If the news footage of the White House’s East Wing being demolished looks oddly familiar, there’s a good reason. It’s because over the last 45 years, Hollywood has been blowing up 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in every way imaginable, from terrorist rocket attacks to alien plasma rays to once even crushing it with a tsunami-hurled aircraft carrier. In fact, the only disaster that’s been too outrageous for even Roland Emmerich to imagine is the one currently unfolding in real time — Donald Trump’s ballroom.

Here are the 10 most spectacular onscreen demolitions of the White House.

Superman II (1980) Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures/Photofest

Before Roland Emmerich made a career of flattening it, Richard Lester’s sequel gave the White House its first proper thrashing. General Zod and h

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