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East Wing destruction so very galling

I am having difficulty getting past the notion of Donald Trump deploying the bulldozers and backhoes to knock down the East Wing of the White House.

This heartless bastard doesn’t give a rat’s ruby red rear end about history or how the building where he will live for the next three years holds so much of our nation’s rich history. Dude wants to build a gold-adorned ballroom. Never f***ing mind that the East Wing is part of the people’s house, that’s my house, your house. The guy who has moved in there on a temporary basis has taken it upon himself to knock a good part of it down.

It is an outrageous violation of what we normally think of as decent, graceful and normal.

Presidents of the United States just don’t have carte blanche to destroy valuable pieces of public property. However, Trump doesn’t give a crap on what is normal.

It’s going to take me a while to get past this disgraceful act of arrogance.

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What if it were your house … ?

Let’s play a little game of “what if” … if you don’t mind. I’ll be brief, but the point I want to make is pretty damn big.

What if you rented your home to a tenant who promised to take good care of your property? He wouldn’t touch it. He would make no alerations to it and would return it to you in precisely the condition he found it when he took the keys to the place.

Then, suddenly — and with virtually zero advance warning — bulldozers and backhoes show up and start knocking down an adjoining structure. What if your tenant told you he wanted to build a room to make fishing flies. But … wait! That’s not the deal we entered into when I rented the place to you, is your response. That’s tough, he said … live with it.

So here we are. The man who is living as renter in the people’s house, the White House, has decided to knock down the historic East Wing. He wants to build an opulent ballroom. He wants to use that ballroom to entertain heads of state. He deems the State Dining Room, where presidents have welcomed visiting kings, queens, potentates and assorted leaders of various nations for many decades.

Donald Trump is making a mockery of the house that you and I own. Where I come from, I call it “de-facing public property.” Yes, I get that he’s a U.S. citizen, too, so he can claim ownership of the White House where he will live for the next three years. To my way of thinking, that does not give him license to destroy a couple of centuries of history by building a ballroom that likely will look like a sort of Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac.

I’m sure you’ll recall the jokes that went viral when Trump considering a run for the presidency. Some jokesters wondered aloud whether he would erect a huge “TRUMP” sign and hang it on the front of the White House. It got a huge laugh.

Today … it’s not so funny.

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East Wing crashing down!

I really have little to offer about Donald Trump’s decision to tear down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom. I am left mostly to shake my head in utter astonishment that this moron would do such a thing to a cherished piece of our national history.

Trump once promised to leave the White House structure alone were he to make significant change in it. That he broke that promise is no surprise, but it doesn’t lessen the ghastly sight of he wrecking crews knocking down the place where heads of state have met with presidents and where important events have occurred.

I am going to presume that Trump will glitter the ballroom up with the gold trimmings he already has placed in the Oval Office and throughout the West Wing. The guy sickens me to my core.

You know, of course, who is paying for this ballroom. You and I are. The taxpayers. We’re going to pony up about $300 million for a project that received zero public comment prior to the arrival of the wrecking crew. And, yes, even the legality of this work is being questioned.

Trump just makes me want to hurl.