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host of Scene After construction made clear his opinion on the “tacky, dirty and gaudy” renovation going on at the White House President Donald Trump’s new $250 million ballroom Started this week.
On Monday, a demolition team began partially demolishing it East Wing Despite Trump’s previous promises, to make room for expansion privately funded venue would be a separate building It won’t even touch the original historical landmark.
“That’s not your building. You don’t own that building!” Whoopi Goldberg Trump said in a stern message on Tuesday’s episode of ABC’s daytime talk show.
“It would be like if I went to Trump Tower and said, ‘I’m going to build a disco! They’ve wanted to own Trump Tower for hundreds of years!’ I mean, come on, you don’t own that building. That is the public house. You don’t own it!”
Goldberg’s co-hosts jump in to criticize the overhaul Jai Bihar Calling Trump “a wrecking ball guy” and criticizing the approach of going through a grand reconstruction while Americans are facing a unstable economy,
“At the same time, people are also losing their government jobs,” Behar said.
“To be building now and demolishing and having all this gold, sticky crap that he likes, is a very bad eyesore.”
Co-host Sara Haines said, “The ballroom is a symbol of excess and opulence, and we live in a time where those visions fly in the face of the reality of most people in this country.
“He won on improving the cost of living, but inflation is up three percent. 74 percent of Americans say they have seen home prices increase by at least $100. The unemployment rate is at a four-year high right now. People are struggling to eat, and this is a rich ballroom paid for by rich people so rich people can come and dance.”
According to the White House, the ballroom will be able to seat 650 people in the 90,000-square-foot space, a large increase from the East Room’s current 200-person capacity.
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Co-host Sunny Hostin Criticized the proposed design of the ballroom, which features golden chairs and chandeliers.
“People are losing their health care and tax breaks because of billionaires, who are probably some of the private donors to this dirty, gaudy, dirty ballroom,” Hostin said.
“It’s sticky! Look! It looks like Mar-a-Lago, which is sticky.”
Alyssa Farrah GriffinThe co-host and former Trump aide said presidents “technically have the authority” to replace the White House, but they typically have to get renovations approved by the Presidential Planning Commission.
He admitted, “I fear it might look more like a Florida country club than the White House as we know it.”