The East Wing was a portion of the White House complex in Washington, D.C. that was built in 1902, significantly expanded in 1942, and demolished in 2025.

Demolition of the East Wing began on October 20,[19] without review by the National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees federal construction.[20][21] On October 21, with unannounced demolition already underway, the National Trust for Historic Preservation objected that a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) ballroom would “overwhelm” the 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) White House and “permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings.”[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wing

  • kingofras@lemmy.world
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    Rare to have the house of a nations leader be a proportional representation of the rot of the society it represents and the mental faculties of its “leader”.

    Imagine he dies tomorrow, triggering a revolution to get rid of the Epstein Class, and then the newly elected president (without a billionaire rigging it) decides to leave the site like that as a historic monument to the dangers of deranged despots.

    I’m joking. America is finished as a nation after this much murder.

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    tbh i really hope that ballroom ends up looking hideous

    the only good thing coming out of the trump presidency is the usa humiliating itself like never before. the ufc 250 thing has been hilarious to watch from afar tbh

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    We don’t live in a natural nation. This isn’t a point reached by organic natural democracy.

    Just participating in any of this makes you and me the bad guys. Participating because we fear for security or safety etc makes us cowards. We are the problem. We are basically domesticated cattle providing for psychopaths.

    Even the paths that seem to be offered for “fighting the power” are just lifestyles psychologically masterly crafted marketed gimmicks that are used by the psychopaths that lust ownership and control over the path of humanity.

    The shits been happening before 1940s. Shits probably been happening before america was even created.

    America really is an experiment and we are the rats.