President Donald Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom is more than just a metaphor, according to a former Republican congressman.
Demolition crews set to work this week pulling down the East Wing this week, just two days after nationwide No Kings protests against the president and his policies, and former GOP lawmaker Joe Walsh posed a question to Trump's enablers on his "Social Contract" Substack page.
"If Donald Trump next week began demolishing the Washington Monument — because he wanted to change the structure of the Washington Monument and make it look more like Mar-a-Lago or the shape of a T for Trump or whatever — would any Republican say anything?" Walsh asked.
"If Trump took a backhoe to the Washington Monument, if Trump took a bulldozer to the Washington Monument, if Donald Trump on his own next week began tearing down part of the Washington Monument or tearing the whole monument down and restructuring it, would any of his supporters," he added, "would any Republican say anything?"
That's not as ludicrous as it might sound, Walsh argued, saying that no Republicans or anyone in right-wing media has objected to his destruction of the White House.
"The entire process that one must go through to restructure, to change the structure of the White House — Trump ignored all of it," Walsh wrote. "Didn’t involve Congress at all. No vetting at all. No approval by any of the historic groups, the committees, the commissions, the National Park Service. No approval. No permits."
"Trump ignored all of it," the former Tea Party lawmaker added. "He’s doing what he’s doing to the White House all by himself. One man has taken a wrecking ball to the historic landmark that is the White House, the people’s house. And not one f------ Republican has said a thing. Not one Trump supporter has screamed and shouted. Nobody on Fox News has made a big deal of it."
What he's doing to the White House is the same thing he's done to the nation since entering politics a decade ago, Walsh argued, and he said Republicans have stood aside and let him do whatever he wants.
"How sick and sad and scary and pathetic is that?" he wrote. "You see, Trump is a problem, a big problem. He’s everything our Founders feared. He’s an utterly corrupt, dishonest, cruel, ignorant, psychopathic, lawless fascist. That’s a big, big problem to have that in the White House."