When the White House East Wing was demolished this week -- with it went more than a century of American history. Home to the first lady's official office, a movie theater and even a hidden bunker underneath, the East Wing was leveled to make way for President Donald Trump's new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

Satellite photos taken by Planet depict the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for the planned Trump Ballroom.

The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including a walkway to the White House, has been turned into rubble.

Top Democrats and media figures condemned President Donald Trump's White House ballroom construction after crews bulldozed the East Wing on Monday.

The East Wing, the entrance to the White House for millions of Americans on official tours, the site of offices for every first lady for nearly half a century and the home of calligraphers who prepared thousands of invitations for White House state dinners, disappeared into a pile of rubble yesterday. It had stood for 123 years.

The demolition of the East Wing at the White House to make way for President Trump’s vision of a splashy, massive ballroom, is triggering an enormous outcry from critics — but for many who

Was a plaque quoting President Franklin D. Roosevelt about "a house owned by all the American people" torn down by the demolition of the East Wing of the White House? No, that's not true: The FDR quote is engraved