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From Chappy Gypsy

Hillary Clinton is furious about Trump’s White House ballroom construction: “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”

Fact Check: Hillary is 100% wrong! 

Not only is she wrong, but this time the Taxpayers are not paying for it. 

The truth is that the White House has been rebuilt, reimagined, and expanded more times than Hillary has been cheated on.

The idea that any construction equals “destruction” ignores more than two centuries of American history.

The White House has never been frozen in time.

It’s been a living, breathing symbol of the presidency…rebuilt from ashes, modernized through wars, and upgraded to meet the moment.

When British troops burned the building to the ground in 1814, it wasn’t preservation committees or political pundits that saved it.

It was American determination.

James Hoban rebuilt it from the rubble by 1817.

That was the first full reconstruction of the People’s House—long before air conditioning, Wi-Fi, or Secret Service checkpoints existed.

If rebuilding from literal ashes wasn’t “destroying it,” then a new ballroom certainly isn’t either.

By the early 1900s, the place had turned into a Victorian museum of clutter.

It took Theodore Roosevelt to rip down partitions, rip out garish décor, and expand the building for the modern presidency.

He even added the West Wing, the same space every president since has used to run the country.

At the time, critics said Roosevelt was “defacing” history.

A century later, it’s the most recognizable part of the complex.

Then came Harry Truman, who discovered that the floors were sagging and the walls were separating from the frame.

Engineers warned that the entire mansion was in danger of collapse.

Truman didn’t whine about preservation purity… he gutted the entire interior, leaving only the stone shell standing, and rebuilt it with steel beams and reinforced concrete.

When the first family moved back in 1952, the “new” White House had an entirely different skeleton.

If Hillary thinks Trump adding a ballroom is destruction, what word would she use for Truman literally rebuilding the whole thing from scratch?

Later presidents kept adapting it.

Calvin Coolidge added a third floor.

Franklin Roosevelt expanded the East Wing.

Nixon put in a bowling alley.

Carter installed solar panels.

Reagan revamped communications rooms. (And ripped out Carter’s solar panels!) 

Barack Obama added a basketball court.

The Clintons themselves oversaw interior redesigns, new wiring, and furniture restorations.

No one called it “destroying” the White House then.

And let’s not forget—when the Clintons left the White House, they were caught up in controversy for taking furniture, china, and gifts that didn’t belong to them.

Government auditors had to step in to recover property that was part of the White House collection.

So before Hillary scolds anyone about what belongs to “the people,” she might want to remember that her own exit raised questions about knowing the difference between public property and personal souvenirs.

And lets not even get into the graphic details of what Hillary’s husband Bill did in the Oval Office.

Meanwhile, President Trump’s renovation isn’t costing taxpayers a dime.

It’s being privately funded, with full transparency about design and cost.

No public money, no hidden invoices, no bills handed to the American people.

That alone separates it from nearly every major renovation in modern history.

So let’s be honest.

Every generation of presidents has changed the White House to fit the times.

Some changes were born of necessity, others of taste, and some for history’s sake.

What matters is that the building endures, representing the nation’s strength, not any one family’s ownership.

The White House belongs to the American people, but it is also the president’s residence.

That has always been the balance.

It’s “our house,” yes, but the caretaker inside has always had the right—and the duty—to maintain and modernize it.

Hillary’s outrage ignores that history.

She was happy enough to redecorate and refurnish when she lived there, but now she calls renovation “destruction.”

The same walls she once walked through were rebuilt by men who understood that preservation doesn’t mean paralysis.

If anything, the real disrespect would be letting the place rot in the name of politics.

The White House has survived fire, war, decay, and bad wallpaper.

It will “survive” this, too.

A ballroom won’t destroy it.

It will, as it always has, evolve with America… standing taller than the critics who think shouting “it’s not his house” can erase two hundred years of renovation, resilience, and renewal.