‘He lied’: Fury grows over Trump’s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom

>> IN STARTS RIGHT NOW. GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK. I’M CHRIS HAYES. >> DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO BE A KING. >> IT’S THE BEST. >> EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING HE’S BEEN DOING JUST IN RECENT DAYS. JUST LOOK AT WHAT HE’S DOING RIGHT NOW TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THAT IS, OF COURSE. >> THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE. >> IT’S OUR. >> HOUSE AS AMERICANS, AS CITIZENS THERE. >> IT IS. >> THE RESIDENCE OF. >> EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE JOHN ADAMS IN 1800. AND THAT IS MORE DESTRUCTION. >> THE WHITE HOUSE HAS SEEN. >> SINCE THE TROOPS FOR THE BRITISH CROWN BURNED IT DOWN. THE WAR OF 1812. TRUMP WANTS THE WHITE HOUSE TO BE A. KINGLY PALACE. AND SO HE. >> IS DOING HIS. >> OWN RENOVATION. HE’S RIPPING UP THE EAST WING TO BUILD A GRAND, GILDED BALLROOM UNILATERALLY. >> NO ONE IN. >> CONGRESS WAS ASKED TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THIS. >> IN FACT. >> WHEN I SAW THE PLANS. >> ANNOUNCED, I ASSUMED THEY’D SMUGGLED IT INTO THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. >> BECAUSE OF COURSE, THEY. >> COULD HAVE DONE THAT. THEY COULD HAVE GOTTEN. >> CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION. BUT NO, NO ONE EVEN GOT TO SAY. >> WE ARE GOING TO MAKE AND BUILD A BALLROOM, WHICH THEY’VE WANTED FOR PROBABLY A HUNDRED YEARS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. AND IT WILL BE A WORLD CLASS, BEAUTIFUL BALLROOM. >> FOR 150 YEARS. >> PRESIDENTS. >> ADMINISTRATIONS AND WHITE HOUSE STAFF HAVE LONGED FOR A LARGE EVENT SPACE ON THE WHITE. >> HOUSE. >> COMPLEX THAT CAN HOLD SUBSTANTIALLY MORE GUESTS THAN CURRENTLY ALLOWED. >> THERE’S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BEST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THERE WON’T BE ANYTHING LIKE IT, ACTUALLY. >> I MEAN, IT WAS PRETTY BIG BEFORE. WE SEEM TO DO OKAY AS A COUNTRY WITH IT. >> TRUMP ANNOUNCED HE WAS GOING TO. >> DO THAT AT THE. >> END OF JULY. >> IT WAS SET TO COST $200. >> MILLION, WHICH HE SAID HE WOULD GET FROM PRIVATE. >> DONORS, INCLUDING COMCAST, THE PARENT COMPANY OF OUR NETWORK. NOW, THE COST HAS ALREADY SWELLED TO. >> 250 MILLION. AND BY THE WAY, NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS WHEN. >> THEY REPORT. >> ON THIS. BUT I JUST. >> HAVE TO POINT OUT. >> THERE’S A LAW IN THE BOOKS. >> IT’S FROM THE 19TH CENTURY. IT’S BEEN. >> UPDATED MULTIPLE TIMES. IT’S CALLED THE ANTIDEFICIENCY ACT, AND IT. >> VERY EXPRESSLY FORBIDS SPENDING. >> MONEY ON GOVERNMENT PROJECTS THAT HAVE NOT. >> BEEN APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS. >> LIKE PRETTY BLACK AND WHITE. SO IT’S TRULY NOT CLEAR THIS IS AT ALL LEGAL. TRUMP ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE NEW CONSTRUCTION WOULD. >> NOT INTERFERE. >> WITH THE EXISTING STRUCTURE. >> WELL. >> HE LIED. >> LESS THAN THREE MONTHS LATER. >> THERE ARE EXCAVATORS TEARING DOWN THE. >> EXISTING STRUCTURE. >> AND NOT JUST LIKE COSMETIC FACADES BEING REMOVED. THE ENTIRE EASTERN SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS JUST GONE. DEMOLISHED. >> ALL WE SHOULD NOTE IN THE MIDDLE OF A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, WHILE MORE THAN A. >> MILLION. >> CIVIL SERVANTS GO WITHOUT. >> PAY, BUT. >> PRESUMABLY THE PERSON OPERATING THE. >> BACKHOE IS GETTING PAID BECAUSE TRUMP CAN APPARENTLY HIT UP HIS DONORS TO BANKROLL THE DEMOLITION OF THE LITERAL EDIFICE OF OUR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. IN THIS LATEST IMAGE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, YOU CAN SEE THE. ENTIRE EASTERN SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS. JUST GONE MOST OF THE EAST WING. WHY? BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. >> YOU PROBABLY HEAR THE BEAUTIFUL