The Trump administration can continue building a $400m White House ballroom at the site of the former East Wing, a US appeals court ruled on Friday.
The three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for Washington DC granted the administration a stay of an order days earlier that had aimed to halt most aboveground construction. That earlier order had resulted from a lawsuit filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which challenged whether Donald Trump had the authority to raze the East Wing and construct the ballroom without congressional approval.
The US district judge Richard Leon had initially halted construction of the ballroom in March – because of that lack of congressional approval – before an appeals court ordered him to reconsider the national security implications of the pause.
The Trump administration had argued that suspending construction of the new facility is “threatening grave national-security harms to the White House, the president and his family, and the president’s staff”.
i hope some future president campaigns on the promise to rip out every molecule of gold, every fixture installed by that orange piece of shit and put the whitehouse back they way it was.
It’ll never be the way it was but can be improved on always. I’d like a garden back in the garden though. Less gaudy appearances, something mildly relatable to the people but still a classy kind of flashy.
Melt all that gold down as a start.