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Bulwark Takes

Trump’s Heartbreaking White House Makeover

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

With Donald Trump unceremoniously demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build his gigantic ballroom, Sam Stein and Sonny Bunch discuss cinema’s most iconic White House destruction scenes as the reality of the demolition images unfortunately imitate art.

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0:00.0

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0:01.5

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0:39.1

I know you love architecture.

0:41.0

Are you among the only people who's comfortable with the destruction of the East Wing,

0:45.4

or do you find it repulsive, too?

0:47.3

I've, you know, I spent a lot of time watching HGTV.

0:50.1

The big news this week in the movie world is WB and Discovery splitting off.

0:54.8

If I have to resubscribe to Discovery to get my HGTV, it's going to be bad.

0:59.8

No, I don't watch any of that.

1:01.5

The thing that's really grotesque about this is all of a sudden you just have pictures of like the destroyed White House.

1:09.4

Just the facade just torn down.

1:10.7

Like my six-year-old son would be very excited by this because there's a big vehicle. sudden you just have pictures of like the destroyed white house just the facade just torn down like my

1:11.3

six year old son would be very excited by this because there's a big vehicle out there doing it

1:16.2

he likes big trucks yeah likes big trucks just like trump him and him and my six year old right on the

1:21.2

same but it just like all the sudden it just torn down white house and it really is jarring because

1:26.2

i think we accept a lot of the changes that

1:30.9

have happened to the White House as just like, that's the normal course of new president moves in

1:35.2

and they decorated how they want. Obama did this, W did this, the Clintons did this, like there's

1:39.5

a certain level of that that you accept. You even accept the terrible redecoration of the Rose Garden, the kind of

1:45.8

Aubon Pan, the umbrellas.

1:48.5

Concrete yellow umbrella everywhere.

1:51.8

I tell you what, man.

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