Chelsea Clinton grew up in White House. She's 'unsettled' by Trump renovations.

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Source: USA Today

Oct. 23, 2025 | Updated Oct. 24, 2025, 7:16 a.m. ET


When Chelsea Clinton lived in the White House as a 90s tween, she knew it was the “People’s House.”

Now, the 45-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is "unsettled" by President Donald Trump tearing down the historic building's East Wing to make way for a $300 million ballroom.

In a USA TODAY op-ed, Clinton concedes that past presidents and first ladies have made changes to the White House that “added elements for efficiency, for comfort, for aesthetics.” But she said there is no evidence that the president consulted with experts to preserve the history and integrity of the building.

“With less than a year until we celebrate our country’s 250th anniversary, it is unsettling that such substantial alterations to the 225-year-old People’s House are being undertaken without a historic-preservation review and seemingly without the involvement of any historians, and I would love to be proven wrong here,” Clinton writes.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/23/chelsea-clinton-unsettled-trump-white-house-renovation/86859510007/

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Article updated (and corrects a blunder figure).

Original article -

Oct. 23, 2025, 6:14 p.m. ET


When Chelsea Clinton lived in the White House as a 90s tween, she knew it was the “People’s House.”

Now, the 45-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is "unsettled" by President Donald Trump tearing down the historic building's East Wing to make way for a $300,000 ballroom.

In a USA TODAY op-ed, Clinton concedes that past presidents and first ladies have made changes to the White House that “added elements for efficiency, for comfort, for aesthetics.” But she said there is no evidence that the president consulted with experts to preserve the history and integrity of the building.

“With less than a year until we celebrate our country’s 250th anniversary, it is unsettling that such substantial alterations to the 225-year-old People’s House are being undertaken without a historic-preservation review and seemingly without the involvement of any historians, and I would love to be proven wrong here,” Clinton writes.

[chowder66]

1. USA Today should um tack on a few more zeros there.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It's the media's "deer in headlights" response to what is going on

that THEY helped to facilitate.

[TheRickles]

4. I'm sure they'll print a front page correction ASAP.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. And just like that... they fixed it. Will add the updated version!

[yardwork]

11. Her entire statement is stilted.

Democrats MUST start using plain language!

[Deminpenn]

15. Unsettled? There are so many better words

Appalled, outraged, furious, stunned, even gob-smacked would be better choices.

[Torchlight]

12. Sounds serious

Good luck

[mwooldri]

5. The quotation marks IMO are on the wrong word.

She's unsettled by Trump "renovations".

There, I fixed it.

[llmart]

7. Yes.

"Renovations" are when you change out the drapes and remove wallpaper, not take a goddamned bulldozer to the entire structure.

[twodogsbarking]

8. So when will ICE visit her home?

[Farmer-Rick]

9. He is NOT going to stop with just the East Wing

He's going to go for the rest of it too. He'll just wait a year. Perhaps during the actual 250 year anniversary he'll start the bulldozers and crush the remaining smaller White House. If he's still alive by then.

Maybe he won't wait at all and tomorrow start demolishing the main structure. Why Not? Who's going to stop him? Congress can't do anything. The Supremes are busy kissing his huge butt. So, yeah, the rest will go too.

He's always said he hated the White House. He said it was ugly. He thinks he's king and he's going to destroy our White House like he destroyed our democracy.

[BradBo]

10. "Unsettled",really? WTF.

[Bluetus]

13. So, Chelsea has been taking "concern lessons" from Susan Collins?

Seriously, what does it take for people to have some real passion, some real outrage?

Here is a guy who just tore down 1/3 of the People's house with no approvals, no appropriations, no public debate, no concern for historic preservation, none of that, and the only emotion is "unsettled"?

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Install a psychopath, expect destruction.

8 Possible Signs of Psychopathic Tendencies
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201910/8-possible-signs-of-psychopathic-tendencies

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[JoseBalow]

16. Unsettled? May I offer you a bicarbonate?

[Intractable]

17. He wants everyone to be "unsettled." The more chaos, the more he can steal.

[electric_blue68]

19. Yeah, I don't get why Chelsea would use such a mild descriptive word...

When it it is such a wanton act of destruction!

Unless, as it's just occurring to me now- if she's really outraged but hiding it, maybe she just doesn't want to be dumped on by Trump, or other Republicans, considering all the flack, and worse her parents received! Plus insults at herself as a kid/tween. (I forget how old she was at the start of their term)

[sheshe2]

20. Could we please hold off on the condemnation of Chelsea's choice of words here.

She is a reserved young woman and who can blame her after the vitriol hurled at her by the GOP when she was just an awkward kid of 13.