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New information about the Biden White House cocaine scandal was revealed this week. A baggy of cocaine was discovered in the West Wing after Hunter Biden visited the White House in early July 2023. The Secret Service closed its investigation into the Biden White House cocaine scandal without conducting any interviews. No suspect was identified. According to CNN, the baggy of cocaine was “found in a blind spot for surveillance cameras.” The White House initially said there were no fingerprints, DNA samples, or leads. However, it was later revealed that there was a partial DNA hit and then-Secret Service Director...

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...

There's stupid, and then there's Democrat stupid. Now I don't mean stupid as in low IQ—although there are plenty of low IQ Democrats, the same applies to people from all walks of life. Instead, I mean "stupid" in the sense that one has priorities that don't align with any sane goals, but rather are driven by emotions and desires that bear no relationship to achieving them. There are lots of high-IQ stupid people in this sense. Democrats own a particular brand of stupid these days: emotional incontinence, which is expressed most commonly as Trump Derangement Syndrome. If Donald Trump is...

President Donald Trump’s privately funded plan to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom has Democrats like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren fuming about “luxury” while they’ve shut down the government. Presidents have remodeled the White House for over a century—from Harry Truman’s gut renovation to Barack Obama’s basketball court—yet only Trump gets scorn. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the hypocrisy on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “Do we really want to know what belittles the White House? I mean, we're just coming off the Biden administration, where cocaine was found in a carrel in the West...

The Washington Post's boastful front-page slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." But on today's Morning Joe, Post columnist David Ignatius kept viewers in the darkness regarding his own paper. The show devoted yet another long segment to denouncing President Trump's ballroom project, and in particular, his decision to demolish the East Wing that was deemed necessary. [snip] Ignatius offered a metaphorical analogy of his own: "This is the presidency as wrecking ball." He went so far as to claim that "the destruction of the East Wing has really upset people in a way that even Trump's most outrageous other actions...

The Washington Post editorial board defended President Donald Trump's ballroom construction on Sunday and argued that the next Democratic president would be happy to have the ballroom."In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties," the editorial board wrote.Construction crews began demolition of the East Wing...

It didn’t take long for someone to go to court and attempt to seize control of the president’s White House renovation project.The White House — the People’s House — can’t fit many people in its walls for special events, so it must pitch a tent about one football field away from the building for major functions. Event capacity is capped at 200 people in the White House’s East Room. It has been a problem for more than 150 years, according to the Trump administration. Now Trump is using around $300 million in private money to make the White House more...

A star chef from the show "Top Chef" tried to raise outrage over the demolition for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom renovation, but he was mocked and ridiculed instead. Tom Colicchio posted a photograph he said was from the East Room of the White House, which is being renovated to make way for a large ballroom. "My wife and I in the East Wing. I can’t believe it is gone," he posted on his official social media account. However, as many quickly noted, the photograph was not from the East Room at all, but actually from the Diplomatic Reception...

[snip] Today, Katty Kay called the project "a let-them-eat-cake moment" given that it was happening during a government shutdown in which some food welfare benefits are on hold. Eugene Robinson took it an absurd step further, claiming: "People in Washington don't seem to have a sense of how ridiculous and infuriating this is to everybody else in the country."On behalf of tens of millions of people outside Washington, let me assure you, Gene: we're not infuriated, although many might be mildly amused by your hyperbole. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The White House announced plans to construct a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that will cost approximately $200 million. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said construction will begin in September. “President Trump, and other patriot donors, have generously committed to donating the funds necessary to build this approximately $200 million dollar structure. The United States Secret Service will provide the necessary security enhancements and modifications,” the White House said in a release. 🚨Just in: The White House has announced plans to construct a new 90,000 sq. ft. ballroom, with construction set to begin in September. The $200 million project will be fully...

Demolition began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to make way for President Trump’s massive new $250 million ballroom. Photos provided to The Post show that construction crews have already ripped off the covered entrance that for decades greeted visitors going on tours or attending special events. Windows facing the Treasury Department are smashed and half-off their hinges and the former upper-floor White House calligraphy office bears a gaping hole. Video that circulated after the photos were snapped shows a large demolition machine reaching well into the structure to pull out rubble as a hose sprays water...

The White House is adding a ballroom and it’s basically the end of the world.That’s been the media message the last few days as the Left has been in near hysterics about a much-needed expansion to the president’s mansion. I guess the government shutdown isn’t going quite as well as they thought.“‘It’s your house. And he’s destroying it’: Trump demolishes White House East Wing,” reads a headline from Politico.“Trump is destroying the entire White House East Wing to feed his ego,” reads another headline on MSNBC.This is, truly, one of the dumbest media-concocted “scandals” of the Trump era. And that’s...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has praised a piece published in a liberal news outlet about Trump's ballroom project. 'First dose of common sense I’ve seen from the legacy media on this story,' Leavitt wrote on X, sharing a Saturday piece from the Washington Post Editorial Board, which has been revamped in 2025 to share more libertarian views. The Board used the editorial piece to push back on the 'Not In My Back Yard' crowd, often called NIMBY's. 'In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible,' the Board writes, while...

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...

🚨BREAKING: People are digging up a 2010 CNN clip showing Obama’s $376M White House makeover — all paid for by taxpayers. Meanwhile President Trump’s $250M ballroom is coming out of his own pocket.

Go to the Major Events Timeline on the About The White House web page. Scroll through the timeline to the right, using the arrow on the text below the pictures. You'll discover that Trump's White House trolls have been hard at work.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has become the latest to succumb to what Trump supporters are now calling “BDS” – Ballroom Derangement Syndrome. The southern California congressman wants a pledge from any 2028 Democrat presidential candidate that he or she will demolish President Donald Trump’s planned “big beautiful ballroom” — or not bother to seek the party’s nomination. “Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE,” Swalwell wrote on X on Saturday night.

Somehow, Rep. Eric Swalwell has appointed himself the enforcer of the entire Democrat party. So now he's issued this marching order to his fellow Democrats: Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE. — Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 26, 2025 Which is pretty grotesque. Democrats are planning to appeal to voters on this selling point? It seems a little ... unimportant, given the kinds of problems created by Democrats that President Trump is now solving. What's more, it's a bad idea --...

Glenn Beck told a fun story about a recent visit to the White House, where he had a conversation with President Trump about the thinking that went into the new "gilded" Oval Office and the construction of a massive ballroom on the site of the East Wing. Beck says Trump told him: "You see all the gold? It’s so important. These foreign leaders—they all come from palaces, and they don’t understand. And I know the White House is different, America is different, but they understand power in a different way. They’re coming from these old countries and these big buildings...