Clinton criticized over 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 while trying to criticize the president. Donald Trump To build a ballroom in the White House.

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

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The Clinton family said in a 2001 statement: “The gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the offices of the White House Hosts and Secretary.” “Of course, if the White House now determines that there has been a cataloging error… any object in question will be returned.”

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Hillary Clinton added at the time: “All of these items were considered gifts to us.” “That’s what the White House’s permanent record has shown…but if there was a different intent, we would certainly respect the donor’s intent.”

Conservatives and Trump supporters were quick to remind former First Lady Hillary Clinton of the 2021 furniture controversy with former President Bill Clinton. (Getty Images)

Trump announced Monday that construction has begun on the hall, months after the president floated the planned project to modernize the White House. The White House stated that the project does not cost taxpayers and is privately funded.

The 90,000-square-foot project is expected to accommodate about 650 seated guests, according to The white house.

“I am pleased to announce that construction has begun on the new, large, beautiful White House Ballroom,” Trump said on Truth Social. “The East Wing is being completely updated as part of this process, is completely separate from the White House itself, and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete!”

Photos of a demolition crew dismantling the facade of the East Wing circulated on social media and in news reports. Clinton responded to the construction in a message to rally voters against Trump’s project.

“It’s not his house” Hillary Clinton wrote in 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 demolition of East Wing facade to build Trump ballroom,” accompanied by a photo of a demolition crew.

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Other Clinton critics pointed to former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with an intern in their social media responses, and others reframed the Lincoln Bedroom controversy.

Bill Clinton and his administration came under scrutiny in the 1990s for hosting donors at sleepovers at the White House, specifically the Lincoln Bedroom, in exchange for campaign donations. The president at the time denied selling the room for 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. (Associated Press)

“Yes, between selling nights in the Lincoln Bedroom to donors and her husband’s tutelage to interns in the Oval Office, if anyone treats the White House as sacred it’s the Clintons,” conservative author Mark Hemingway said. Written on X.

“The hall will be amazing… unlike your work in Haiti.” Eric Trump She responded to Clinton.

“Hey Hillary, remind us, weren’t you the one who walked out with $28,000 worth of White House furniture when you left?” Conservative influencer Penny Johnson published in X. “And your husband who desecrated the Oval Office during his presidency? President Trump is funding a beautiful new ballroom out of his own pocket.”

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

“There is literally a Clinton scandal for every tweet she sends,” the Missouri lawmaker said. Eric Burleson posted on X, Accompanied by a screenshot of a news report about the Clintons receiving an estimated $190,000 in gifted White House furniture upon leaving the office.

“Clinton would never defile the White House,” former Trump staffer Alex Pfeiffer wrote.

“I remember when the Clintons stole the popular furniture and tableware,” a columnist said Posted by David Harsanyi.

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“Almost every president has done White House renovations including the Clintons who did a major House Beautiful spread in 1993 around their home — the facade of the East Wing is just a facade, not part of the original structure and was added in 1942 by Franklin D. Roosevelt,” a conservative columnist said. Written by Salina Zito.

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

“What her husband did inside our ‘home’ is the real abomination.” Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell Published to X.

The hall’s construction comes after Trump made other updates to the White House, including installing two 88-foot American flags and overhauling the White House Rose Garden.

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“President Trump is working 24/7 to make America great again, including his historic facelift of the White House, at no taxpayer expense,” White House spokesman Davis Engel told Fox News Digital on Tuesday when asked about the post by Clinton and other Democrats criticizing the construction of the hall. “These long-overdue improvements will benefit generations of future presidents and American visitors to the House.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Hillary Clinton’s office Wednesday morning about the matter but did not immediately receive a response.