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The White House on Tuesday dismissed backlash over the first images of President Donald Trump's renovation of the East Wing, where construction began this week on a lavish, privately funded White House state ballroom.

"In the latest instance of manufactured outrage, unhinged leftists and their Fake News allies are clutching their pearls over President Donald J. Trump's visionary addition of a grand, privately funded ballroom to the White House — a bold, necessary addition that echoes the storied history of improvements and renovations from commanders-in-chief to keep the executive residence as a beacon of American excellence," the White House said in a statement.

A photo went viral Monday showing work crews demolishing portions of the East Wing's facade to make way for the

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