If I wrote a novel about a compromised POTUS who was being blackmailed by foreign interests to damage the country, and I had him literally demolish part of the White House, my editor would tell me, "Isn't that metaphor a little TOO on the nose?"
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Chief Justice Allows Trump to Continue White House Ballroom Construction, for Now (Gift Article)
The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project has grown in size and scope, with the president’s lawyers saying it is intertwined with the renovation of an underground military bunker.