Morning Joe‘s whine-a-thon over President Trump’s ballroom mission has entered its second day.
Yesterday, we caught Jon Meacham emoting that Trump’s resolution to proceed with the mission “is in some methods a definition of why we had the American Revolution.” Do not hearth till you see the whites of their tablecloths, Jon!
In the identical episode, Meacham disingenuously instructed that earlier than beginning, Trump ought to have introduced within the White Home Historic Affiliation and the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation. However as Mika had already revealed earlier within the present, the Nationwide Belief has already gone on document opposing the mission!
If Trump had submitted to the teams’ tender mercies, and their countless calls for for redesigns, web site critiques, hearings, solicitation of public commentary, and so forth., what are the percentages the ballroom would have been accomplished earlier than the top of Trump’s time period — if ever?
Right now, Katty Kay referred to as the mission “a let-them-eat-cake second” on condition that it was occurring throughout a authorities shutdown by which some meals welfare advantages are on maintain.
Eugene Robinson took it an absurd step additional, claiming:
“Folks in Washington do not appear to have a way of how ridiculous and infuriating that is to everyone else within the nation.”
On behalf of tens of thousands and thousands of individuals exterior Washington, let me guarantee you, Gene: we’re not infuriated, though many could be mildly amused by your hyperbole.
Then there was Jonathan Lemire, who claimed that “the destruction of the White Home, the Folks’s Home, the destruction of the East Wing, has resonated with individuals in a shocking approach.” Lemire’s proof? That Lisa Murkowski mentioned she’d heard from constituents in Alaska saying that “that is actually upsetting.”
Have you ever seen that when a politician talks about what they’ve heard from constituents, their views at all times appear to coincide with the politician’s personal?
Lemire then placed on his Democrat advisor cap, saying that the ballroom mission is “a metaphor for what this administration is doing, and Democrats ought to make that time.” Submit your bill to Chuck and Hakeem, Jonathan!
After which there was Kurt Andersen, whose present gig is with The Atlantic. Poor Kurt received off to a tough begin, claiming that Trump was demolishing “the 18th-century East Wing of the White Home.” Solely two centuries off, Andersen! The East Wing was constructed firstly of the twentieth century.
Andersen went on to say that pictures of the demo work evoke “a pure catastrophe or, extra generally lately, conflict or terrorism.”
And at last, there was Joe Scarborough. Saying that “an image paints a thousand phrases,” Joe claimed the photographs of Trump:
“Destroying the East Wing of the White Home, solo, neatly explains what the primary 10 months of the second Trump time period has been. And that is been a president who does not assume he has to seek the advice of with anyone about something.”
As when Trump, both straight or through his emissaries, consulted with each side to the Gaza conflict, acquiring the return of hostages and making a ceasefire that, for now, has typically held? That failure to seek the advice of, Joe?
Be aware: A lot of the dialogue targeted on pictures of the East Wing’s demolition. However because the present acknowledged, the demolition has now been accomplished. In months to return, we’ll be handled to pictures of the ballroom rising. And when it is accomplished, we’ll have a good looking addition to the White Home advanced. Examine and distinction with Obama’s library, that appears very similar to a high-rise mausoleum.
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
10/24/25
7:13 am EDTKATTY KAY: It is just a little little bit of a allow them to eat cake second, the place the president is constructing an enormous ballroom that presumably can have plenty of gold flashed round in it —
EUGENE ROBINSON: Ya assume?
KAY: — concurrently persons are not getting their meals advantages.
ROBINSON: Look, I believe these photos of the East Wing being demolished, most likely is surprising to lots of people. It is for a ballroom. It is for a big ballroom that is going to be festooned with extra gold than, most likely they will have to strengthen the flooring to carry all of the gold, at a time when there’s this ache. And the federal government is shut down.
It is not good politically for a president. It is definitely not good for almost all in Congress to have the federal government shut down week after week after week.
Folks in Washington do not appear to have a way of how ridiculous and infuriating that is to everyone else within the nation.
JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, to start with, I do assume that the destruction of the White Home, the Folks’s Home, the destruction of the East Wing, has resonated with individuals in a shocking approach. We heard Senator Murkowski of Alaska final night time speaking about how individuals in Alaska have reached out to her, saying that is actually upsetting to see this.
So it does look like it’s exactly on the nostril, as a metaphor for what this administration is doing, and Democrats ought to make that time.
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KURT ANDERSEN: It is a visible world we dwell in, proper? It is a 30-second, have a look at this . . . Should you have been going to put in writing this complete factor, oh, let’s have him abruptly tear down the 18th-century wing, East Wing of the White Home.
What do the photographs seem like? Perhaps a pure catastrophe or, extra generally lately, conflict or terrorism.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: If an image paints a thousand phrases, and that image of the White Home, of the president on his personal, destroying the East Wing of the White Home, solo, with out doing what each different president has executed.
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However once more, that image neatly explains what the primary 10 months of the second Trump time period has been. And that is been a president who does not assume he has to seek the advice of with anyone about something.
