Did you see how President Donald Trump tore down the White House and replaced it with that restaurant in Trump Tower that serves taco bowls? Tragedy. It’s also a shame how he then killed everyone involved in the destruction so they wouldn’t be able to come back later and loot all the gold at the site, like the Pharaoh he is.
That’s actually the joke of it all: just how few people outraged by the construction at the White House are aware of what is actually happening. It’s mostly their fault, as they trust left-wing morons and talking heads who make their living turning nothing into mountains. Someone I went to high school with texted me out of the blue with, “You good with demolishing the White House? I can’t believe he did that. How disgusting.”
No, “Hi, how you doing? What do you think about…” just a full-throated text scream. I assume Nicolle Wallace or some leftist on MSNBC had done a special show about how the White House was being destroyed or something, because these thoughts don’t occur to rational thinking people out of the blue.
Hilariously, I’d taken this person on a tour of the West Wing in the past, so I assumed they’d know that the “wings,” both East and West, are not a part of the actual White House itself, only connected by hallways. They are, of course, additions that came much later: the West for practical office purposes, and the East for cover for a bomb shelter. The East Wing is barely used, houses the First Lady’s office, and a few rooms that look like museum rooms. It’s how the public enters for events and White House tours, and that’s about it. It does not have a storied history or any real history to speak of.
Now it’s being replaced with a grand ballroom because the White House does not have one, which means state dinners happen in a tent on the lawn. Imagine the world’s superpower having to have events in a tent. Not anymore.
This isn’t controversial, at least to people who aren’t hacks or prone to histrionics. Even the “right-wing rag” The Washington Post has editorialized in favor of what President Trump is building, while still managing to take swipes at how he’s doing it.
Yet, there are the holdouts – people either too stupid to know better or too partisan to care – who will not let the facts stand in the way of a good temper tantrum.
I don’t know which category Meet the Press host Kristen Welker falls into, but on the subject of the ballroom, Welker introduced the concept as a “fierce backlash over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. The stunning images, part of the biggest changes to the White House in nearly a century to make way for President Trump’s new ballroom, funded by private donors, including Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.”
Why would the left-wing Comcast donate to the destruction of history? Same reason everyone is doing it: because it’s not.
She went on to say, “The East Wing of the White House was demolished this week to make way for President Trump's plans for a ballroom. As you know, it surprised a lot of people, given that President Trump said this back in July.”
Welker then played Trump, saying, “It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be – it will be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite, it's my favorite place. I love it.”
Anyone not suffering Trump Derangement Syndrome or simply trying to stoke outrage would know the difference between the White House itself, which Trump was referring to, and the East Wing in the complex of structures on the White House grounds.
Welker’s job should be to explain that to her audience, instead, she told them, “the question is about his revealing to the American public and saying he wouldn't have to actually tear down the building. And now that's what's happening.”
No, it is not what’s happening.
Of course, Welker had no pro-Trump conservative on her “panel of experts,” because that would be annoying to have someone not agree with the progressive bovine post-digested food that passes for “news” on the show; it’s just not that type of show anymore.
But she should get the basics right, right? I mean, she did used to work in the building and must know that the East Wing is NOT the White House, right?
Maybe she doesn’t, maybe she’s the oblivious. I’m not surprised by it from someone I went to school with, but the host of Meet the Press, the former White House Correspondent for NBC News? That’s a little like Ronald McDonald not knowing how to make fries.
The world would be better if these people would simply tell the truth, but truth doesn’t spike ratings or get bonus checks for ratings bumps, outrage does. What does it matter if they infect people with stupid if you get paid? It shouldn’t be the case, and doesn’t have to be, but as long as audiences accept verbal clickbait from the hosts, why wouldn’t the host simply continue to serve it up? Everything else seems dangerously close to work.