Throughout Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the backlash from Democrats in opposition to President Donald Trump’s efforts to renovate the White Home to incorporate a ballroom.
Leavitt deemed the pushback “pretend outrage.”
“Alright, Karoline, are the Democrats jealous that Trump is constructing this Huge, Lovely Ballroom?” host Jesse Watters requested.
“It definitely seems that manner, Jesse and I imagine there’s plenty of pretend outrage proper now, as a result of practically each single president who has lived on this stunning White Home behind me has made modernizations and renovations of their very own,” Leavitt replied. “And actually, presidents for many years within the trendy time have quipped about how they want they’d a bigger occasion house right here at The White Home that may maintain tons of extra individuals than the present East Room and State Eating Rooms can. In reality, President Obama notably complained that in his tenure, he needed to maintain a State Go to on the South Garden and get a really costly tent. In case you speak to journalists who’ve lined the White Home for many years, as I do right here each single day, they may also inform you that administration after administration have publicly and privately spoken in regards to the want for a bigger occasion house.”
She added, “So whereas many presidents have privately dreamt about this, it’s President Trump who is definitely doing one thing about it, and he’s the builder-in-chief. Largely, he was re-elected again to this Individuals’s Home as a result of he’s good at constructing issues. He has completed it his total life, his total profession, and building is a course of. On the finish, the East Wing, which is a completely separate construction from the Government Mansion you see behind me, might be extra trendy and exquisite than ever. After which on high of that, the White Home goes to have a Huge, Lovely Ballroom for generations of Individuals to come back. And the perfect a part of all of it, it’s not a dime of the taxpayers’ cash. The President has labored arduous to privately fund this whole undertaking from begin to end.”
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