The New York Times has a nausea-inducing deep dive into Marie Antoinette Trump’s plans for a Versailles-like ballroom to replace the East Wing of the White House, which he destroyed.
Actually, Versailles-like wasn’t enough for Trump’s self-aggrandizing dreams. As The Times tells it, Trump’s architect, James McCrery, originally designed the ballroom to have “high ceilings and arched windows reminiscent of Versailles’s Hall of Mirrors. It would have the latest security features, including bulletproof glass. Gold furniture, known to please the president, was added to the renderings.”
But that wasn’t enough for President Piggy. Even as he “assured the public in July that the ballroom would not touch the existing structure, he already had approved plans to demolish the East Wing to make way for something that could hold several thousand people, according to three people familiar with the timeline,” The Times reported. He now plans a ballroom much larger than the West Wing and the Executive Mansion, big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration.
Just like Trump thinks he’s exempt from the U.S. Constitution and American laws, he has reportedly “told people working on the ballroom that they did not need to follow permitting, zoning or code requirements.”
