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White House trolls Democrats over ballroom meltdown — adds cocaine, Clinton, Obama scandals to timeline
Biden cocaine discovery, Clinton impeachment, Obama controversies featured on White House website
By Emma Colton
Fox News
Published October 23, 2025
11:39am EDT
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is trolling Democrats over their objection to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom construction, launching an official timeline of the White House's history that includes top scandals that plagued former Democratic presidents' administrations.
The White House website as of Thursday includes a "major events timeline" of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., stretching back to 1791, when plans for the iconic building were first mapped out. The timeline includes a series of benchmarks such as the addition of the north portico from 1829 to 1830, and the addition of the Oval Office in 1909 under the Taft administration and the "total reconstruction" of the White House interior under the Truman administration.
The timeline also includes a handful of high-profile scandals that rocked previous Democratic administrations.
"2023: Cocaine Discovered," one slide on the White House's website reads. "During Biden’s administration, a U.S. Secret Service agent discovered a small, zippered plastic bag containing cocaine in the West Wing entrance lobby."
"Speculation has pointed to Hunter Biden, an admitted drug user," the slide continues. "Additional evidence includes a laptop, seized in 2019, which contains photos of frequent drug use alongside emails about foreign business dealings (Ukraine, China) involving his father, Joe, while he was Vice President."
Former President Bill Clinton's 1998 sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky and former President Barack Obama inviting a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House in 2012 also were included on the official timeline.
"1998: Bill Clinton Scandal," one slide reads. "President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, leading to White House perjury investigations. The Oval Office trysts fueled impeachment for obstruction."
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"2012: Muslim Brotherhood Visit," another slide reads. Obama hosts "member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that promotes Islamist extremism and has ties to Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by nearly a dozen nations."
Another slide takes issue with former President Joe Biden's administration recognizing International Transgender Day of Visibility on the same day as Easter in 2023. International Transgender Day of Visibility was created by activists more than 10 years ago and is celebrated each year on March 31, with the Biden administration acknowledging both holidays in 2024.
"2023-2024: The Biden/Harris administration hosts transexuals at the White House in 2023, and goes on to establish the 'The Transgender Day of Visibility' on the same day as Easter Sunday in 2024," the slide reads.
The White House's historical timeline was launched as Democrats, from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for constructing a ballroom at the White House. The 90,000-square-foot project is privately funded and will accommodate an estimated 650 seated guests, according to the White House.
"It’s not his house," Clinton wrote on X Tuesday morning. "It’s your house. And he’s destroying it."
"Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom," Warren added in her own criticism.
"I wanted to share this photo of my family standing by a historic part of the White House that was just torn down today by Trump," New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim posted to X Monday. "We didn’t need a billionaire-funded ballroom to celebrate America. Disgusting what Trump is doing."
The Trump administration has, meanwhile, celebrated that the new addition of the White House does not cost taxpayers, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt adding that presidents have long complained that the historic residence lacks a space to entertain large groups.
"Nearly every single president who’s lived in this beautiful White House behind me has made modernizations and renovations of their own," Leavitt said on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime" Tuesday. "In fact, presidents for decades — in modern times — have joked about how they wished they had a larger event space here at the White House, something that could hold hundreds more people than the current East Room and State Dining Room."
"President Obama even complained that, during his tenure, he had to hold a state dinner on the South Lawn and rent a very expensive tent."
Fox News Digital reached out to the respective offices of Clinton, Obama and Biden Thursday morning regarding the past controversies.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-trolls-democrats-over-ballroom-meltdown-adds-cocaine-clinton-obama-scandals-timeline
Trump freezes out Putin for lack of ‘enough action’ toward peace — future talks uncertain
A future meeting has not been entirely ruled out, according to White House
By Diana Stancy
Fox News
Published October 23, 2025
3:15pm EDT
President Donald Trump called off his meeting in Budapest, Hungary, with Russian President Vladimir Putin because he didn’t see enough progress toward peace — although a future summit hasn’t been ruled out, according to the White House.
While Trump and Putin spoke over the phone Oct. 16, plans for the meeting were scrapped after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday.
