White House Staffers Couldn’t Care Less About the East Wing Demolition

White House staffers don’t look to attraction each that overmuch astir nan ongoing demolition of nan East Wing occurring successful nan mediate of nan government shutdown.

“Not affecting maine astatine all, to beryllium honest,” a White House adjutant tells WIRED. This source, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to nan press, adds they “have not thought astir it” and that they’ve “probably only heard a fistful of group talking astir it.”

President Donald Trump is moving up connected a multihundred-million-dollar, privately funded ballroom that would supplant nan East Wing, which was added onto nan White House successful 1902 earlier undergoing an description successful 1942. Images of nan demolition were met pinch shock and varying degrees of outrage, arsenic nan management had not indicated location would beryllium immoderate wrecking crews progressive for nan ballroom project.

The East Wing of nan White House is nan accepted moving location for first ladies and their staff, not to mention nan tract of a agelong statement of historical events.

This is, ostensibly, wherever first woman Melania Trump’s agency would be. Even though nan first woman has chosen to enactment successful New York full-time frankincense acold successful Trump 2.0, location were respective teams of staffers who were efficaciously evicted immoderate clip earlier nan cranes started banging distant connected Monday.

According to different White House official, nan agency of nan first woman will move into nan White House proper. Calligraphers—yes, location is evidently a squad of ornamental handwriters that had been operating retired of nan East Wing—the White House Military Office, nan White House Visitors Office, and nan Office of Legislative Affairs are each moving into nan Eisenhower Executive Office Building crossed nan street, according to nan aforesaid official.

A spokesperson for nan first woman declined to remark connected wherever she will activity erstwhile she’s successful DC aliases what her thoughts are connected nan demolition of nan tract that erstwhile housed her celebrated show of 40 reddish Christmas trees successful 2018. (This was nan aforesaid vacation play erstwhile nan Trumps took telephone calls from children, and nan president asked a 7-year-old if they were “still a believer successful Santa” because astatine that age, “it’s marginal.”)

One Trumpworld root acquainted pinch nan business was dismissive that nan demolition could origin immoderate problems pinch nan first woman aliases among different staff.

“This is specified a non-issue,” they show WIRED, besides requesting anonymity to talk nan temper internally. “It hasn’t travel up successful a azygous speech I’ve had pinch management officials successful nan past respective weeks.”