About two months ago, I brought you this report where I told you massive underground construction was actually being done under what will become the new East Wing Ballroom of the White House. That report is here in case you missed it: Is This The REAL Reason They Tore Down The East Wing of the White House? Of course all the same losers who hate-post on every article I write were in there calling it a conspiracy theory and saying how wrong I was. The only problem? Today CNN 100% confirmed our reporting.  Nice to see them catch up two months later, but hey I'll take it! As usual, we're not 100% but we try to be close and we're often early with our reporting.  Which is why over 5+ million people each month trust us to bring them the news -- and sometimes the news BEFORE the news! Check this out: ??? WHITE HOUSE QUIETLY REBUILDS SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER BENEATH EAST WING So while everyone’s arguing about Trump’s giant White House ballroom, the actual action is happening underground. They quietly tore out the old Cold War bunker under the East Wing and are rebuilding… pic.twitter.com/2DA5YjpSHM — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2026 Here's a quick summary of an article just posted by CNN and then below that I will post a portion of the full article: Key High Points Historical Context The original underground bunker was secretly built in 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a bomb shelter following Pearl Harbor, disguised as part of the East Wing extension. It evolved over decades into a fortified complex, including the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) — a hardened command center designed to withstand nuclear or major attacks, with self-contained features like beds, food/water supplies, backup power/air/water, secure comms, and an evacuation route. Past Uses The space (described as "tomb-like" or like a 1940s submarine) hosted high-profile moments, such as Dick Cheney's operations on 9/11 (including authorizing fighter jets), planning Biden's secret Ukraine trip, and even reviewing controversial media. It was rarely used by presidents in recent decades due to outdated infrastructure. Current Demolition and Secrecy Demolition of the East Wing (including first ladies' offices and colonnade) began in October 2025 to clear space for Trump's ballroom. Sources indicate the entire dated underground complex — including the PEOC and related facilities for military/Secret Service — has likely been dismantled ("all of that seems to be gone"). Rebuilding Plans A highly classified project is underway to replace/reimagine the bunker with modern technology to address evolving threats (e.g., nuclear, chemical/biological, electromagnetic pulses, or other attacks). Details remain secret, with involvement likely from the military, Secret Service, contractors like Clark Construction, and architects Shalom Baranes. Official Hints and Justifications White House officials (e.g., Joshua Fisher at a National Capital Planning Commission meeting) cited the "top-secret" underground work as the reason for bypassing standard approvals and starting demolition early. In court filings, the administration argued halting underground work would "endanger national security." Trump has mentioned military involvement in the project. Cost and Funding Note The ballroom's above-ground costs are rising (from $200M to $400M estimates) and privately funded via donors, but any new underground security infrastructure would be taxpayer-funded. Redundant presidential protection systems exist elsewhere in the interim. CNN confirms our reporting was accurate: The president of the United States ordered the secret construction of a secure underground facility at the White House and built a new extension of the East Wing on top. It was 1941, and Franklin D. Roosevelt had been encouraged to build a bomb shelter at the White House in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, “no public acknowledgment was made of there being a bomb shelter under construction, only the East Wing,” according to White House Historical Association historian Bill Seale. More than 80 years later, the East Wing is again under construction in preparation for President Donald Trump’s sprawling new ballroom, and the historic, if dated, underground facilities have been dismantled. And once again, there’s a lot of secrecy around plans to rebuild the bunker. Little is publicly known about the construction taking place in what was once a secret submarine-like bunker, which included the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, and the underground infrastructure around it. The space has been used for everything from watching a parody film the Nixon administration deemed pornographic and wanted killed, to planning former President Joe Biden’s clandestine trip to Ukraine. