When the White House East Wing was demolished this week -- with it went more than a century of American history. Home to the first lady's official office, a movie theater and even a hidden bunker underneath, the East Wing was leveled to make way for President Donald Trump's new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at Chelsea Clinton after her criticism of the president's destruction of the White House East Wing. "Sit this one out," Trump Jr. told her on X. The president's son also invoked Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal in his response.

The East Wing rubble dump comes two months after Politico revealed Trump was eyeing a refurb and rebrand of the course.

A new White House “Major Events Timeline” contains digs at former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Under a nearly-60-year-old law, the White House and several other notable buildings are exempt from a key historic preservation rule - though one expert told the BBC that presidents typically follow it anyway. Trump's renovation appears to be the biggest in decades, but the president of the US does have the power to make those changes.

A real-life Indiana Jones likened Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” White House destruction to the cultural vandalism once committed by ISIS. Trump began tearing into the East Wing this week to clear space for his gaudy $300 million,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump as a “builder-in-chief" amid backlash from critics over the demolition of a part of the East Wing.