Jill Biden Describes Her East Wing Grief From ‘Every Blow of the Wrecking Ball’
The former first lady in a wide-ranging interview also talks about what happened in the 2024 presidential debate and her husband’s decision to step out of the race while promoting her new memoir.
The White House East Wing used to be situated on the east side of the Executive Residence, connected by the East Colonnade. A small building in stature, it stood opposite of the West Wing on the complex and served as the official public entrance into the White House and Office of the First Lady before President Donald Trump demolished it in October of 2025. But Dr. Jill Biden, who was the last first lady to work her husband’s full term from the space carved out for future first ladies by Rosalynn Carter in 1977, compares the destruction of the symbolic structure to that of stalked prey.
Ahead of the release of Biden’s second memoir View from the East Wing on Tuesday, the former first lady in a CBS Sunday Morning interview was asked what she thought of President Donald Trump’s White House East Wing destruction to make way for a ballroom.
“What do you think I think?” she …
