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East Wing

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Sep 11, 2026

Ezra KleinHOST
39:22
He wants to build a ballroom.
Ezra KleinHOST
39:24
He just bulldozes East Wing.
Ezra KleinHOST
39:26
And on the other hand-- And that's true.
Ezra KleinHOST
39:29
I mean, he is eviscerating procedure.
Jamie RaskinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
26:54
We don't have time to remotely scratch the surface, but going to war without a declaration of war, for example, continually defying Congress in terms of our appropriation of money, stealing our spending power from us.
Jamie RaskinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:09
I mean, I would say even just bulldozing the East Wing of the White House.
Jamie RaskinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:12
If you can bulldoze the East Wing, you can bulldoze the West Wing.
Jamie RaskinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:15
He believes that he is a king.
Roger StoneHOST
27:18
There it is.
Mike CarlsonHOST
76:40
Build a big dog house
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
76:41
in the East Wing.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
76:44
Bunch of dog holes in the side.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
76:45
Let's do it.
John DondertmanGUEST
19:39
You know, I built the West Wing.
John DondertmanGUEST
19:40
I built part of the East Wing.
John DondertmanGUEST
19:44
And then, so that was, and it was a lot of other stuff going on too.
John DondertmanGUEST
19:48
I built a lot of satellite sets and some motel rooms.
Sarah LongwellGUEST
13:32
And it really is...
Sarah LongwellGUEST
13:32
Listen, it's not that, um, the Reflecting Pool or the East Wing, that doesn't have a personal con- con- uh, like consequences for voters, but it is a contrast for voters about what Trump is paying attention to.
Kara SwisherHOST
13:46
Right.
Sarah LongwellGUEST
13:46
Voters will let him do all the weird stuff he wants as long as the economy is working, like his voters, but the second that he is focused on the East Wing-
Kara SwisherHOST
13:55
Yeah
Sarah LongwellGUEST
13:55
...
Andrew WeissmannGUEST
45:55
And the point is to be transgressive.
Andrew WeissmannGUEST
45:58
It is to tear down the East Wing without legal authority.
Andrew WeissmannGUEST
46:02
But is there something in the fact that he doesn't actually just say, yeah, the call with Ukraine, I was extorting them.
Andrew WeissmannGUEST
46:12
Or, yeah, when I did that, that's a lie.
Andrew BrancaHOST
13:35
They're essentially representing the Trump side of the argument that the ballroom should be allowed to proceed.
Andrew BrancaHOST
13:42
In October 2025, the federal government started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House.
Andrew BrancaHOST
13:49
The first phase involved the demolition of the existing East Wing, completed in December 2025, the demolition.
Andrew BrancaHOST
13:56
The next phase, currently ongoing, involves the construction of a new East Wing, including a below-ground military installation and an above-ground ballroom.
Andrew BrancaHOST
14:08
The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States filed a lawsuit in federal district court, unelected black robe, tyrannical, inferior, federal district court, challenging various aspects of the project.
Andrew BrancaHOST
14:21
As part of its suit, the trust filed a motion seeking a preliminary injunction.
Andrew BrancaHOST
14:27
The injunction the trust sought focused not on the already completed demolition.
Andrew BrancaHOST
14:31
Well, how could you enjoin something that's already completed? But on halting the ongoing construction of a new East Wing.
Patrick BoyleHOST
11:06
The DOJ is threatening Powell with a criminal indictment over a 35% increase in the Fed's decade-long headquarters renovation, a project involving the removal of toxic asbestos and lead from 1930s-era buildings.
Patrick BoyleHOST
11:21
Yet at the very same time, The White House's own project to replace the East Wing with a new ballroom has seen its estimated costs double from $200 million to $400 million in just six months.
Patrick BoyleHOST
11:35
By bypassing standard oversight to launch a criminal grand jury investigation while ignoring its own runaway costs, the administration has made one thing clear.
Patrick BoyleHOST
11:46
This isn't about fiscal responsibility.
Katherine JohnsonHOST
11:31
You need a real injury.
Katherine JohnsonHOST
11:33
Um, one example we've talked about is that, uh, East Wing ballroom, the White House ballroom thing.
Katherine JohnsonHOST
11:38
Um, is it sufficient injury that you're offended by how the ballroom looks if you just walk your dog by it? Um, we also talked about this-
Ilan WurmanHOST
11:45
And, and we will talk about the ballroom soon, because according to Chief Justice Roberts and the liberals, yes, it is enough to be offended by how it looks-
Jill Wine-BanksGUEST
50:12
Don't ask permission.
Jill Wine-BanksGUEST
50:13
And he tore down the East Wing, and I thought that would be impossible.
Jill Wine-BanksGUEST
50:17
But once it's gone, it's gone.
Jill Wine-BanksGUEST
50:20
He's starting construction, although he's saying that he's looking for artifacts there, which would be looking, you know, I don't know what he thinks would be there.

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