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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom

District Attorney Larry Krasner stated he wants to destroy the White House ballroom and keep a piece as a souvenir.

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Artist renderings and diagrams of the new White House East Wing and Ballroom are shown on Feb. 17.AP

What this story says

  • Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stated he wants to destroy the White House ballroom and keep a piece of it as a paperweight.
  • Krasner made these remarks at the annual slavery commiseration at the President’s House in Philadelphia.
  • He suggested the ballroom's destruction would be an 'official ceremony' and that pieces would be sold to repay taxpayers.
  • Krasner also called President Donald Trump a 'pain in the ass' and 'the embodiment of hate, ignorance, and depriving people of their vote and education.'

Who covered it

Left 15%(4)Centre 4%(1)Right 81%(21)

Percentages are shares of the 26 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 2 of the 28 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

61/100

Hype

68/100

28 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

Only 4 of the 26 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said he intends to 'blow up' the White House ballroom and keep a piece of it as a paperweight. Krasner made these statements on Tuesday at the annual slavery commiseration event held at the President’s House in Philadelphia. He described the potential demolition as an 'official ceremony' and suggested that fragments of the ballroom would be sold to recoup its construction costs for taxpayers.

Krasner also offered strong criticism of President Donald Trump, calling him a 'pain in the ass.' According to The Blaze, Krasner stated that Trump is 'the embodiment of hate, ignorance, and depriving people of their vote and education.' The remarks were made in the context of a dispute over an exhibit about enslaved Black people at the President's House, which the Trump administration had appealed a federal judge's order to reinstate.

Disagreement on Trump administration's actions regarding slavery exhibit

The Daily Kos reported that a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate an exhibit about enslaved Black people, an order the administration appealed. The outlet stated that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later sided with the administration, leading the National Park Service to remove materials from the exhibit. The Blaze reported that a federal court sided with the president in June regarding the dispute over the slavery exhibit, but activists intended to continue the legal fight.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention the federal judge's order to the Trump administration to put back an exhibit about enslaved Black people, which the Daily Kos reported the administration appealed. The left-rated reports and the centre-rated report do not mention Krasner's comments about Trump being 'the embodiment of hate, ignorance, and depriving people of their vote and education.'

Tags:#LarryKrasner#DonaldTrump#WhiteHouse#Philadelphia#Politics

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 26 Aug 2026, 21:15, and will add the sides that appear.

How other outlets pictured it

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Soros-backed DA vows to 'blow up' White House ballroom, calls Trump a 'pain in the a**'
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • The left-rated reports from Daily Kos and NBC Philadelphia focused on Krasner's remarks about blowing up the White House ballroom and keeping a piece as a paperweight. Daily Kos also detailed the dispute over the exhibit about enslaved Black people at the President's House, noting a federal judge's order for its reinstatement and the subsequent appeal by the Trump administration. NBC Philadelphia's report also included Krasner's statement about keeping a piece of the ballroom as a paperweight.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The centre-rated report from Political Wire highlighted Krasner's statement about keeping a piece of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom as a paperweight after it is 'blown up.' The report quoted Fox News as the source for this information.

Right

21 rated outlets

  • Seventeen right-rated reports led with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's vow to 'blow up' the White House ballroom and keep a piece as a paperweight. Many of these reports, including those from The Blaze, Conservative Review, Newsmax, and Breitbart, also mentioned that Krasner called President Donald Trump a 'pain in the ass' and 'the embodiment of hate, ignorance, and depriving people of their vote and education.' Several reports, such as those from The Blaze and Conservative Review, noted that Krasner received significant donations from George Soros. The Blaze also mentioned Krasner's past statements about hunting down Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and blaming the NRA for a mass shooting.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom?
Of the 26 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 15% are rated left, 4% are rated centre, 81% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 28. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom left or right?
The story itself is neither. What can be counted is who has covered it, and 81% of the 26 rated outlets on it are rated right — so far this is a story carried mostly by the right. Coverage is still arriving and that can change, which is why the figure is dated rather than fixed.
Is the coverage of Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom biased?
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom is one event reported by 28 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Vows to Demolish White House Ballroom?
28 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner say about the White House ballroom?
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stated he wants to 'blow up' the White House ballroom and keep a piece of it as a paperweight. He suggested this would happen in about 10 to 15 years as an 'official ceremony,' with pieces sold to repay taxpayers.
Where and when did Larry Krasner make these remarks?
Larry Krasner made these remarks on Tuesday at the annual slavery commiseration event held at the President’s House in Philadelphia. The event focused on an exhibit about enslaved Black people.
What else did Krasner say about President Trump?
Krasner called President Donald Trump a 'pain in the ass.' He also stated that Trump is 'the embodiment of hate, ignorance, and depriving people of their vote and education.'

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