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The president says the sound of bulldozers on the East Wing is “music to my ears.”
“You probably hear the beautiful sound of construction to the back,” Donald Trump advised reporters Tuesday from a podium overlooking his newly paved “Rose Garden Club” terrace, alongside the new “Presidential Walk of Fame” that includes gold-framed portraits of his predecessors (and an “autopen” for Joe Biden).
“You hear that sound?” he stated, raising his hand to his ear as if to savor the clamor from construction of the new $300 million White House ballroom that started Monday.
“Ahhh, that’s music to my ears. I love that sound. Other people don’t like it, I love it.”
It was a wry jab at Trump-deranged critics of his massive, lovely ballroom, who’re dropping their minds over his beautification of the White House.
Suddenly, the people who cheered on as vandal revolutionaries toppled statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln or tore down Confederate monuments are ardent preservers of American historical past.
“Just grotesque,” snarled famend aesthete, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Scarborough.
“It’s history being torn to shreds.”
This is the man who championed “Fort Al Sharpton” to supplant the historic titles of navy bases named after Confederate generals.
“It’s not his house,” tweeted Hillary Clinton, whose best-known contribution to the White House was making off with $28,000 of furnishings when she and Bill moved out.
“It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”
Whoopi Goldberg, who as soon as urged on the elimination of a Lincoln statue in Boston, bellowed at Trump via a TV digicam from her perch at ABC’s “The View”: “You don’t own that building!”
Ironic criticism
Irony of all ironies, Joe Biden’s former DEI press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared the ballroom, which is being funded by Trump and different non-public donors as a present to the nation, “is corruption at its core.”
This from a lady who gaslit America on Biden household grifting, to not point out her boss’ cognitive collapse.
“There’s no greater metaphor for what’s happening right now in this country than watching Donald Trump take a wrecking ball to the White House,” she stated.
Spare us.
The ballroom is a historic — and properly overdue — enhancement of the White House and gained’t value the taxpayer a penny.
There may also be a bolstered, attack-proof metal roof and all types of different national security enhancements long on the want checklist of the US navy, which Trump hinted at Wednesday during a assembly with the secretary-general of NATO within the Oval Office.
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“The military is very much involved in this. They want to make sure everything is absolutely beautiful.”
Waving round architectural drawings, Trump additionally admitted for the primary time that the East Wing can be demolished — and fast, most likely by the weekend.
As a seasoned property developer, he is aware of that you just by no means give naysayers time to complain.
Jean-Pierre is proper about one factor, although.
Trump’s beautification and enchancment initiatives on the White House actually are a metaphor for what he is trying for the nation as a complete.
Taking pride in DC
For occasion, he takes personal pride within the restoration of Washington, DC, since he introduced his crime crackdown.
He equates civic magnificence with law and order, one thing his critics can’t perceive.
“I hop in the Beast,” he stated on Tuesday, “and I inform the Secret Service, ‘Let’s drive round city . . .
“This place is wanting actually good, and we haven’t even began on the actual fixing-up of the city. We’re getting rid of the graffiti . . . a lot of that stunning statuary marble had pink graffiti throughout it . . .
“The grass is good, the fences are down, there’s no tents . . . it’s just a whole new look and the most important thing is there’s no crime. We’re going to fix the roads — we have great pavers. We’re going to fix the medians in between the roads which half of them are falling down. We’re going to take some of the tiles off the tunnels — they’ve been up for 40 years and they’re rotted — we’ll put up brand new gorgeous white tiles.”
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Trump treats the White House and all its artifacts with reverence, and is all the time strolling round rearranging portraits and furnishings, when he’s not blinging up the Oval Office or planning an “Arc de Trump.”
He was personally affronted when a cameraman ran into a mirror on the wall of the Cabinet Room Monday the place the president was assembly with the Australian prime minister.
“Ay-yi-yi,” he clucked in dismay.
“That mirror is 400 years old . . . I just moved it up here, special from the vaults, and the first thing that happens — a camera hits it. Hard to believe, but these are the problems in life.”
To perceive Trump’s mindset — the big-vision statesman and detail-freak perfectionist, it’s a must to learn “Under Siege,” the riveting bestseller simply launched by youthful son Eric Trump, a chip off the previous block in each manner however love of the limelight.
Eric, who took over his father’s multibillion-dollar property empire at age 33 and calls himself “the most subpoenaed man in history,” has written a searing account of the assaults his household endured as soon as Trump entered politics, and how it made all of them stronger.
Largely silent
We know concerning the lawfare towards Trump, however the household has been largely silent concerning the concerted effort to destroy their companies, from the jailing of their long-time chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, to being debanked by the likes of Chase, First Republic, Capital One, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Signature Bank, Investors Savings Bank, Cushman & Wakefield, Aon Insurance, Professional Bank, Shopify and Barclays.
It’s a tribute to Eric that he held all of it collectively.
But what actually comes via within the e-book is his father’s ardour for building and creating.
Eric writes that his father put him to work younger on his construction initiatives and taught him the worth of a greenback.
But Trump additionally taught his son to “love and appreciate craftsmanship [and the] people who are capable of creating something beautiful with their hands. We live in a world where many people can’t hang a picture on a wall correctly.”
Donald Trump “is a builder. He built skylines, resorts, and businesses. And he built a family.”
Now the president is placing that zeal for building lovely issues into restoring America. His opponents haven’t constructed a factor. They are simply good at nitpicking and destruction.
