President Donald Trump said he didn’t need to raze the White House’s East Wing to build his tacky new ballroom—yet he did it anyway.

Trump has faced widespread condemnation for demolishing the historic East Wing of the presidential mansion without proper permits, oversight, or public buy-in.

During an interview with Fox News on Monday night, he finally admitted he doesn’t care about any of that.

The president, 79, told host Laura Ingraham that he knocked down the East Wing because it “looked like hell.”

“It was a poor, sad sight, and I could’ve built the ballroom around it,” he added.

Trump’s comments came during a series of feisty exchanges with Ingraham, 62. The Fox News host had asked him about former first lady Michelle Obama’s criticism of the East Wing’s destruction.

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