Clinton criticized for furniture controversy after ballroom comments

Conservatives and Trump supporters were quick to remind former first lady Hillary Clinton of her 2021 furniture controversy with former President Bill Clinton as she attempted to blast President Donald Trump for building a ballroom at the White House.

“At least he didn’t steal the silverware,” the Texas senator said. Ted Cruz posted on X Tuesday lambasting Clinton.

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“Gifts did not leave the White House without approval from the offices of the White House Bailiff and Curator,” the Clintons said in a 2001 statement. “Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred…any item in question will be returned.”

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“All of these items were considered gifts,” Hillary Clinton added at the time. “That’s what the White House permanent records show… But if there is a different intent, we will certainly honor the donor’s intent.”

Conservatives and Trump supporters were quick to remind former first lady Hillary Clinton of her 2021 furniture controversy with former President Bill Clinton. (Getty Images)

Trump announced Monday that construction on the ballroom had begun, following months of the president breaking ground on the planned White House modernization project. The project costs taxpayers nothing and is privately funded, the White House reported.

The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project is expected to accommodate approximately 650 seated guests, according to the White House.

“I am pleased to announce that work has been begun on the White House grounds to build the new, large, beautiful White House Ballroom,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Completely separate from the White House itself, the East Wing is being completely modernized as part of this process, and will look better than ever when completed!”

Photos of the demolition team dismantling the facade of the east wing circulated on social media and in the media. Clinton responded to the construction in a message rallying voters against Trump’s plan.

“This is not his house,” Hillary Clinton wrote on X Tuesday morning. “It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”

The social media post included a screenshot of the Washington Post report, “White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom,” accompanied by a photo of a demolition crew.

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Other Clinton critics highlighted former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with an intern in their social media responses, and others rehashed the Lincoln Room controversy.

Bill Clinton and his administration came under scrutiny in the 1990s for hosting donors for overnight stays at the White House, particularly in the Lincoln Room, allegedly in exchange for campaign donations. The president at the time denied selling the room to donations.

The White House has begun demolishing part of the East Wing to build the ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to add to the building. (The Associated Press)

“Yes, between selling nights in Lincoln’s room to donors and her husband’s tutelage of Oval Office interns, if anyone considered the WH sacred, it was the Clintons,” said conservative writer Mark Hemingway. written the.

“The ballroom will be spectacular…unlike your work in Haiti,” Eric Trump » replied Clinton.

“Hello Hillary, remind us, weren’t you the one who left with $28,000 worth of White House furniture when you moved?” conservative influencer Benny Johnson posted on X. “What about your husband who desecrated the Oval Office during his presidency? President Trump is financing a magnificent new ballroom out of his own pocket.”

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President Donald Trump announced on October 20, 2025, that construction on the ballroom had begun. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

“There is literally a Clinton scandal for every tweet she sends,” the Missouri representative said. Eric Burlison posted on X, accompanied by a screenshot of a news report about the Clintons taking about $190,000 in donated furniture to the White House when they left office.

‘A Clinton would never soil the White House,’ ex-Trump staffer says Alex Pfeiffer wrote.

“I remember when the Clintons stole people’s furniture and dishes,” columnist David Harsanyi posted.

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“Nearly every White House president has renovated the White House, including the Clintons who reported on theirs extensively in House Beautiful in 1993 – the East Wing facade is just a facade, not part of the original structure and added in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt,” conservative columnist. Salena Zito wrote.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“What her husband did in ‘our house’ is a true abomination,” Dagen McDowell of Fox Business posted on X.

The construction of the ballroom comes after Trump made other improvements to the White House, including the installation of two 88-foot-tall American flags and an overhaul of the White House Rose Garden.

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“President Trump is working 24/7 to make America great again, including his historic beautification of the White House, at no cost to taxpayers,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital on Tuesday when asked about Clinton and other Democrats’ messaging criticizing the ballroom construction. “These long-needed improvements will benefit generations of future presidents and American visitors to the People’s House.”

Fox News Digital contacted Hillary Clinton’s office Wednesday morning, but did not immediately receive a response.