{"id":39737,"date":"2025-10-22T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-trump-allowed-to-demolish-part-of-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:50:07","slug":"is-trump-allowed-to-demolish-part-of-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-trump-allowed-to-demolish-part-of-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump allowed to demolish part of the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Trump administration has been defending the demolition work which has begun on part of the White House, to allow the construction of a new $250m (\u00a3149m) ballroom. It said &#8220;for over 100 years, presidents have enhanced the White House&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But how big a project is President Trump&#8217;s ballroom and does he have the power to order such major work on the building? BBC Verify reporter Jake Horton has been taking a closer look. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"produced-by-aisha-sembhi.-graphics-by-sally-nicholls.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Sally Nicholls.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx2p045p1zpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has been defending the demolition work which has begun on part of the White House, to allow the construction of a new $250m (\u00a3149m) ballroom. It said &#8220;for over 100 years, presidents have enhanced the White House&#8221;. But how big a project is President Trump&#8217;s ballroom and does he have the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[274,12341,697,590,494,948],"class_list":["post-39737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-allowed","tag-demolish","tag-house","tag-part","tag-trump","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39739,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39737\/revisions\/39739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}