{"id":56094,"date":"2025-10-24T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:55:06","slug":"what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the White House East Wing and why has it been torn down in Trump\u2019s renovation plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is adding a $300m ballroom to the White House \u2013 but that plan has come at the cost of the historic East Wing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/24\/white-house-demolition-east-wing-trump-ballroom\"><strong>East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump\u2019s ballroom construction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was confirmed on Friday that the East Wing of the White House has now been completely destroyed, days after construction started on the planned $300m (\u00a3225m) ballroom that Donald Trump is adding to the historic building.<\/p>\n<p>The demolition marked a reversal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/23\/trump-white-house-ballroom-reaction\">Trump\u2019s earlier promise in July<\/a> that none of the White House\u2019s existing infrastructure would be torn down during construction of the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/25\/what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is adding a $300m ballroom to the White House \u2013 but that plan has come at the cost of the historic East Wing East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump\u2019s ballroom construction It was confirmed on Friday that the East Wing of the White House has now &#8230; <a title=\"What is the White House East Wing and why has it been torn down in Trump\u2019s renovation plans?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is the White House East Wing and why has it been torn down in Trump\u2019s renovation plans?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}