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Showing posts with label demolition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demolition. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if $250m renovation not done
The warning came as Donald Trump leaves a trail of destruction in Washington, demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a $600m ballroom and ordering a renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool that resulted in algae blooms and a peeling liner...
Saturday, December 13, 2025
National preservation group sues to halt East Wing ballroom construction - POLITICO
A preservationist group is suing President Donald Trump for his construction of the East Wing ballroom, arguing in a lawsuit filed Friday that the wing's demolition did not undergo appropriate reviews and demanding the rebuilding cease immediately...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-east-wing-ballroom-lawsuit-00689260
Thursday, October 23, 2025
The White House Is Being Demolished | The GOP's "Nazi Streak" Continues ...
President Trump is literally tearing down the White House to build his fantasy ballroom, another Republican has been exposed for sending racist text messages and praising Nazis, and police in Alabama forcibly detained a 61 year-old woman who wore an inflatable penis costume to the "No Kings" rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_1eTP_RDU
No plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom despite demolition being under way | Donald Trump | The Guardian
"We are deeply concerned that the massing height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself – it is 55,000 sq ft – and may also permanently disrupt carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings," the group said in the letter…
Critics have pointed out that Trump over the summer said new construction would not affect the existing structure.
"It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it, but not touching it, and [it] pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of," Trump said…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/white-house-trump-new-ballroom-demolition
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Israel Set to Raze Palestinian Village for Settlement Construction | Democracy Now!
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli bulldozers have entered the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar ahead of its planned demolition. In September, Israel’s Supreme Court approved a plan to raze the village to make way for an expansion of two nearby Jewish-only settlements. The plan will force the relocation of the village’s 180 residents to an area next to a landfill. On Monday, Israeli forces arrested four villagers and injured seven as they protested the arrival of demolition teams. ....
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