{"id":2117,"date":"2025-10-24T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:34:29","slug":"chelsea-clinton-grew-up-in-white-house-shes-unsettled-by-trump-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Clinton grew up in White House. She’s ‘unsettled’ by Trump renovations."},"content":{"rendered":"

When Chelsea Clinton lived in the\u00a0White House\u00a0as a 90s tween, she knew it was the \u201cPeople\u2019s House.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, the 45-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is “unsettled” by President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0tearing down the historic building’s\u00a0East Wing\u00a0to make way for a\u00a0$300,000 ballroom.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0USA TODAY op-ed, Clinton concedes that past presidents and first ladies have made changes to the White House that \u201cadded elements for efficiency, for comfort, for aesthetics.\u201d But she said there is no evidence that the president consulted with experts to preserve the history and integrity of the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith less than a year until we celebrate our country\u2019s 250th anniversary, it is unsettling that such substantial alterations to the 225-year-old People\u2019s House are being undertaken without a historic-preservation review and seemingly without the involvement of any historians, and I would love to be proven wrong here,\u201d Clinton writes.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\"Holiday<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\"Seen<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

See the historic East Wing, from its Thomas Jefferson origins to the modern White House<\/h2>\n
Holiday decorations are seen surrounding the East Wing entrance of the White House during a media preview of the 2024 holiday decorations on Dec. 2, 2024 in Washington, DC. The theme for this year’s White House holiday decorations is “Season of Peace and Light.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The East Wing traditionally houses the first lady\u2019s offices. When Hillary Clinton had an office there,\u00a0she worked to increase funding\u00a0for research and treatment of cancer, AIDS, osteoporosis, and juvenile diabetes and chaired the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. That\u00a0entire wing, where former first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Laura Bush worked too, was demolished this week \u2013 in a reversal of earlier renovation plans.<\/p>\n

The White House first released the plans for the\u00a090,000-square-foot ballroom\u00a0on July 31. Trump at the time told reporters that the addition would be \u201cbuilt over on the east side, and it will be beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new construction follows a drastic renovation of the\u00a0White House\u2019s Rose Garden, which prompted backlash and elicited comparisons to the president\u2019s ritzy Florida property, Mar-a-Lago. Earlier this summer, the\u00a0center section of the Rose Garden, which was covered with grass, was replaced with stone tiles and picnic tables with umbrellas.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\"Chelsea<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>
Chelsea Clinton at the White House in April of 1997 with her parents after returning home from school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGiven the widespread public rebuke to the cementification of the Rose Garden and its apparent recapitulation as \u2018The Rose Garden Club at the White House\u2019 and the outrage at the demolition of the East Wing, I am clearly not alone in feeling unsettled,\u201d Clinton writes.<\/p>\n

Clinton, in her op-ed, says that while Trump has the \u201cauthority\u201d over the White House grounds, it always requires \u201cstewardship.\u201d Stewardship, she writes, \u201crequires transparency, consultation, and an accounting for history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s being dismantled today isn\u2019t just marble or plaster; it is a reflection of how easily history can be erased when power forgets purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contributing: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Joey Garrison, and Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:\u00a0Chelsea Clinton is ‘unsettled’ by Trump’s White House renovation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Chelsea Clinton lived in the\u00a0White House\u00a0as a 90s tween, she knew it was the \u201cPeople\u2019s House.\u201d Now,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}