Donald Trump has reduced the White House’s historic East Wing to nothing but mangled metal and rubble.
New photos from the scene capture the violent ferocity with which the president demolished the century-old building to carve space for his gigantic $300 million ballroom.
No piece of the original structure remains standing, even though Trump insisted in July that the ballroom would be “near” the East Wing, but “not touching it,” and that construction would not “interfere with the current building.”
Photographer Anna Moneymaker on Monday captured an excavator clearing gnarled steel skeletons from where the East Wing, which was originally built in 1902 and housed the Office of the First Lady, once stood.
Trump is apparently trucking the dirt from the demolition to create mounds at a p

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