Trump’s Late-Night Brag Trips Over His Own Deranged Trolling

Eric Lee / Reuters Donald Trump’s late-night Truth Social bragging quickly turned into an accidental self-own.

The 80-year-old president posted on his social media site just before 1 a.m.

Eastern time Thursday, showing off his tacky White House renovations.

He patted himself on the back for work on the building’s facade, and for adding a gigantic eyesore helipad on the South Lawn.

He argued that the front of the People’s House had “been fully restored to the Highest Level,” before crowing about “the Ballroom and Military Complex,” which, he bragged, “is on time, and on budget, and will make an unbelievably beautiful addition.” However, he added that the latter would be “the first [addition] since the West Wing in 1901, to the White House.” There are two factual problems with the president’s statement.

The West Wing was built in 1902, not 1901.

Also, the East Wing was substantially rebuilt and expanded in 1942, including a second-story addition, under Franklin D.

Roosevelt.

Trump ordered the demolition of the iconic structure last October to make way for his oversized ballroom.

FDR, a polio survivor who was wheelchair-bound, also installed an indoor therapeutic swimming pool in the West Terrace in 1933.

The next year, he reconstructed and expanded the West Wing, moving the Oval Office to the southeast corner of the building so it would directly overlook the Rose Garden.

He also added a second-floor “penthouse” story and enlarged subterranean office spaces.

Even the White House’s own website gives the dates of the initial construction and FDR’s East Wing work.

In fact, last October, Trump’s comms goons made a whole song and dance about the dates, as part of a petty troll on the president’s renovation critics.