The real desecration isn’t in the White House — it’s in America’s newsrooms
Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.
President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.
If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’
The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”
First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.
“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.
A restoration, not a renovation
Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.
What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.
The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.
The selective guardians of history
Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”
Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”
If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”
The real desecration
The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.
The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.
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Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.
The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.
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Biden’s tone-deafness reverberates as Hawaiians search for survivors
As stories featuring heroes who risked their own lives to save friends, family, and strangers from the fate of the flames in Maui continue to flood the media, President Biden continues to reflect an inability to grasp — or at least be sympathetic to — what has happened.
Biden claimed, while wearing a lei, that he and Jill have a “little sense” of “what it's like to lose a home,” as their home was once struck by lightning. He also loudly complained that the ground was hot while visiting the ashes of a once-beautiful city.
Mark Levin, who despises the president’s reaction to the wildfires, sheds light on the stories of devastation and hope that Biden has confirmed he is incapable of understanding.
One story features a young man, Benny Reinicke, who carried Sincerity Mirkovich, a total stranger, for miles in order to get Mirkovich and her daughter, Lani Williams, to safety.
The mother-daughter duo had jumped in their car to escape as wildfires began to ravage the town they have lived in for most of their lives. As they sat in standstill traffic, the two found that embers were already falling down on them.
"Then we see another fire on the side of us, a whole house. We're in the car and a whole tree is on fire, and I was like, 'Oh my God, we're going to die,’” Williams told "Good Morning America."
The two decided the best course of action was to seek shelter in the water. However, their escape route proved too difficult, as Mirkovich uses a walker for assistance.
That’s when Benny Reinicke came in.
The man saw the women struggling and told Mirkovich to lean on his back so he could carry her over the seawall and into the water.
Reinicke got them to safety and then stayed with them for over eight hours until the fires subsided.
The trio had not seen each other since the rescue, but they were brought together for a heartwarming reunion on "Good Morning America."
Levin is convinced that it was the Biden-led government that let people like Mirkovich and Williams down — and the government still refuses to acknowledge that obvious fact.
“You can’t prevent every fire and you can’t prevent these high winds in the middle of the Pacific, but to keep blaming climate change for something that obviously had nothing to do with climate change,” Levin comments.
“Then I have this fraud of a president, dementia, no dementia, who has to be told he needs to get there and he has to break off from his second vacation [in] Lake Tahoe, where he constantly is mooching off billionaires and foreign governments and so forth and so on,” he adds.
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