A former staffer for the First Lady criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday for demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a grandiose ballroom.

Stephanie Grisham, who served as chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump during the first Trump administration, told The New York Times that seeing the East Wing in rubble was like watching “history literally being demolished in front of our eyes.”

Grisham is the latest in a series of former White House staffers to denounce the project. “It was such a breath of fresh air from the West Wing,” she said. “I hate to see that kind of history literally being demolished in front of our eyes.”

Several critics have expressed concern over Trump’s decision to pursue the ballroom construction amid a government shutdown and an uncertain economy. Other former staffers speaking with The New York Times described the project as destroying the “living history” of the building.

“There was never a day I didn’t catch my breath walking into the East Wing,” Laura Schwartz, White House director of events during the Clinton administration, told the outlet. “That’s what makes the loss to me so painful. It’s not just a building. It’s the living history.”
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