President Trump’s remodel of the White House East Wing has riled the Left to new heights of performative outrage in the week since demolition began. And while there have been few signs of it damping down, some cracks in the monolithic monomania are showing.

The insane accusations and garment rending came right on the heels of the disclosure that crews had started the remodel. To listen to portside nutburgers from MSNBC to Congressional critters, one would think Trump dropped a small nuke on the White House itself.

It’s feels almost the same as when I saw the Pentagon damage on 9/11. pic.twitter.com/cgZ3LWOhnk

— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) October 24, 2025

Oh my. I’m sure the families of the 184 murdered at the Pentagon on 9/11 would like a word with Tara.

And while Left whingeing continues, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-mented CA) — Mr. Fang-Banger, himself — has appointed himself the head of the DNC and decided on what will be the litmus test for any 2028 Democrat Presidential candidate.

The funniest thing about this is not that Swalwell POSTED it, but that he thought it was so brilliant that he REPOSTED it. pic.twitter.com/M26TEDlO9x

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) October 26, 2025

Oh my. Indulged toddlers who don’t get their way may look for things to break or smear their own poo on the walls and here is Brat Eric demanding a long-wished for addition to the White House be destroyed by any incoming Democrat President. On.Day.One.

Yeah, Eric. That’s reasonable.

However, some sanity prevails. In a “let’s check the weather in Hell” moment, the Editorial Board of the Washington Post puts out an opinion squarely in favor of the White House Ballroom.

In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.

The State Dining Room seats 140. The East Room seats about 200. Trump says the ballroom at the center of his 90,000-square-foot addition will accommodate 999 guests. The next Democratic president will be happy to have this.

Yes, that’s WaPo. Not a guest writer for WaPo but the paper as an institution. The piece goes into how Democrat-dominated bureaucracies across the country at all levels have become so ossified and driven by layers of red-tape, it can take years for even a lowly homeowner to build a deck. WaPo points out two examples of this glacial farce — that it took five years to even begin to replace the fence around the White House after someone jumped it in 2014. And it took 21 years, from authorization to completion, for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

By contrast, Eisenhower planned and executed D-Day in about six months.

Gavin Newsom has certainly made noises that the renovation of the East Wing is just like ripping up the Constitution. The perpetual Presidential candidate has had nothing to say about how his promises to expediate rebuilding of the Pacific Palisade and Eaton areas have worked out. Oh look, in the Palisades alone, almost 6,000 buildings lost, only 22 permits have been issued! In ten months.

As the WaPo points out, the White House is exempt from much of the red-tape of other Federal buildings and that so-called “review” processes would result in this ballroom not being built via a death by thousands of papercuts.

Historically, 22 out of 46 Presidents have changed the White House in significant ways. Teddy Roosevelt, who put up the West Wing as temporary office space, had planned a grand renovation of the grounds that dwarf anything Trump is doing.

So while everyone’s talking about the “historical significance” of the East Wing just know… this ballroom idea has actually been part of the plan for over 120 years. We just never got around to building it. So, while Donald Trump might end up being the one to finally see it… pic.twitter.com/vCqQIKLVbk

— Mike Netter (@nettermike) October 26, 2025

A multipurpose event space … one with working bathrooms and in a secure location … for State affairs has been something wished for over many decades. It takes a man with a business background to get it done. WaPo’s last word says it all:

Strong leaders reject calcification. In that way, Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.

Hear, hear.

Would someone please locate Swalwell’s binky and put him in the “time out” corner to chill? He needs it.

featured image courtesy Mike Netter on X, public domain