For Trump, the East Wing had to be demolished to make way for a 90,000-square foot ballroom to host foreign dignitaries and 999 guests. It’s a massive $350 million project he said will be paid for by private donors.

A real-life Indiana Jones likened Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” White House destruction to the cultural vandalism once committed by ISIS. Trump began tearing into the East Wing this week to clear space for his gaudy $300 million,

A new White House “Major Events Timeline” contains digs at former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Under a nearly-60-year-old law, the White House and several other notable buildings are exempt from a key historic preservation rule - though one expert told the BBC that presidents typically follow it anyway. Trump's renovation appears to be the biggest in decades, but the president of the US does have the power to make those changes.