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“Real Time” host Bill Maher sounded the alarm on the “symbolism” behind President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> renovations to the White House and revealed what “bothers” him about the demolition of the East Wing.<\/p>\n

“The symbolism is he\u2019s not leaving,” the late-night host told his panel on Friday. “Who puts in a giant ballroom if you\u2019re leaving?”<\/p>\n

On Friday, the East Wing, where guests and tourists entered for events, was demolished.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s plan to construct a 90,000-square-foot ballroom is estimated to cost $300 million, which he says is privately funded by himself, several major tech companies and “many generous patriots.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

CHELSEA CLINTON RIPS TRUMP’S ‘DISREGARD FOR HISTORY’ WITH WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Although Maher objected to Trump\u2019s demolition, he sparred with former RNC chairman Michael Steele over whether the White House is “just a building.”<\/p>\n

“We watched this week the destruction of a symbol of this government,” Steele lamented. “Of our democracy, of our pluralistic society.”<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re talking about the White House?” Maher countered. “Oh, it\u2019s a building, Mike.”<\/p>\n

“Okay, Bill, it\u2019s a building maybe to you, but to a lot of Americans it\u2019s not,” the MSNBC political analyst argued.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS, LIBERAL MEDIA FIGURES FUME OVER TRUMP DEMOLISHING WHITE HOUSE EAST WING FOR BALLROOM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Steele went on to call the White House his “childhood,” describing what it meant to him as he grew up in Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m going to tell you as a young kid growing up in D.C., when my daddy took me by \u2018that building,\u2019 it meant something to me as a 10-year-old,” he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It meant something to me to grow up in a town where everybody in this country came and protested and cried and screamed and laughed,” Steele said. “And I was a part of that. So that building, to me, was my childhood.”<\/p>\n

WHITE HOUSE RESPONDS TO REPORTS TRUMP NAMED NEW BALLROOM AFTER HIMSELF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Steele then said that Trump tore the East Wing down “without accountability.” The late-night host<\/a> said he agreed with Steele on that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You know, he should have gotten the permits, but that’s how he does things,” Maher contended. “I agree, but it is just a building, first of all.”<\/p>\n

“That part of the building wasn’t always there,” he continued. “Presidents do change the buildings. Nixon put in a bowling alley. Obama made the tennis court a basketball court. I can’t get this mad about everything, Mike. I just can’t.”<\/p>\n

Steele\u2019s fellow panelist, former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfield, weighed in on the dispute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If this was the only impulsive, reckless, you know driven by his own desire for self-aggrandizement, if this was only the only thing he had done on that front, then I would give you it’s just a building,” Bedingfield conceded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But it’s not. It’s part of a manner of governing that is tearing at some of the foundations, the institutional foundations in this country,” she argued. “And that’s scary.”<\/p>\n

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Similar to his panelists, the late-night host warned that Trump is “drunk with power” at another point in the show.<\/p>\n

“What could President Trump not do?” Maher asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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