BREAKING: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt throws jet fuel on the White House demolition scandal by calling the backlash “fake outrage” and accusing all of us of being “jealous” of Trump’s hideous gaudy ballroom.

We don’t know about you, but there’s nothing “fake” about our outrage over this desecration…

“Are the Democrats jealous that Trump is building this big beautiful ballroom?” Fox News hack Jesse Watters asked Leavitt.

“It certainly appears that way Jesse and I believe there’s a lot of fake outrage right now because nearly every single president who has lived in this beautiful White House behind me has made modernizations and renovations of their own,” said Leavitt.

“And in fact, presidents for decades in the modern time have quipped about they wish they had a larger event space here at the White House that can hold hundreds more people than the current East Room and state dining rooms can,” she went on.

“In fact, President Obama notably complained that during his tenure he had to host a state visit on the South Lawn and get a very expensive tent,” she continued.

The crucial difference here is that President Obama didn’t decide to unilaterally begin demolition in order to erect a monument to his own ego. Donald Trump did not obtain Congressional approval for this project nor did he seek the approval of the American people before knocking down a section of their house.

“If you talk to journalists who have covered the White House for decades, as I do here every single day, they will also tell you that administration after administration have publicly and privately spoken about the need for a larger event space,” Leavitt continued.

“So while many presidents have privately dreamt about this, it’s President Trump who is actually doing something about it and he is the Builder-in-Chief in large part he was reelected back to the People’s House because he’s good at building things!” she went on. “He has done it his entire life, his entire career. And construction is a process at the end. The East Wing, which is an entirely separate structure from the Executive Mansion you see behind me, will be more modern and beautiful than ever.”

“And then on top of that, the White House is going to have a big, beautiful ballroom for generations of Americans to come,” she said. “And the best part of it all, it’s not a dime of the taxpayers’ money. The president has worked hard to privately fund this entire project from start to finish.”

The fact that this $250 million project is privately funded is perhaps the most concerning piece of all. The 90,000-square-foot building — which will “nearly double the footprint of the main building and its East and West wings” — is being funded by “donations” from powerful companies like Apple, Amazon, and Lockheed Martin. Obviously, these corporations aren’t spending this money for the fun of it, they’re hoping to extract favorable policies from the White House. This is blatant pay-to-play bribery and every American should be outraged.