President Trump being the brunt of left media bias is nothing new, but CNN has managed to catch itself in a very public double standard.
Breitbart reported on the double standard in reporting from the leftist media over the current renovations at the White House. Demolition of the East Wing’s facade went viral on X, which prompted meltdown from Democrats and media outlets like CNN. Breitbart points out that CNN continues to publish rhetoric that President Trump is “destroying the White House.”
But President Trump is doing the complete opposite. The addition of the ballroom increases the White House’s value and is funded by private donations. Interestingly, President Trump isn’t the first president to undertake costly renovations. In 2009, Barack Obama converted the White House tennis court into a full-scale basketball court for $376 million. Back then, CNN covered the story with a very different angle, an air of excitement. President Trump’s so-called “destruction” of the White House will allow for larger state dinners.
According to ABC News, in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt commissioned a new section of the grounds to accommodate the president and his officials. The project cost $65,000, which is around $2 million today. In 1942, the East Wing was built under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It’s not just CNN who are having a meltdown, but Democrats as well. The Hill reported that liberal social media personality Ron Filipkowski called the ballroom project “desecration and an abomination.”
But Senator Josh Hawley challenges and dismantles CNN’s narrative about the project during a live interview. When a reporter asked him, “What about just uprooting the—you know—this is an iconic building? Hawley exposed their false outrage by responding,
“Manu, I will just say this. I made this point yesterday, that I hear all of a sudden from my liberal friends that they’re very concerned about our history.” He then added, “These are the same people who tore down every statue they could get their hands on in the last four years.”
He refers to the period when the left tore down statues of American heroes for the so-called symbolism of colonialism.
Hawley pointed out hypocrisy, “They didn’t have any concern for history then. Now all of a sudden, they’re like, oh, the facade of the East Wing is iconic.”