We're going to put just a little hold on the ICE raids until the ballroom is done," said Trump. "I told Tom Homan, I said Tom, you're doing great work, I love what you're doing out there. You can go nuts in Chicago or New York,...

Democrats and their allies in the regime media are so desperate to lay a glove on an ascendant President Trump they are actually accusing him (falsely, obviously) of “destroying” the White House when everyone knows that all he’s doing is adding a $250 million ballroom that won’t cost taxpayers a single penny. Everything lunatics on the left have hurled to try to kill Trump as a political force (and literally) has failed. They tried to frame him as a Russian spy. They twice impeached him over nonsense. They tried to throw him in prison for life and bankrupt his business....

The White House has admitted that the East Wing will be totally demolished to make way for Donald Trump's new ballroom. Trump had originally claimed that the 83-year-old building wouldn't be touched in the construction of the $250 million privately-funded ballroom. But when a backhoe was pictured on Monday smashing through the walls of the historic building it set off alarm bells. Now the White House is confirming that it will be cheaper and more structurally sound to demolish the entire wing, rather than build an extension, an official told The New York Times. The White House was initially cagey...

A former Democrat insider revealed who the “puppet masters” were who allegedly ran the Biden White House, and likened it to “elder abuse.” Lindy Li, a former Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser and National Finance Committee member, told Fox News Digital that many in the White House actually ran the operations for the 46th president. Li spoke as the House Oversight Committee started questioning former President Joe Biden’s Cabinet members about the alleged coverup of his mental decline. “‘[Biden is] definitely complicit, but there were a lot of people behind him, like puppet masters. [Former first lady Jill Biden] very...

Incoming first lady Melania Trump has yet to publicly name her senior White House staff, raising questions about whether the positions have been filled amid uncertainty about the Trump family’s role in the administration. The lack of announcements from the president-elect’s transition team is notable given that Melania Trump is not moving to Washington, D.C., right away and speculation abounds about the role Ivanka Trump will play in her father’s White House. There has been no chief of staff, communications director or social secretary named for the East Wing. And the chief of staff and social secretary positions are particularly...

Ivanka Trump will reportedly have an office in an area of the White House typically reserved for the first lady after her father becomes president. The reports come amid speculation as to what part Donald Trump’s eldest daughter will play in his administration. Ms Trump has been an influential figure throughout the campaign and transition process, and it emerged last week that she would be taking a leave of absence from the Trump Organisation, where she is an executive vice president, and moving to Washington along with her husband Jared Kushner, who serves as one of his father-in-law’s closest advisers....

WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama is staging picture-perfect photo ops on her tour of China — but back home, her East Wing office is fraught with tension and anxiety, according to a new insider account. Her office “can be a confining, frustrating, even miserable place to work,” writes former White House press assistant Reid Cherlin in an article in The New Republic. “Jealousy and discontentment have festered, as courtiers squabble over the allocation of responsibility and access to Mrs. Obama, both of which can be aggravatingly scarce,” he continues. Michelle Obama has a strong approval rating (69 percent in...

WASHINGTON Well, at least one part of the White House is heeding calls for new blood. Not only is the pastry chef quitting this week, a close look at the first lady's office shows that she has replaced her entire high command after five years in charge of the East Wing. Laura Bush is now on her second chief of staff, Anita McBride. She is on her second projects and policy director, Sonya Medina. She is on her third press secretary, Susan Whitson. She is on her second social secretary, Lea Berman. On the residence staff, she is on her...