Tearing down Trump's ballroom

They spent much of this week tearing their hair out over "King" Trump's White House construction project.

Trump's idea to demolish the East Wing and build a grand $250 million ballroom got saturation coverage on all the networks.

It was treated like a national sacrilege by the failing Trump-hate media that fewer and fewer Americans can stand to watch.

The left-wing media's biased reporters, pundits and partisan hacks cried all week because the "People's House" was being trashed by a power-mad narcissist who had no respect for tradition, no taste and no class, etc., etc.

As usual, the liberal media were too busy attacking Trump personally to offer perspective, history or political balance.

Trump's ballroom — though paid for by himself and private donors — became his latest crime against democracy. "A metaphor for what he's doing to our freedoms" became my favorite dumb Democrat talking point of the week.

The White House is a big, old historic and complex place. Like any home, it constantly needs to be repaired, restored or updated. And its temporary occupants have not exactly always taken tender care of its structure or household contents.

Any home-schooled kid or conservative media person could tell you that for two centuries a parade of presidents and first ladies have added, subtracted and rearranged the inside and outside of the White House to their tastes.

Sometimes they were minor, like Obama's basketball hoop, Clinton’s running track or Nixon's bowling alley and conversion of the White House swimming pool into a press briefing room.

Other times they were major remakes, like Andrew Jackson's addition of the North Portico, Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 construction of the West Wing, William Taft's addition of the first Oval Office, and FDR's adding of a second floor and indoor pool to the West Wing and later building the East Wing in 1942.

Truman completely rebuilt the interior of the White House. Jackie Kennedy received thunderous multimedia applause for redecorating the White House. And Ford made minor updates or improvements without being attacked by anyone.

Admittedly, but to no one's surprise, Trump's project is bigger, pricier and bolder than anyone else's. But Republicans in the White House always get rough treatment from the liberal media.

When Nancy and my father arrived in 1981, Nancy discovered to her horror the White House did not even have a complete set of china.

She had to mix different sets of dishes at State dinners. But after she ordered a $209,508 set of Lenox china, the liberal press ripped her for her luxurious tastes and called her "Queen Nancy."

It didn't matter to the media that she had raised every cent from private donations. A national recession was going on and she was a rich Republican.

If Trump weren't a Republican, or weren't Trump, he'd be praised to the heavens for creating a free, much-needed ballroom space for large events at the White House.

But instead, the liberal media, which never fails to find a negative angle for anything Trump does, jumped on the downsides.

They worried that wealthy donors were buying influence with the Trump administration, or that Trump was tearing down the White House walls to distract the country from the government shutdown or the Epstein Files.

The American public is no longer fooled by the legacy media's BS. They've watched Republicans being treated unfairly for more than half a century.

The liberal media never stopped saying my father was going to start World War III. They repeatedly called him a racist who hated the poor.

My father didn't lose sleep over what the enemy liberal media said. He didn't care.

Neither does Trump. But if he ever does find himself bothered by the media, he should take my father's advice: "Don't worry. The day you die they'll all tell you they loved you."

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Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press). He is the founder of the email service reagan.com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation.