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David Ignatius: Destruction of the East Wing Has Really Upset People

‘Donald Trump has turned it into his own personal property’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

IGNATIUS: “So Joe, this is the presidency as wrecking ball. I think that's one reason that destruction of the East Wing has really upset people in a way that even Trump's most outrageous other actions haven't. Peggy Noonan is a very balanced, sensible person, but she was anguished by what she was seeing. And I think it comes down to the sense that we all have, we've been to the White House or certainly seen photographs of it, and we think of it as the people's house. It was built deliberately, to be understated, it's not a palace like Victorian rulers have had. It's the people's house. And Donald Trump has turned it into his own personal property, or at least he behaves that way. You know, in the middle of the night, the bulldozers come in and begin tearing down this historic building. If the 'Washington Post' hadn't run a photograph taken from across the street in the Treasury building, we might not have known for 24 hours that it was even happening. It was stealthy in the middle of the night. And I think that that makes people angry.”

 

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