Outrage over Trump’s White House East Wing demolition echoes his 1980 destruction of the Bonwit Teller building, reigniting debate over preservation and progress.

Decades before President Donald Trump took a bulldozer to the East Wing of the White House, the longtime real estate ...

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Trump broke his promise to leave the East Wing alone — the same way he reneged on a promise to preserve art deco friezes on a ...

The vast refurbishment of the East Wing ignores questions of style and scale. But the US president has form in this regard.

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The White House's East Wing isn't Donald Trump's first tear-down. He's been raising dust and outrage since the 1980s.