“It’s hard to imagine a more fitting image” of Donald Trump’s second term, said Matt Ford in The New Republic , than last week’s photographs of bulldozers demolishing the East Wing of the White House. They are a perfect symbol of the administration’s destructive agenda. A public building that forms part of a national historical site has been razed to make way for a “gaudy” 90,000-square-foot ballroom where Trump can “hang out with his rich friends”.

Back in July, the president assured the public that the ballroom wouldn’t interfere with the current White House structure, said Steve Benen on MSNBC . “It’ll be near it but not touching it – and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” he declared. Now he dismisses the East Wing, saying it was “never t

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