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   From: dumb@slut.nut   
      
   The Left's latest narrative about President Trump's White House   
   renovations shows how desperate they are for anything — anything — to   
   distract from their disastrous policies and their culpability in the   
   ongoing Schumer Shutdown.   
      
   In an attempt to appeal to the voting public, they keep telling us the   
   White House is 'The People's House' and we should somehow be offended that   
   President Trump is using private funds to build a ballroom that future   
   administrations will use.   
      
   Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is the latest to jump on that   
   bandwagon.   
      
      
   She writes:   
      
   President Donald Trump has the right – and clearly has raised the private   
   funds – to pave over the Rose Garden (and denude it of roses) as well as   
   turn the East Wing into a ballroom.   
      
   Still, with less than a year until we celebrate our country’s 250th   
   anniversary, it is unsettling that such substantial alterations to the   
   225-year-old People’s House are being undertaken without a historic-   
   preservation review and seemingly without the involvement of any   
   historians, and I would love to be proven wrong here.   
      
   ...   
      
   A disregard for history is a defining trait of President Trump’s second   
   administration. Reports indicate he has directed the Smithsonian   
   Institution and the National Park Service to censor exhibits and erase   
   mentions of slavery and the treatment of Native Americans. Federal   
   websites have deleted references to women’s rights and LGBTQ+ history. In   
   one especially embarrassing episode, Trump's Department of War, formally   
   known as the Department of Defense, even scrubbed its site of all mentions   
   of the Enola Gay - the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima -   
   because an automated effort to remove the word “gay” caught it in the   
   process.   
      
   Perhaps it's gauche to remind Chelsea what her parents did both during and   
   after their time in "The People's House." Her parents were forced to   
   return tens of thousands of dollars in "household goods" they took from   
   the White House when they left office in 2001.   
      
   Clinton staffers did more than $10,000 in damage to the White House on   
   their way out the door, including the petty move of removing the "W" from   
   keyboards in an effort to spite incoming president George W. Bush.   
      
   Then, of course, there are Bill Clinton's ... extracurricular ...   
   activities in the Oval Office.   
      
   Meanwhile, the public has known about the renovations since the summer,   
   and no one bothered to object before now. How convenient, given the fact   
   that the Democrats are desperate for anything to deflect from the Schumer   
   Shutdown.   
      
   It'd be amusing to watch this narrative ripple across the Left side of   
   social media if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hadn't also   
   threatened criminal investigations into the ballroom donors.   
      
   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/26/chelsea-clinton-east-   
   wing-n2665428   
      
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