Mary Margaret O'Loha[n]
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And he had all the plans with him.
So he kind of whipped them out and showed them to us and said, well, I've been talking about this the whole time.
I wanted to show this to anybody who will listen.
And he showed us these pictures of what he wants the new ballroom to look like.
You know, Alex Pfeiffer, one of the president's former staffers, I saw him tweeting about this last night, how the president has always been putting these pictures out there.
It's very clear that the East Wing wasn't there in the photos.
In fact, the ballroom was.
So a lot of the hubbub around here seems more noise than actual
concerns for reality.
And I think, as Josh Hawley said last night, the senator from Missouri, there's a lot of people who are upset about this that had no problem with pulling down monuments to history over the past several years.
So another ruckus news cycle at the White House.
There's a press briefing later today, and I'm sure we will hear about it there.
But in the meantime, it's an interesting news cycle to follow.
And I think we'll soon have a beautiful ballroom here on the White House grounds.
No, no, they're not.
In fact, you know, I'm standing right now on Pebble Beach, which is right outside the White House.
The West Wing is where a lot of the offices of the comms team are.
The main section of the White House is where a lot of these other important offices are, including the Oval Office, which is kind of, you know, we go back to, it's a little hard to explain, but you go through the White House and it's on the back, on the right.
So it's not on the East Wing side of things.
And a lot of the ruckus that's been raised about this has been suggesting that there's some kind of historical significance that's being destroyed with this.