Ballroom Blitz: Why a non-profit director says Trump can't skip public input on East Wing demolition - MSNBC Reports

[Rhiannon12866]

The public is weighing in with outrage on Trump’s decision to demolish the historic East Wing of the White House. The new ballroom to be constructed has seen multiple price bumps and is set to be larger than the White House itself.

DC Preservation League Executive Director Rebecca Miller leads a non-profit that would have had input on the demolition, had the public been given consideration. Miller joins Alex Witt to share her insight. - Aired on 10/25/2025.

[tblue37]

1. And yet he did skip it.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. So what can be done now is my question.

He has desecrated The People's House as well as the grounds surrounding it, no ancient trees, no Rose Garden. What does he plan to destroy next - besides our Democratic Republic?

[Uncle Joe]

3. I would bar the current regime from rebuilding anything on that site.

Do everything within our means to stall construction, until the nation has input via the vote on Presidential and congressional input regarding what's to be done with the site.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. The thing was, he kept his illegal demolition under wraps until people started noticing

And I certainly agree with you about his outsized "ballroom." He can barely walk, let alone dance. And when will his monstrosity be finished?? Certainly his abysmal term will be finished by then, or sooner, despite what Steve Bannon says.

[xocetaceans]

5. That would be a great start. To follow on, anything that Trump "builds" without consent . . .

. . . or public funding should be razed as a matter of principle: i.e., "his" "ballroom", "his" "L'Arc de Trump", etc.

He needs to pay the price of the loss of heritage and tradition in the East Wing and needs to provide a full accounting of the disposition of all of the art and artifacts which may have been present or on display there in the East Wing: in my estimation the valuation of that loss for a country that has a GDP measured in the tens of trillions of dollars ($29.18 trillion in 2024) would be on the order of tens of billions of dollars. The US could happily accept ownership of Mara-a-Lago for removal and redevelopment as a memorial to the historical victims of slavery and lynchings. Beyond that, Trump Tower, his golf courses, and other real estate holdings should be taken for redevelopment and as recompense for the destruction of the East Wing.

Generally speaking, he is minimally an insurrectionist and should be treated like Akhenaten at the very least.