The Rose Garden lawn has been paved with stone tiles. The Oval Office has been goldened with some signature "Trump touches". And now bulldozers are tearing away the facade of White House's East Wing - making way for a brand-new ballroom.

The White House East Wing was largely torn down in Trump’s ballroom construction. The White House said the next Trump-Putin meeting is indefinitely postponed. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel. North Carolina’s senate approved a new congressional map. The Trump administration is seeking to accept more Afrikaner refugees.

Donald Trump reminisced on his very first night in the White House while holding a fundraiser in the East Room on Wednesday, October 15. "To me, there’s nothing like the White House," the president told his guests,