Trump says East Wing being demolished for White House ballroom: ‘We had to take down the existing structure’ - Trump lies again surprised?

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5568467-trump-white-house-east-wing-ballroom

The entire East Wing of the White House is being demolished to make way for President Trump’s planned massive ballroom.

“In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure,” Trump, flanked by renderings of the ballroom, told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. 

Shortly after the project was originally announced in July, the president said that the construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom wouldn’t “interfere with the current building.”

“It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” Trump said.