SOUND OF CONSTRUCTION TO THE BACK. YOU HEAR THAT SOUND? OH, THAT’S MUSIC TO MY EARS. I LOVE THAT SOUND. OTHER PEOPLE DON’T LIKE IT, I LOVE IT, JOSH. I THINK WHEN I HEAR THAT SOUND, IT REMINDS ME OF MONEY. >> YEAH, IT REMINDS YOU OF MONEY, RIGHT? >> WHO IS PAYING FOR IT AFTER ALL? >> WE SURE ALL. >> THAT MONEY IS GOING. >> TO BE TRACKED CAREFULLY? THIS IS, OF COURSE, HOW A MONARCH ACTS, RIGHT? AND THIS IS JUST ONE SMALL BUT VERY ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE THAT ABSOLUTELY PALES NEXT TO TRUMP’S MOST KINGLY URGES, LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, AND THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLIC. >> THE URGE TO. KILL ANYONE HE WANTS ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. >> PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO. >> SHARED VIDEO OF THE STRIKE ON THE SUBMARINE THAT HE. >> SAYS WAS. >> CARRYING A LARGE AMOUNT. >> OF FENTANYL. >> HE SAID THE ATTACK KILLED TWO PEOPLE ON BOARD. >> THE VESSEL. >> WHILE. >> TWO OTHERS SURVIVED. >> THIS WAS AT. >> LEAST THE FIFTH. >> STRIKE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. >> HAS. >> CARRIED OUT IN. >> INTERNATIONAL WATERS. >> AGAINST ALLEGED DRUG TRAFFICKERS. >> CRITICS HAVE. ARGUED THE STRIKES ARE ILLEGAL AND. >> CIRCUMVENT DUE. >> PROCESS LAWS. >> BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> HAS VOWED TO. >> CONTINUE THEM. THOSE KILLINGS. >> ARE ILLEGAL. I MEAN, ABSENT. >> SOME NEW. >> INFORMATION, ABSENT SOME NEW. >> LEGAL RATIONALE, BASED ON EVERYTHING WE DO. >> KNOW. >> THEY’RE ILLEGAL. >> BUT AGAIN. >> DON’T. >> TAKE IT FROM ME. >> TAKE IT. >> FROM. >> THIS CONSERVATIVE. >> REPUBLICAN SENATOR. >> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THESE STRIKES AGAINST THESE SUSPECTED DRUG. >> BOATS ARE LEGAL? >> NO. THEY GO AGAINST ALL OF OUR TRADITION. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU KILL SOMEONE, YOU SHOULD KNOW IF YOU’RE NOT AT WAR, NOT IN A DECLARED WAR, YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW SOMEONE’S NAME. AT LEAST YOU HAVE TO ACCUSE THEM OF SOMETHING. YOU HAVE TO PRESENT EVIDENCE. SO ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BLOWN UP WITHOUT US KNOWING THEIR NAME, WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE OF A CRIME. >> YEAH, THAT’S EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING. NOW, THERE’S LOTS OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS STORY. WE’RE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THEM LATER IN THE SHOW WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY. ONE OF THE BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN THAT STORY IS. >> THAT. >> THE PRESIDENT OF. >> COLOMBIA IS NOW ACCUSING TRUMP OF MURDERING A FISHERMAN FROM HIS COUNTRY IN ONE OF THOSE STRIKES. >> LAST MONTH, AND. >> TRUMP’S RESPONSE WAS SAYING HE WOULD CUT AID AND IMPOSE NEW TARIFFS ON COLOMBIAN IMPORTS, PUNISHING CRITICS OF HIS EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS WITH A NEW KINGLY TARIFF NOT AUTHORIZED BY. CONGRESS JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS TO SLAP IT ON. THEN, OF COURSE, THERE’S THE TRUMP’S. >> USE OF HIS PARDON POWER. >> NOW. >> THAT’S ONE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL POWERS. >> IN THE US CONSTITUTION THAT IS QUITE LITERALLY DERIVED FROM THE KINGS PRIVILEGES. AND ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A REALLY FASCINATING DEBATE AT THE TIME OF THE FOUNDING ABOUT IT, WITH MANY FOUNDING. >> FATHERS WORRIED IT. >> MIGHT BE ABUSED BY A CORRUPT, TYRANNICAL PRESIDENT. THIS WEEK, TRUMP USED THAT VAST POWER IN THE. >> MIDDLE OF HIS TERM. >> TO COMMUTE THE SENTENCE OF CONVICTED FRAUDSTER AND FORMER REPUBLICAN. CONGRESSMAN GEORGE SANTOS. TRUMP LOVES HIS ABILITY TO. PARDON PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS THE CLOSEST THING. >> IN THE AMERICAN. CONSTITUTION TO A KINGLY POWER. >> AND HE’S ALWAYS REMINDING PEOPLE HE. >> CAN EXERCISE. >> THAT PRIVILEGE WITHOUT RESTRAINT, EVEN FOR, SAY, CONVICTED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS. >> GHISLAINE MAXWELL, SERVING 20. >> YEARS IN PRISON FOR SEX TRAFFICKING FOR SEX TRAFFICKING, IS CLEMENCY ON. >> THE TABLE FOR HER. >> IN. >> EXCHANGE FOR TESTIMONY. >> I’M ALLOWED TO DO IT, BUT NOBODY’S ASKED ME TO DO IT. