Lara Trump blasts Swalwell’s call to demolish White House ballroom

“My View” host Lara Trump denounced Rep. Eric Swalwell’s “ridiculous” suggestion that the following Democratic presidential candidate promise to demolish President Donald Trump’s $250 million White Home ballroom.

‘It is ridiculous… everyone knows that. And everybody needs to be completely happy about this [the ballroom]”, Trump stated on ‘Fox & Mates First’ on Monday.

“However after all that is Eric Swalwell…”

The California Democrat framed the pledge to demolish the addition as a litmus check for the occasion’s 2028 contenders, writing on X on Saturday: “Do not even take into consideration in search of the Democratic nomination for president until you promise to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE.”

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Lara Trump seems to be on throughout the 2025 Winter Assembly of the Republican Nationwide Committee on January 17 in Washington, DC (left); Consultant Eric Swalwell on the US Capitol on January 25, 2023 in Washington, DC (proper). (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures (left); Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures (proper))

Swalwell’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for touch upon the case.

Democrats have been important of the sprawling 90,000-square-foot growth, which might give the White Home a proper ballroom for the primary time in historical past.

The ballroom will exchange the East Wing and follows the traditional design of the White Home.

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An excavator clears particles after the East Wing of the White Home was demolished on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC (Eric Lee/Getty Pictures)

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Development started earlier this month and might be funded by Trump and personal donors.

Regardless of opposition from many, The Washington Put up editorial board defended the undertaking on Sunday, arguing that the following Democratic president might be proud of the house for official occasions and internet hosting.

Trump responded to that declare throughout her look Monday.

“That is superb… they’re precisely proper,” she stated.

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“The one factor I disagree with them on is that I do not know once we’ll see one other Democrat as president, whether or not that is the best way the Democrats are behaving on the subject of a lovely renovation that everybody ought to be capable of get pleasure from, that’s lengthy overdue and actually wanted within the White Home.”

Amanda Macias and Hanna Panreck of Fox Information contributed to this report.