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5. He's got form of course

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 10:38 AM

Dec 2025

He destroyed bas relief sculptures and grillwork from the Bonwit Teller department store on Fifth Avenue:

Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists

With Donald Trump demolishing the White House’s East Wing to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the president is returning to the playbook from his Trump Tower days—move fast, build big and leave preservationists fuming.

“I said that if the friezes could be saved, I’d be happy to donate them to the museum,” Trump wrote in “The Art of the Deal”; he later confirmed the deal in writing, according to Preservation News, a publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States.

In June 1980, however, the “sculptures were smashed by jackhammers” while the grillwork, which was supposed to be shipped to a New Jersey warehouse, went missing, Preservation News reported at the time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/22/trump-white-house-east-wing-demolish-tower-bonwit-teller-art-deco/

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Trump May Demolish Historic D.C. Buildings With Priceless Murals [View all] edhopper Dec 2025 OP

Then again he may not. It's not too certain he's got the East Wing disaster carved in stone yet. marble falls Dec 2025 #1

He may not build the Ballromm edhopper Dec 2025 #2

Just say he is stopped canetoad Dec 2025 #32

You're a glass half full type edhopper Dec 2025 #33

East Wing was destroyed. It is gone. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #3

And pedo Trump may not die, too Farmer-Rick Dec 2025 #16

Not carved in stone. More like smashed and crumbled. whopis01 Dec 2025 #28

Trump delights in destroying things other people love and value. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #4

It's also called "feelings of inadequacy." Intractable Dec 2025 #29

Yes he is very jealous of others. Irish_Dem Dec 2025 #30

He's got form of course TubbersUK Dec 2025 #5

When he is gone purr-rat beauty Dec 2025 #6

And have it all condemned...n/t the nelm Dec 2025 #10

THIS orangecrush Dec 2025 #20

He did that shit in New York too malaise Dec 2025 #7

Destroying artifacts just like the Taliban did in 2001 in Afghanistan .. MiHale Dec 2025 #8

This... Hope22 Dec 2025 #21

Future Dem nominees should make this promise newdeal2 Dec 2025 #9

I agree with the sentiment, in principle. ShazzieB Dec 2025 #19

The other guy promised foreign countries would pay tariffs newdeal2 Dec 2025 #25

Oh, I know! ShazzieB Dec 2025 #27

Of course he is indusurb Dec 2025 #11

Anything to do with "New Deal" will go in a heartbeat. Republicans have been wanting to get rid of it all forever. Srkdqltr Dec 2025 #12

Well then Farmer-Rick Dec 2025 #17

Desecration is his middle name. If it ain't gold plated he don't like it. F...ing barbarian! flashman13 Dec 2025 #13

If we can't recover what he's destroyed... Paladin Dec 2025 #14

And with the way he is posturing more favorably towards Russia and less favorably towards Europe, a project that . . . xocetaceans Dec 2025 #22

paywall. AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #15

After reading about the demolition for the T outhouse in NYC Hope22 Dec 2025 #18

Another reprise of Trump's Bonwit Teller Building travesty. SunSeeker Dec 2025 #23

Charge him HighFired49 Dec 2025 #24

Can that POS just die? UpInArms Dec 2025 #26

I'm concerned he *will* die ... Intractable Dec 2025 #31