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT. I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CASE, BUT I KNOW I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT. I HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE PARDONS. >> YOU KNOW, WE ALL. >> SAW HOW TRUMP. >> UNILATERALLY PARDONED EVERY JANUARY 6TH. >> INSURRECTIONIST. >> EVEN THE ONES WHO ASSAULTED. >> COPS. >> WHO BEAT. THEIR BRAINS IN. RIGHT. EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE CLOSE TO TRUMP, INCLUDING VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE, SAID OF. >> COURSE THERE SHOULD BE NO CLEMENCY. >> FOR VIOLENT INSURRECTIONISTS. >> JUST LIKE A DAY OR TWO BEFORE HE. >> GRANTED THAT. >> EXACT CLEMENCY. >> GET THIS. TODAY WE LEARNED THAT ONE OF THOSE JANUARY 6TH RIOTERS THAT TRUMP PARDONED, SEEN HERE RIFLING. >> THROUGH SENATOR. TED CRUZ’S DESK. >> HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE. CONGRESSMAN HAKEEM JEFFRIES, THE. >> DEMOCRATIC HOUSE MINORITY LEADER. >> AND TRUMP IS STILL DEMANDING RESTITUTION FOR ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. >> WHO WERE CHARGED. >> FOR THEIR ROLE IN. >> JANUARY 6TH HIMSELF. >> YOU’RE REALLY NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS ONE. AND IF YOU HAVEN’T ENCOUNTERED IT YET TODAY, BUT I’LL READ. >> FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES. HERE WE GO. >> PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DEMANDING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PAY HIM ABOUT $230 MILLION IN COMPENSATION FOR THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO HIM, ACCORDING TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER, WHO ADDED THAT ANY SETTLEMENT MIGHT ULTIMATELY BE APPROVED BY SENIOR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WHO DEFENDED HIM OR THOSE IN. >> HIS ORBIT. >> THE SITUATION. >> HAS NO PARALLEL. >> IN. >> AMERICAN HISTORY, AS. >> TRUMP, A PRESIDENTIAL. >> CANDIDATE, WAS PURSUED. >> BY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EVENTUALLY WON ELECTION, TAKING OVER THE VERY GOVERNMENT. >> THAT. MUST NOW. >> REVIEW. >> HIS CLAIMS. >> TRUMP WAS CHARGED WITH FOUR FELONIES IN CONNECTION WITH HIS ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. HE USED HIS VAST WEALTH TO KEEP THE COURTS. >> BUSY TO DRAW. >> PROCEEDINGS OUT, SO HE NEVER FACED JUSTICE. AND THEN HIS HANDPICKED AND APPOINTED JUSTICES DELIVERED. >> HIM IMMUNITY. >> AND IT WORKED. HE WALKED FREE, HE GOT ELECTED, AND NOW HE WANTS TO BE REPAID OUT OF THE US TREASURY, OUT OF OUR COLLECTIVE MONEY. FOR THAT, YOU CANNOT PUT A PRICE ON VANITY, UNLESS. >> OF COURSE, YOU ARE KING DONALD. >> AND THAT IS WHY 7 MILLION PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS LAST WEEKEND IN MORE THAN 2500 COMMUNITIES WITH THIS VERY SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD MESSAGE NO KINGS. THERE AREN’T MANY MESSAGES MORE FUNDAMENTALLY AMERICAN THAN THAT ONE. IT IS THE BEDROCK OF OUR FOUNDING, WHICH IS WHY MAGA TRIED SO HARD TO PAINT THIS MASS MOVEMENT AS ANTI-AMERICAN, AND RADICAL REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING IN VAIN TO PUSH THIS OBVIOUSLY ABSURD DISTORTION, BECAUSE THEY DESPERATELY WANT PEOPLE NOT TO LOOK AT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING DAY IN, DAY OUT, ACTING LIKE A KING, POSTING VIDEOS OF HIMSELF AS A KING, USING A FIGHTER JET TO DEFECATE ON HIS SUBJECTS. THERE IS NO MYSTERY TO DECIPHER. >> HERE. >> NO CODED MESSAGES OR. >> DOG WHISTLES. >> YOU DON’T NEED SOME GRADUATE DEGREE IN SEMIOTICS. DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO BE THE KING. >> OF YO

