The Washington Post ran a piece that you probably would never expect them to write, much less to be written by the WaPo's editorial board: a defense of President Donald Trump's ballroom.
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD: In defense of the White House ballroom https://t.co/lwavXa8eiD
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The Democrats have been losing their minds publicly over it. But the WaPo revealed the reality.
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.
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Whoops. But of course they are, because having the space is common sense, and sending foreign dignitaries out to use the porta-potties is embarrassing. Not to mention how much we were paying to keep putting up temporary tents and everything that goes along with that for events.
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.
It's Trump, being Trump, seeing a need, and trying to fix it and build, providing a space we can use in perpetuity that costs the taxpayers nothing. Only the Democrats could flip out over something that makes so much sense. If they manage to get back into the White House, would they turn down the use of this space? Of course not. They'll act like all their tantrums never happened.
The WaPo spent some time on how all the building rules tend to inhibit getting things done.
After a fence jumper got inside the White House in 2014, it was obvious that better perimeter fencing needed to be installed. But doing so involved five public meetings of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) over two years, as members took pains to ensure the fencing complied with environmental rules. Construction didn’t begin until July 2019.
Or consider the modest Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial near the National Air and Space Museum. Congress authorized its creation in 1999. Architect Frank Gehry was selected in 2009. The NCPC rejected Gehry’s initial design proposal in 2014 before approving a revised plan the next year. The Commission of Fine Arts gave its approval in 2017. The memorial wasn’t opened until late 2020. By contrast, Eisenhower planned and executed D-Day in about six months.
That is nuts and is a great example of how excess government tends to calcify things. So not only is the WaPo demolishing the Democratic narrative on the ballroom, but they're sounding like Republicans in bemoaning the heavy-handed government actions that prevent things from getting done.
I should note that Amazon was one of the donors to the ballroom, and Jeff Bezos owns both the Washington Post and Amazon. I don't know if that helped free them to report facts, but they did report facts:
Trump joins a long list of presidents who have left their imprint on the White House. Theodore Roosevelt replaced greenhouses to construct the West Wing. William Howard Taft constructed the first Oval Office in 1909. Richard M. Nixon converted a swimming pool into the press briefing room in 1970. The modern East Wing wasn’t even built until World War II to cover up an underground bunker. Harry S. Truman gutted the White House interior and added the balcony that bears his name. Purists decried it. Now it’s a hallmark.
The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification. In that way, Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.
You know that Democrats are going to lose it over that. But if they do, they show once again how ridden with Trump Derangement Syndrome they are, and how divorced from common sense.
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