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The View: Behind the Table

Ana Navarro on Trump's East Wing Demolition: 'He destroyed it like it was garbage'

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Navarro joins executive producer Brian Teta to discuss President Trump's plan to rebuild the entire East Wing of the White House. Then, she weighs in on a report that a significant portion of ICE recruits aren't meeting fitness requirements and her experiences attending the Al Smith Dinner and judging the NYCWFF Burger Bash! Have a question or want advice from Brian or a co-host? Leave us a message here: https://woobox.com/kaoojs. Messages may be used on a future podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It is Thursday.

0:31.7

We are here with Anna Navarro at Behind the Table.

0:34.1

She's got a laptop.

0:35.0

I've got my phone.

0:35.6

It's like dinner with my family.

0:36.9

This is very exciting.

0:44.2

Let's jump right into politics. There's been a lot of talk on the show about demolition at the White

0:50.2

House. This is to make way for President Trump's new ballroom. And after originally saying

0:55.6

the entire, the current White House structure wouldn't be affected, it seems now that the entire

1:00.8

East Wing is going to be demolished as soon as this weekend. I know you've been to the East Wing

1:05.4

many times. As we remember me talking about it, I got to go to the Christmas party last year.

1:10.1

Thank God you finally got invited the last year before the East Wing disappeared. I was looking at pictures last night. What do you make of the optics of this during the government shutdown or just overall? We were saying on the show today, imagine if Barack Obama had demolished the wing of the White House, what the outcry would be. I mean, well, there's so many aspects to this. First, I'm heartbroken. I'm just so sad. You know, it's such a historic, beautiful place. And, you know, a lot of people who come and visit the White House, foreigners who come and visit the White House are always struck by the fact that we don't have a palace. We don't, you know,

1:45.5

have a castle. We don't have an emperor's house. We have the White House. And what's significant

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