During a 2011 roast, then-President Barack Obama predicted what the White House might look like if Donald Trump ever moved in. With Trump's recent demolition of the East Wing to make room for a massive ballroom,

How much Barack Obama actually spent on his White House renovations explained as US President Donald Trump’s $300,000,000 changes spark major fury online.

Does a photo show demolition done to the White House by Barack Obama to install an indoor basketball court? No, that's not true: A black and white photo shows the West Wing expansion project conducted by President Franklin Roosevelt

Trump administration responds to ballroom criticism by posting White House timeline that includes cocaine discovery, Muslim Brotherhood visit and Clinton scandal.

Republican Sen. David McCormick defended Donald Trump’s latest controversial moves in a rare interview, including the president’s $230 million request for the Justice Department to pay his legal bills, the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, and his party’s handling of the government shutdown.

Ironically, Trump’s dream of building a White House ballroom dates back to the Obama administration. While campaigning for president in 2016, Trump said he reached out to former White House senior advisor to President Obama, David Axelrod, and offered to work with the nation’s top developers to build a ballroom “free of charge.”

The most sweeping intervention before Trump’s was the Truman Reconstruction of 1948–1952, a project so ambitious that only the White House’s iconic exterior walls were left standing. By 1948, decades of patchwork repairs, design flaws and war damage left the mansion structurally unsound, according to the White House Historical Association.

It is privately funded. For more than a century, U.S. Presidents have been renovating, expanding and modernizing the White House. In 2009, President Barack Obama resurfaced the south-grounds tennis court into a basketball court and added the White House ...

First intended as an entrance for social events, the East Wing became the first lady's office space. Historians say the shift was a key part of professionalizing staff for the president's wife.