The East Wing of the White House — which held the offices of presidential first ladies and provided an symmetrical architectural counterbalance to the famed West Wing for 83 years — is now no more than rubble and memory.
President Donald Trump wrecked the two-story, 12,000-square-foot White House wing in three days to make room for a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom that he said will be bankrolled by his deep-pocketed funders.
Witnessing a large chunk of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. — arguably the world’s most famous building and National Historic Landmark — being hastily ripped down like common warehouse is an outrage. So is knowing the East Wing is being sacrificed for a giant, gaudy ballroom addition that will visually and physically outwrestle the main White House and its historic

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