On the heels of its gushing over President Trump’s destruction of an entire wing of the White House to build a ballroom, WorldNetDaily used an anonymously written Oct. 31 article to gush even more over another White House project — with, of course, plenty of whining about non-right-wingers complaining about the ballroom plans:
President Donald Trump’s work on the White House includes, as Democrats have raged, a new ballroom.
To seat some 999 people for state functions, it essentially will replace the East Wing, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in costs are being funded by donors – not taxpayers.
The leftists immediately erupted, like California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, with wild ideas that Democrat presidential hopefuls must pledge to take a wrecking ball to what will be a federal building on day one.
But evidence now confirms that Trump’s ability to renovate in style is online.
He posted images a finished bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom suite in the White House.
He said, “I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!” he posted online.
Unmentioned is the fact that the redone bathroom came in for some healthy mockery, including from an architectural website:
Are those marble tiles or proper slabs? What about a shower curtain? Or a hook for the hand held shower wand whose hose seems too short for taller guests? Is there a floor drain? Why didn’t Trump install the Ultraluxe 12 in. Rough-In 1-Piece 1/1.6 GPF Dual Flush Elongated Toilet in Shiny Gold with seat included?
The renovation swapped out materials from 1945, when President Truman redesigned the green-hued bathroom in an art deco style.
[…]Trump argued that this latest renovation is “totally in keeping” with the original version from the 1860s, but historians contest this, like Michael Bishop, former executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Edward Lengel, chief historian of the White House Historical Association, said: “It doesn’t look anything like 1860s interiors to me.”
John Oliver called the bathroom photographs “tone deaf” amid the government shutdown, when Americans are deprived of SNAP benefits, government employees are going without pay, and shortages are affecting air-traffic controllers and TSA agents at airports nationwide.
The anonymous WND writer refused to allow a dissenting view.