'Morning Joe' Hosts Rip Trump For Taking 'Wrecking Ball' To White House
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“It is hard to watch that,” said Joe Scarborough, as Mika Brzezinski pointed out the White House is “not your home that you purchased in Jersey.”
“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski blasted President Donald Trump for taking a “wrecking ball” to the White House to make way for a massive ballroom.
On Monday, a demolition crew started long-planned work to transform the East Wing of the building into a 90,000 square foot, $250 million event space.
Viral images of an excavator tearing into the historic façade and windows were shown on the flagship MSNBC morning show Tuesday, and neither host could quite believe their eyes. (Watch a clip at the end of the story.)
Scarborough noted how Trump “promised that he was not going to take a wrecking ball to the existing structure,” but in fact “has taken a wrecking ball to the existing structure.”
“It is hard to watch that,” Scarborough continued. “And it’s hard to believe that any president could destroy the White House and take a wrecking ball to an existing structure so historic.”
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