The White House. Nothing symbolizes America more than where the president lives and works. It is one of the most recognized structures on the planet, a symbol of American power, democratic values, and leadership of the free world. There Donald Trump found the ultimate expression for his angst—he demolished the East Wing. All of it. He broke promises that his golden, gilded outsized ballroom would not harm the integrity of the beloved structure. After all, he said “I love the building and would never harm it.” The East Wing never had a chance, razed to the ground looking like a Kyiv edifice after a Russian missile tore through its heart. Welcome to the East Ding.

This wasn’t Trump’s first White House target. In August the venerated Rose Garden, hallowed ground forever linked to First Lady Jackie Kennedy, received the Jimmy Hoffa treatment. Trump buried it under cement. It now looks like an outdoor college cafeteria in California. No sign of the body anywhere. If this is love to Donald Trump, I pray for Melania.

He boasts his wealthy friends paid for the garish ballroom replacing the East Wing, as if now declaring the People’s House reborn as the Oligarchs’ House assuages us all. 99% of Americans are now fleeced out of an emotional share of the famed building. What quid pro quos will be paid to these “benefactors” for Trump’s wish fulfillment to own the residence he now occupies are unknown, but Don Trumpleone is keenly aware how to repay tribute and return a favor.

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said recently on MSNBC that “This is quintessential Donald Trump. If you look at Donald Trump’s history in the 80s, he despises historical preservation.” The most infamous was Trump’s trashing the historical Bonwit Teller building, a national landmark to make way for his Trump Tower, very much the forerunner of the East Wing travesty. He promised objets d’arts, including friezes, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art but then destroyed them, as reported in the book Art and Crime, recently cited by Artnet. This is not news to most New Yorkers.

So, when your young child or grandchild asks, “Who broke the White House?” Will your shame allow you to answer honestly: “It was the president of the United States, Donald Trump.”

For, obliterating the East Wing and Rose Garden into extinction, and rampaging through the White House like Jack Nicholson’s Joker vandalizing the precious works of Gotham’s Flugelheim Art Museum, TGBL awards three stingers to President Trump, a man deserving nothing less.