President Donald Trump’s planned overhaul of the Kennedy Center adds the venue to a growing list of construction projects by the former property developer that, if carried out, would amount to the most extensive remaking of Washington's landscape in decades. In the 1950s, President Harry Truman gutted and rebuilt the White House. Under Joe Biden, the White House completed a $50 million rebuild of the Situation Room in the West Wing. He tore down the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom that, at 90,000 square feet, would dwarf the old executive mansion. He is pondering a renovation of the West Wing of the White House as well as a redo of Dulles International Airport 30 miles from downtown Washington.

Source: The Telegraph February 03, 2026 06:18 UTC