Weijia Jiang: Can Trump Tear Down Anything He Wants? Like the Jefferson Memorial?
“Can the President tear down anything he wants, without oversight? Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial?”
— CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, October 23, 2025.
Bradley Whitford: East Wing Demolition Is a Distraction from Trump Being Friends with Epstein
“We have a President who is a corrupt authoritarian, in my view, who has a kind of contempt for democratic values and its symbols. And I think he thinks he has the right to destroy the people’s house, do some influence peddling along the way, build a ballroom as a monument to distract us from the fact that inflation is up, job creation is down, Congress has shut down the government, and we’re suppressing information about the fact that, you know, he was best friends with the most notorious child rapist [Jeffrey Epstein] in history.”
— Actor Bradley Whitford on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, October 24, 2025.
Sunny Hostin: Donald Trump Is Never Going to Leave the White House
“I actually have come to the conclusion that he [Donald Trump] is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing – it’s going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn’t plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 27, 2025.
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