Actor William Daniels is expressing his distaste for President Donald Trump’s controversial updates to the White Home with a poignant throwback.
On Monday, Daniels shared a photograph of himself and two co-stars in full costume from Broadway’s “1776,” through which he portrayed John Adams. In 1970, the musical ― which depicts the occasions main as much as the signing of the Declaration of Independence ― turned the primary ever to be staged in its entirety on the White Home, then occupied by President Richard Nixon.
“We performed ‘1776’ in the beautiful East Room when Nixon was in the White House. He was very gracious even though none of us had voted for him,” Daniels, finest recognized by some for his portrayal of George Feeny on “Boy Meets World,” wrote within the caption. “The current president has ripped a piece of history from our lives and we mustn’t take this lightly.”
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The 98-year-old’s publish was a pointed dig at Trump’s plans for a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom adjoining to the White Home. Final week, building crews demolished the whole thing of the White Home’s East Wing to make manner for the challenge, drawing outrage from historic preservationists.
The East Room, the place Daniels and his castmates carried out “1776” some 55 years in the past, is a part of the White Home’s Govt Residence and due to this fact not believed to have been demolished. Nonetheless, Trump has cited the comparatively small measurement of the East Room, which has a capability of about 200 folks, in outlining his imaginative and prescient for the ballroom, now set to reportedly accommodate 999. He instructed final week that the ballroom might be related to the East Room.
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“We’re going to build a room that’s going to be able to hold literally the inauguration if we want,” Trump stated earlier this month, based on USA As we speak.
The ballroom’s shifting particulars and before-and-after pictures displaying the dimensions of the East Wing demolition have additionally been condemned by many distinguished Democrats, who level to Trump’s earlier claims that the development “wouldn’t interfere with the current building.”
The president, nevertheless, has rejected accusations that he hasn’t made the total extent of the challenge clear, telling the BBC and different shops final week, “I think we’ve been more transparent than anyone’s ever been.”
