“In 2009, President Obama added a basketball court,” Doocy mentioned, citing related minor renovations to the White Home, like Theodore Roosevelt’s building of the West Wing and Franklin Roosevelt’s addition of a swimming pool.
The doc additionally cites Obama’s basketball court docket and different tasks illustrated by Fox.
However the narrative pushed by Fox and the White Home is a whole exaggeration. Obama made minor modifications to an present tennis court docket so as to add a basketball hoop. The court docket was then used for varied occasions, together with video games with wounded navy veterans.
It was nothing like Trump’s large destruction of the East Wing.
Staff pave over the White Home’s Rose Backyard on July 25.
“They’re wrecking it,” Towson College political science professor emeritus Martha Joynt Kumar instructed the Washington Put up. “These are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.”
The nonprofit Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation despatched a letter to the Nationwide Park Service on Tuesday, lamenting the modifications and calling for a pause to Trump’s actions.
“While the National Trust acknowledges the utility of a larger meeting space at the White House, we are deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself—it is 55,000 square feet—and may also permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings,” the letter mentioned.
After all, there was by no means a letter like this despatched in opposition to Obama’s basketball hoop.
The East Wing destruction comes a number of months after Trump paved over the historic Rose Backyard, turning it right into a gathering spot for rich donors harking back to his Mar-a-Lago property.
Republicans have gone together with Trump’s radical modifications to the White Home, which could be very completely different from 2001, after they have been so mad for supposed destruction of White Home property by the Clinton workforce—a prank involving the elimination of some “W” keys from keyboards to mess with President George W. Bush—{that a} federal investigation was launched into the matter.
However now as White Home partitions crumble and fall, Republicans stay silent—as do their propaganda allies at Fox.
