The Pot, the Kettle, and the Wrecking Ball

In 1942, during World War II, the East Wing was added to the White House to provide office space for the First Lady and her staff.

Eleanor Roosevelt needed real working offices. Unlike her predecessors, she wasn’t simply hosting teas and entertaining the wives of foreign dignitaries; she was running press conferences, traveling constantly, and operating like a cabinet-level official. The interior of the White House was already overburdened, so the powers that be decided to erect a temporary wartime structure.

As they dug the foundation, they used the construction as cover to secretly build a hardened underground bunker beneath it. That bunker later became the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), the place presidents go to plan all things wartime and, just as importantly, the place they go when everything else goes to shit.

Until very recently, the East Wing housed offices for the First Lady, the Social Secretary, and the White House Correspondence Office, and served as a historic public entryway for tours. The structure that once contained these offices and this entryway is no longer standing.

In September of 2025, construction began on Donald Trump’s ballroom. (We were reminded of this when reporters asked Trump how he felt about the assassination of his friend, Charlie Kirk.) For a few weeks, Trump was seen walking around the White House grounds in a hard hat and yelling from the tops of buildings to call attention to his historic construction project.

Then, on October 20, 2025, without word or warning, without proper permission, without notification to the parties responsible for the White House grounds, and likely with little notification to the people who actually worked in the building, the East Wing was demolished.

Meanwhile.

In early January 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice served grand-jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell related to his testimony before Congress about a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters buildings. Sources confirm that this probe is unprecedented—it’s the first time a sitting Fed chair has faced this kind of criminal inquiry—and it specifically focuses on whether his statements to the Senate about the cost and scope of the renovation were misleading.

Powell has publicly characterized the investigation as politically motivated and a threat to the Federal Reserve’s independence, arguing that the real dispute is over resistance to presidential pressure on interest-rate decisions. Major central bankers and economists have issued strong statements defending Fed autonomy in response.

Admittedly, I took the long way around, but my point is this: the guy who illegally, on his own, tore down the East Wing of the White House is criminally prosecuting the guy he put in charge of the Federal Reserve for doing a bad job renovating the Federal Reserve.

Shit in a bag and punch it.

That’s not the pot calling the kettle black; that’s the tiger telling the zebra, “Dude, you look ridiculous in those stripes.” WTF.

I'm just saying