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Seth Meyers on Trump’s White House ballroom: ‘This couldn’t be any more of a bait and switch’

Late-night hosts discussed the president’s demolition of the East Wing to make room for a huge $300m gilded ballroom

The Guardian - US

Photos of the week | October 17-23, 2025 - Roll Call

This week saw dueling news conferences, the nationwide No Kings protest, and the demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Roll Call

Trump Completes Demolition Of White House East Wing: Satellite Images

Demolition workers have finished tearing down the White House's entire East Wing to make way for US President Donald Trump's giant new $300 million ballroom, satellite pictures showed Thursday.

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Trump’s East Wing destruction sparks series of memes mocking what’s next for the White House

While Trump previously said he wouldn’t interfere with the existing structure of the East Wing, his construction crews began to tear it down this week

The Independent UK

If Trump’s East Wing demolition shocks you, check out what he did to priceless works meant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A young Trump took on development of a historic Art Deco building on Fifth Avenue in the late 1970s

The Independent UK

Trump’s ballroom blitz sparks chorus of disgust: ‘The perfect symbol’

Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would look like – the president seems bent on proving him right

The Guardian - US

Trump reveals the friends who convinced him to call off surging troops into San Francisco: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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Trump defends $300M ballroom project: "We had to take down the existing" East Wing

A D.C. historical group said the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom "will overwhelm the White House itself."

Axios

Trump now says his ballroom will cost $300M and the entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished to make space

Trump admitted the price of his gold-plated 90,000 square-foot ballroom was likely going to cost $100 million more than the initial price tag

The Independent UK

US sanctions major Russian oil companies and calls for Moscow to accept immediate Ukraine ceasefire – as it happened

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’

The Guardian - US

Stephen Colbert on Trump’s White House East Wing demolition: ‘So deeply unsettling’

Late-night hosts discuss the president’s partial demolition of the East Wing for his $250m gilded ballroom project

The Guardian - US

Karoline Leavitt blames Democrats being ‘jealous’ for outrage over White House demolition for Trump’s ballroom

‘He’s the builder-in-chief,’ the White House Press Secretary said of the president while defending his new ballroom project

The Independent UK

White House Demolition Gives Way to £186M Ballroom as Donald Trump Breaks Promise Not To Destroy East Wing

Previously, Donald Trump said that the ballroom will not interfere with the current White House building. Unfortunately, it did as the East Wing is now being demolished.

International Business Times UK

Trump promises his ballroom construction won’t ‘interfere’ with White House in resurfaced video

A video of Donald Trump promising that the East Wing will not be damaged during construction of his White House ballroom has resurfaced.

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Viral images of White House demolition spark edict to Treasury staffers next door after critics shred Trump ballroom work as ‘grotesque’

Treasury Department employees told in email that they could ‘potentially reveal sensitive items, including security features’ by snapping photos of the work, and sharing them online

Benzinga

Elizabeth Warren Says Trump Is Deaf To Cost Of Living 'Over The Sound Of Bulldozers' Knocking Down White House Wing For New Grand Ballroom

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday mocked President Donald Trump over fresh demolition work over at the White House, saying complaints about the rising cost of living won't register "over the sound of bulldozers" tearing into the East Wing for a grand ballroom.

International Business Times

Trump Demolishes Part Of White House For New Ballroom

Donald Trump has often been dubbed a political wrecking ball for his unorthodox style -- and now the US president has literally started demolition work on the White House.

The Independent UK

Trump’s wrecking crew starts East Wing demolition for White House ballroom: ‘More damage than the British did in 1814’

Workers began ripping into the White House facade on Monday

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The Independent UK

The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building