“Donald Trump wants to be a king. That is the best explanation for everything he has been doing in recent days. Just look at what he is doing to the White House,” says Chris Hayes. 

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33 comments

  1. In the latest polls, 37% of Americans agree with this. That's more than 1 in 3 Americans. Thanks MAGA!

  2. Can't you stop this madman?
    I saw the White House damaged
    It's being defaced right now!
    I can't stop crying, and I'm from Romania…
    Real Americans must intervene!

  4. The symbol and landmark of the WH were destroyed by the Orange Clown, who believed it was his palace and thought he could do whatever he wanted.

  5. This is what you get when you get millions of ignorant stupid people voting for this tyrant good luck getting rid of him think he will just use his power to stay in power till he dies he will probably write ✍️ an executive order to get rid of elections next😂 he is that nuts 🤔

  7. Actually that East Wing is not even original to the White House and it was constructed in the 1940s.
    Many Presidents in history have added and remodeled.
    The media is just playing on this crap.
    Truthfully I don't think America is financially in the position to be blowing money and it sure does not look good to the American people that are struggling.
    Definitely wrong timing for a remodel.
    A White House committee has to approve of this which means it has been approved.

  9. How much health care / meals for the poor etc could have been paid for by the cost of this demolition and new build ? but thats ok because the Orange Man will no doubt state that he is the greatest ballroom dancer in the world so hence he needs a room to perform in.

  14. He's gone totally psychotic. To destroy a portion of an historic building and think that no will object, is delusional. His supporters are seriously delusional as well.

  22. so sad to see the WH getting destroyed.
    why isn't congress nor the senate stopping this madness?
    private money? Isn't that illegal? To build a national structure with private money… WITHOUT ANY STRINGS ATTACHED?
    Come on… 🤑😕

  23. First they said the ballroom would not affect the current building, now they're demolishing the entire east wing.

  26. I know it's an obvious thing to point out but can you imagine the outrage from the Republican party and right wing media if Joe Biden had done this?

  31. Empress Dowager Cixi, known as the "Old Buddha," ordered the reconstruction of the Summer Palace (Yihe Yuan) primarily between 1886 and 1895. The massive funds, estimated at 20-30 million taels of silver, were largely diverted from the navy's budget, severely weakening China's military modernization. This project was completed roughly 17 to 24 years before the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, and its drain on national resources is often cited as a contributing factor to the dynasty's collapse.

  33. I don't see what all the fuss is about. This is standard practice for any self-respecting dictatorship. After all, that's what the People voted for. This is democracy at work. Get over it.

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