Stephen Miller on WH Construction: The Scandal Is How Democrats Have Scarred Our Country With Modern Art
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller appeared on Friday’s broadcast of “The Will Cain Show” on FOX News and responded to complaints about White House renovations.
STEPHEN MILLER: The scandal is how Democrats on the left have scarred the landscape of our country with grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness, that celebrates defacement. The tragedy is a political party and a movement that has ripped down our statues, our monuments, our holidays, our heroes, our heritage. The Republican Party under President Trump celebrates beauty again and beautification again. Just as President Trump has beautified Washington, D.C., scraping off the graffiti that has been all over our nation’s capital, been all over Union Station, our areas of transit and work and recreation, now he’s repairing, finally, an area of the White House that has been left in disrepair for decades. The East Wing, which importantly is not part of the White House, it is not part of the White House. It was a cheaply built add-on structure in the mid-20th century, which houses offices, is not a residence. Nobody lives there, is badly in need of refurbishment, repair and renovation. The White House also desperately needs and has long needed a place to hold large events for Americans, for visitors, for visiting delegations befitting the greatest nation in the world. As I’m sure you know and you’ve seen, your viewers have seen, in the past when large events were held at the White House, they had to erect a makeshift tent in the mud at great expense, build it up, then tear it down over and over and over again. So every time Obama held a big event at the White House, what would he do? Build a tent, fill it up, tear it down. That’s absurd. We’re the United States of America. We have to put a hold of events at the people’s house in the United States Capitol. And very importantly, President Trump is making sure it’s in the neoclassical design around which our nation’s architecture has long been directed. Up until again recently, when we begin seeing these modern art structures, these brutalist structures and these many other buildings that have been horrible and depressing to look at.