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney was evacuated to the space moments before an attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The space is now likely being reimagined and replaced with new technology to counter evolving threats, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. But there has been very little acknowledgment that the project even exists. During a recent meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission where the ballroom was discussed, White House director of management and administration Joshua Fisher said broadly that the overall ballroom project will “(enhance) mission critical functionality,” “make necessary security enhancements” and “(deliver) resilient, adaptive infrastructure aligned with future mission needs.” Fisher was pressed on why the project broke with precedent by starting the demolition process without the commission’s approval — and he indicated that the “top-secret” work taking place underground was the motivation. “There are some things regarding this project that are, frankly, of top-secret nature that we are currently working on. That does not preclude us from changing the above-grade structure, but that work needed to be considered when doing this project, which was not part of the NCPC process,” he said. The White House declined CNN’s request for comment. But in a court filing last week for a case seeking to stop the East Wing construction, the White House defended the process, saying that halting the underground construction would “endanger national security and therefore impair the public interest.” It said the reasoning for this was described in a “classified declaration” attached to the case. A ‘tomb-like’ shelter Though Roosevelt’s construction was initially envisioned as a bomb shelter, underground facilities beneath the East Wing evolved over time to serve multiple functions. Those who enter through the East Wing would go down a few levels and then walk through a massive, protected vault-style door to enter a self-contained bunker with low ceilings that included beds, shelf-stable foods, water, and other supplies, plus secure communications to the outside world, according to a source who has been inside the space and was not authorized to speak on the record. The underground space also included the PEOC, a centralized command and control facility for the president and his staff that was fortified to withstand a potential nuclear explosion or other major attack. The PEOC works in tandem with the Situation Room, said Jonathan Wackrow, a former US Secret Service agent and CNN contributor. “The Situation Room is a much more focused watch center that will feed information over to the PEOC, but because it is a complex that’s in the West Wing, it is secure to a point, but it’s not a hardened facility,” he said. “The PEOC is used during emergencies. It’s not something that everybody goes to,” he added. “The Situation Room is used almost by the whole of government, 24 hours-a-day.” The PEOC has been depicted on the silver screen with varying degrees of accuracy — most recently in the 2025 thriller “A House of Dynamite,” along with 2013’s “Olympus Has Fallen,” which depicted a terror attack on the White House. The “tomb-like” space was visited by Roosevelt only once, according to Seale, the historian. In subsequent years, “an inspection of the bomb shelter became a first-day custom for all incoming presidents who followed, until the last twenty years, when the relevance of the shelter was lessened,” he wrote in 2011. A second source familiar with the space granted anonymity to speak freely described the underground complex as “a very complicated submarine that was built in the 1940s — a self-contained unit, [with] separate power backups, separate water backups, separate air filtration.” “But all the infrastructure is 1940s infrastructure,” they added. Here was our original report: Is This The REAL Reason They Tore Down The East Wing of the White House? I have something really fascinating to share with you about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House and the construction of the new ballroom. A theory about something much larger that you're not being told about. As you know if you've been with us for a while, I never write an article based solely on some random Tik Tok video I found online, and I'm not about to start now. But I will use a random Tik Tok video that I find really interesting and use it as a jumping off point to bring you a fully-researched report. So that's what we're going to do right now. Start here and watch this absolutely fascinating video and then I'll break it all down for you and tell you what I've found: TRANSCRIPT: So I grew up in the Washington, DC area, so I've always known the history about why the East Wing of the White House was built, which got me to wondering, why tear it down? And specifically, why now? So if you wanna hear my working theory slash this is genuinely turning into a Jason Bourne movie right before our very eyes, um, go get some coffee and come on back. So I'm gonna not bury the lead on this one, guys. This is not a normal White House facelift. This particular demolition is completely blacked out. So back in 1942, during, like, the thick of World War II, right? FDR didn't just want, like, more space for his staff. He built the East Wing as cover, and for nearly 100 years, what has sat below the East Wing of the White House is the PEOC, which is the Presidential Emergency Operations Command Center, a secret bomb-proof bunker tucked just under the White House, which is connected by underground tunnels, yes, this is true, with the Treasury Department, the West Wing, and several other areas. Upstairs, Eleanor Roosevelt's office, and the perfect camouflage. Down below, reinforced