Trump Jr. defends father's White Home ballroom plan amid criticism

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Donald Trump Jr. claims Democrats have "misplaced the plot" over his father’s plan to tear down a part of the White House to make method for a brand new ballroom.

Democrats have accused President Donald Trump of destroying a part of the White Home’s historical past. The East Wing was constructed beneath President Franklin D. Roosevelt a long time in the past. However the Trump administration has argued the president is following within the footsteps of predecessors by bettering the property.

"They don't have anything else to speak about anymore. They've misplaced the plot. They've stopped making any sort of sense," Trump Jr. stated Thursday on "Fox & Friends."

Photographs displaying demolition work on a part of the East Wing sparked an uproar on-line, prompting a response from the White Home staff.

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Work continues on the demolition of part of the East Wing of the White Home, Tuesday, Oct. 21 in Washington, D.C., earlier than development of a brand new ballroom. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)

"Unhinged leftists and their Faux Information allies are clutching their pearls over President Donald J. Trump’s visionary addition of a grand, privately funded ballroom," they wrote in a statement , calling the challenge a "daring, needed addition."

White Home officers additionally famous that a number of presidents made main adjustments throughout their phrases, together with President Theodore Roosevelt’s addition of the West Wing, President Barack Obama ’s basketball court docket and President Invoice Clinton’s restoration of the Government Mansion.

Trump Jr. emphasised that his father’s years of expertise in development and actual property make him well-suited for such an enterprise.

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President Donald Trump gestures whereas answering questions from reporters throughout a tour of the West Wing roof on the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 5. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)

"The nice irony of my father truly bettering the White Home, a development man, a man that’s identified for constructing luxurious, is definitely bettering the White Home with personal funding, his personal and different donors," Trump Jr. stated.

"It’s costing the taxpayer nothing. It’s making the White Home extra usable."

He added that whereas the White Home is a gorgeous constructing, the Trump household has typically discovered it "small" and unable to accommodate bigger state dinners or occasions.

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Critics have raised ethics issues in regards to the greater than $200 million in private funds getting used and the businesses contributing to the challenge.

A McCrery Architects rendering supplied by the White Home of the outside of the brand new ballroom. (White Home)

Sen. Richard Blumenthal , D-Conn., questioned what leverage contributors may need over Trump if they're donating to the renovation.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton additionally criticized the transfer, writing on X Tuesday: "It’s not his home. It’s your home. And he’s destroying it."

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Trump Jr. known as Clinton’s remarks "the best irony."

" The Democrats freaking out about it's completely insane," he stated.

"Hillary Clinton, who, along with her husband, actually needed to return furnishings and silverware that they stole from the White Home. That was truly the property of the individuals," stated Trump Jr.

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The Clintons have been criticized for taking thousands of dollars’ worth of furniture and presents after they left the White Home in 2001. They finally returned the disputed objects, claiming they believed they have been private presents, relatively than presents for the White Home itself.