Overview
- The View hosts on ABC criticized the planned White House ballroom on Tuesday, centering on a new military bunker beneath it.
- The project would replace a 1940s-era “doomsday” shelter with an updated secure facility under the East Wing site.
- Sunny Hostin called the plan disconcerting and floated unproven ideas about billionaires using the bunker, which have not been substantiated.
- Guest Whitney Cummings warned that public talk about the site could aid enemies and contrasted it with the long-secret Greenbrier bunker built in the Eisenhower era.
- Coverage notes the details surfaced through preservation lawsuits, and the White House press secretary has attacked The New York Times’ critical report.