Amid President Donald Trump's ambitious $200 million plan to demolish the White House East Wing and install a ballroom in its place, a claim about the basketball court built at the White House by ...

“This is a major renovation by a president who will not even be able to ‘benefit’ from this vanity project,” former White House aide Yemisi Egbewole told theGrio. The White House is playing defense ...

In October 2025, as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump defended the partial demolition of the White House's East Wing to make way for Trump's planned ballroom, a photograph circulated ...

President Barack Obama famously chided Donald Trump in April 2011 during the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. The reality show star had repeatedly and falsely claimed that Obama had not been ...

The portrait in question was hung in the Ground Floor Corridor of the White House. This area was not part of the now-demolished East Wing. There was no evidence the Trump administration or anyone else ...

President Barack Obama’s mockery of Donald Trump in 2011 may have fueled the former real estate mogul’s run for president and his desire to leave his mark on the White House.