{"id":8053,"date":"2025-11-01T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:03:08","slug":"reflections-how-trumps-new-white-house-ballroom-echoes-the-grand-monuments-of-chinas-emperors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8053","title":{"rendered":"Reflections | How Trump\u2019s new White House ballroom echoes the grand monuments of China\u2019s emperors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/10\/31\/3dacc4a5-2c76-4582-8bb5-0b01d989bc72_dd23cbea.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In October 2025, United States President Donald Trump initiated the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a grand new ballroom, making it the largest alteration to the presidential complex in decades.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The demolition has provoked fierce controversy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Preservationists, historians and members of Congress condemned the move as an act of vandalism against a national landmark. The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that the new structure would \u201coverwhelm\u201d the historic core of the White House, while critics accused Trump of bypassing required planning and review procedures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Supporters, however, praised the project as a privately funded modernisation that would leave an enduring architectural legacy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump\u2019s architectural adventure fits neatly into a long lineage of rulers bewitched by spectacle. No present-day politician has so instinctively grasped the power of showmanship \u2013 the choreographed signing ceremonies, the gilded interiors, the capitalised superlatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/chinese-culture\/article\/3331022\/how-trumps-new-white-house-ballroom-echoes-grand-monuments-chinas-emperors?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2025, United States President Donald Trump initiated the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a grand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7709,6292,7710,6533,636,1196,7711,5433,4306,3035],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-ballroom","tag-chinas","tag-echoes","tag-emperors","tag-grand","tag-house","tag-monuments","tag-reflections","tag-trumps","tag-white","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}