A federal judge has slammed Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and plan to build a $400m ballroom where it once stood as “brazen”, and has indicated he might terminate the project later this month.
“I’m struggling to see this as an ‘alteration’,” Judge Richard Leon said on Tuesday during a hearing in a lawsuit brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) seeking to halt construction until the president has won congressional approval and passed independent reviews.