Trump "feels as though, unfortunately, from the Russian side as of late, he has not seen enough interest in enough action in terms of moving the ball forward toward peace," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday. "And so a meeting between these two leaders is not completely off the table. I think the president and the entire administration hopes that one day that can happen again, but we want to make sure that there's a tangible positive outcome out of that meeting, and that it's a good use of the president's time."
Trump also has signaled in recent days that his patience has worn thin with Russia, and his administration slapped stringent sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies Wednesday.
Specifically, the sanctions freeze all U.S.-linked assets from the two companies and bar U.S. citizens from engaging in any business with them.
In response, Putin called the sanctions an "unfriendly act," and warned that global oil prices could increase as a result. However, he also said that the sanctions would not majorly impact Moscow's economy.
While Trump routinely has said in recent months that he has pleasant conversations with Putin, he's also voiced frustration at the lack of progress made as he's sought to mediate an end to the conflict. Trump also said Tuesday that he didn't want to have a "wasted meeting" with Putin in Hungary.
"The president wants to see action, not just talk," Leavitt said. "And I think the president is extremely motivated by the success of his peace deal in the Middle East to get things done, and he wants this war to come to an end. He's been saying it now for nine months, being in office, and he's grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress from both sides of this war."
Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte Wednesday to address ongoing negotiations to end the conflict.
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters the meeting with Putin "didn’t feel right," and explained why he wasn’t interested in arming Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles like he’d previously suggested he might.
"There is a tremendous learning curve with the Tomahawk. It's a very powerful weapon, very accurate weapon," Trump said Wednesday. "And maybe that's what makes it so complex. But it will take a year. It takes a year of intense training to learn how to use it, and we know how to use it. And we're not going to be teaching other people. It will be just too far out into the future."
Meanwhile, Trump has voiced skepticism recently about whether Ukraine can win against Russia.
"They could still win it. I don’t think they will, but they could still win it," Trump told reporters Monday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-freezes-out-putin-lack-enough-action-toward-peace-future-talks-uncertain
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John Brennan rips ‘insecure’ Trump and ‘supplicant’ Jim Jordan after DOJ referral
The ex-CIA director sat down with Nicolle Wallace after the House Judiciary Committee referred him to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
Oct. 23, 2025
8:46 PM GMT+1
By Allison Detzel
MSNBC
The House Judiciary Committee has referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Brennan “knowingly made false statements” to Congress regarding the now-discredited Steele dossier and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
On Wednesday, Brennan joined Nicolle Wallace on “Deadline: White House” to respond to Jordan’s referral and Donald Trump’s wider campaign of retribution. Brennan called the move from Jordan “ludicrous,” and said the Republican congressman was “trying to get into the action of Trump’s revenge tour.”
“I have cooperated with all these inquiries and investigations,” the former Obama administration official said. “I have explained exactly what transpired during the Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Jim Jordan now, I think, is trying to twist my words and misrepresent and mischaracterize the facts as a way to play to and be a supplicant to Donald Trump.”
Brennan said Jordan was on a mission to “satisfy” the president by targeting the top critics of the administration, which he proudly counted himself among. “I have been outspoken when I see that Donald Trump is doing things wrong,” he told Wallace.
The former CIA director then turned his ire directly to Trump, whom he called a “very sensitive and insecure individual.”
“There’s something that is deeply flawed about Donald Trump,” he said. “In terms of his having to go after these enemies, even though he has enormous political power … still, he feels as though he has to vanquish his rivals, vanquish his opponents.”
Should the referral result in an indictment, Brennan said he was “prepared to respond in whatever way” he could to prove that “these are fallacious charges.”
Brennan said that although Trump’s retribution campaign made him “angry” and “sad” for the state of the country and its politics, the growing pushback has made him more hopeful.
“Sometimes I’m dispirited and disheartened,” he said. “At the same time, I feel motivated to be able to stand up, and I’m glad that other people are standing up as well. And I see that more and more people are starting to realize what Donald Trump is all about.”
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/john-brennan-doj-charges-jim-jordan-trump-retribution-rcna239400