There’s an interesting juxtaposition of these two building projects: President Trump champions a neo-Classical ballroom and Obama is delayed on his presidential center “Death Star.”
Democrats: “President Trump’s ballroom at the White House is going to look horrible!”
Also Democrats: “Barack Obama’s Presidential library looks great!” pic.twitter.com/u985RKU6zm
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Ross Douthat, in a column titled: “Better Trump’s Ballroom than Obama’s Tower”: The controversial public building is ugly and intimidating, architectural vainglory battening on presidential ego, inappropriate to its setting, unmoored from memory and tradition. I’m talking, naturally, about Barack Obama’s unfinished presidential center, currently looming like a Star Wars barracks over the residents of Chicago’s South Side. And then, on the new ballroom: The general design
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