{"id":24262,"date":"2025-11-20T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=24262"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:13:17","slug":"trump-orders-partial-demolition-of-white-house-for-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=24262","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders Partial Demolition of White House for Ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington D.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Controversially, President Donald Trump has initiated the demolition of a portion of the White House to construct a new ballroom and events space. The project, which began Monday, has sparked widespread debate across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump announced the commencement of the project on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating, &#8220;I am thrilled to announce that work has begun on the White House to build a new, large, and magnificent ballroom!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Images circulating online show heavy machinery demolishing sections of the East Wing of the presidential residence. The planned ballroom is reportedly slated to cover over 8,000 square meters, with a capacity to accommodate up to 1,000 people. The estimated cost of the project is $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Trump, the new ballroom will serve as a venue for state dinners honoring foreign heads of state, as well as other large-scale events. Mock-ups of the project reveal a vast, windowed structure that will occupy the current location of the East Wing, traditionally housing the First Lady&#8217;s offices.<\/p>\n<p>The President has emphasized that the construction of the ballroom will be entirely funded through donations from what he described as &#8220;generous patriotic Americans and wonderful companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has served as the official residence and workplace of U.S. Presidents since 1800, with John Adams being the first president to reside there.<\/p>\n<p><em>This development has raised questions regarding the preservation of historical landmarks and the allocation of resources during President Trump&#8217;s current term.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. \u2013 Controversially, President Donald Trump has initiated the demolition of a portion of the White House to construct a new ballroom and events space. The project, which began Monday, has sparked widespread debate across the nation.President Trump announced t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}