All posts tagged "East Wing"

A White House aide’s new video offers a sweeping look at President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction site, where the historic East Wing once stood — revealing the staggering scale of the pit left behind.

White House communications adviser Margo Martin posted the 24-second clip Friday. It shows Trump speaking with a construction worker before the camera pans across the sprawling site, revealing towering cranes and construction equipment.

“President @realDonaldTrump checks on the progress of the White House Ballroom construction,” Martin wrote on X....

A biographer detailed when devoted aide Natalie Harp began to emerge in President Donald Trump's circle and tied her to one of his pet projects.

During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, author Michael Wolff said that he started hearing Harp's name during the 2024 campaign, and he credited her as one of the minds behind the East Wing teardown and the push for a White House ballroom.

"People within the White House say that Natalie was one of the people who argued for the ballroom and getting rid of the East Wing," Wolff said....

Trump went on a late-night Truth Social posting spree on Friday that pushed depictions of him as a military champion.

On Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump shared statements from his Cabinet officials and AI-generated images amid criticism about his treatment of the military and the ongoing conflict in Iran.

Some of the material was recycled, including an AI-generated image of Trump holding an American flag on top of a ship with an Iranian flag lying on the deck. "It's Our Oil Tanker Now!" the header of the post read. One post showed a graph touting that 18 Americans have died in the Iran military conflict compared to death counts in other wars....

President Donald Trump's plan to renovate a Washington, D.C. golf course has taken a hit even before the first tee shot, according to a new report on Tuesday.

Trump had announced construction would start on Sept. 1 at the municipal golf course at East Potomac Park, which is also known as Hains Point, but several issues have derailed the project so far, Mother Jones reported.

"Water from the Potomac River floods its sidewalks and drowned the city’s dreams of a modern swimming facility," according to Mother Jones. "Now, it threatens to wash out Trump’s golf fantasy and leave behind a disaster that will make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look like a minor embarrassment."...

President Donald Trump is embroiled in an arsenic-laced dirt fight — and opponents say his administration is fighting dirty, reports show.

The Trump administration is refusing to allow testing on soil it dumped on a public golf course in Washington, D.C. despite National Park Service findings the dirt contains arsenic and lead, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.

The East Potomac Golf Links, where the administration plans to build a major golf championships facility, has been topped with dirt from the East Wing demolition where Trump wants to build a ballroom, the Journal reported....

First Lady Melania Trump fought against Trump's overhaul of the White House and lost, according to commentators.

During an episode of the Daily Beast Podcast, host Joanna Coles and Hugh Dougherty, the executive editor of The Daily Beast, went over more revelations in the book Regime Change, an account of the Trump White House by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Last year, Trump paved over the Rose Garden. According to Dougherty, the book reveals that the First Lady's team relayed that she was "very unhappy" with the changes, and only secured a few compromises, like getting Trump to keep the rose bushes....