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The East Wing of the White House was demolished this week, making way for a new $300 million ballroom. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em> to discuss what authority Donald Trump may have to dismantle the historic structure.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of memories that people have there,\u201d Toluse Olorunnipa, a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>, said last night. \u201cSeeing it defaced and deconstructed in a matter of three days was really shocking to the conscience of a lot of people, especially people who have worked there.\u201d<\/p>\n Olorunnipa also added that \u201cfor people who admire Washington, who admire the presidency, who admire the White House, it\u2019s a sign that this president is not doing things the way previous presidents did. He\u2019s doing it his own way, and he\u2019s doing it in a way that really thumbs his nose at the idea that checks and balances actually work.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic<\/em>, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times<\/em>; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker<\/em>; David Ignatius, a foreign-affairs columnist at The Washington Post<\/em>; and Toluse Olorunnipa, a staff Writer at The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The East Wing of the White House was demolished this week, making way for a new $300 million ballroom. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss what authority Donald Trump may have to dismantle the historic structure. \u201cThere are a lot of memories that people have there,\u201d Toluse Olorunnipa, a staff writer at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[17371,898,81,2439],"class_list":{"0":"post-30564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-demolishes","9":"tag-east","10":"tag-trump","11":"tag-wing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}