concrete, filtered air, and direct lines to the Pentagon in case DC ever came under attack. Fast-forward 8 decades and now you have this. So this is satellite imagery of where the East Wing used to sit. As you can see, it was not only touched, it has been completely demolished. Now, you have to remember that, for security reasons, the airspace around the White House, called P-56A, is one of the most restricted airspaces in the world. It's inside the larger DC special flight rules area, a total no-fly zone. No drones, no civilian choppers, nothing below 18,000 feet, unless it's federal or military. And the president, he has total control over every aircraft cleared to fly in that area. Then comes the gag order. On 20 October, they sent a notice to the Treasury Department, which is the building, if you'll look right here, that is sitting directly to the right of the East Wing if you're looking at where, where the East Wing used to be. It basically overlooks the East Wing of the White House. So the Trump team sent a memo over to the staff at the Treasury Department saying, "Do not share photos of the White House, East Wing demolition, or construction activities at all." Not allowed to do it. No explanation, just silence. And if that's not enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, worry about the fact that on 23 October, the Secret Service came in and closed down Ellipse Park, which you'll see right here is where basically you have journalists who kinda stage there and they take pictures of the comings and goings of what's going on at the White House. Not anymore they don't, because the Secret Service closed the park. Guys, what we have is no air access, no line-of-sight access, no press access, and you also have to remember that the- there are federal rules about how tall buildings can be in DC. So there's no rooftop in the city where you can kinda peek over and see what's going on in the White House. That's not gonna happen there. So it is a total blackout, except for satellite imagery, which as you can see, told us that East Wing of the White House is now completely gone. So the White House originally announced these plans for this 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which is twice the size of the actual White House by the way, to seat 999 people back in July. But no construction equipment showed up until late October, coincidentally during a government shutdown, which is perfect timing, because when the government is shut down, the watchdogs go dark. No National Capital Planning Commission, no historic preservation reviews, no Section 106 consultations. And bonus round, since this project is being privately funded, Musk, Bezos, crypto billionaires, probably like the one that he just pardoned yesterday. Fun fact, it's shielded from FOIA requests, the Freedom of Information Act. Because it's being built on federal grounds, we would've had the right to make a FOIA request, but can't do it 'cause it's private donors. So whatever they tell us, where the money's coming from, we just have to take them at their word. Now, I want you guys to peel off the outside layer of the onion and remind yourself that that means that an undisclosed group of people is paying to build infrastructure that is going to sit below the White House indefinitely. And how about those Starlink dishes? The ones from Musk that were installed back in March. Until then, the White House relied on encrypted fiber optic legacy satellite uplinks, all routed through government networks. But of course, Starlink satellites changes that game. Now, the communications at the White House can beam directly to low-orbit satellites, bypassing traditional infrastructure. It means faster, harder to track, and less dependent federal telecom channels. And if those dishes are now tied into whatever's being built underground, that's an entirely new comms network, private, independent, and off-grid. What they're building is effectively a giant Faraday cage to protect You know, a Faraday cage protects you against all kinds of electronic attacks. Beneath the East Wing, basically a signal-proof shell. And guys, that's not for parties. That's for continuity of government when everything else goes dark. Yes, presidents have absolutely been shuttled down to the PEOC during incidents in the past, like 9/11. And that PEOC, again, is connected to the wider underground tunnels below DC, with everything from the West Wing, the Treasury, and some people even say the Capitol's underground tram. So this entire thing is scheduled to wrap before the president is done with this term, and we can all see what they're doing with respect to rigging the election. So my question is, what's to stop them from just, um, staying there? Because you'll now have a fortified East Wing as a sub-training command hub wired to private satellites, shielded from surveillance, built on donor dollars, and exempt from oversight, and that's where the real power could live forever. Backup video here if needed: Thoughts on her theory?The WH ballroom…… pic.twitter.com/Wu2ftnWdVU — Fletch17 (@RealFletch17) December 5, 2025 Ok, so now let's really dig in and figure out how much of that is true.... And you might be surprised to learn that MOST of it is true! In fact, almost all of the underlying facts are TRUE, and only the speculation at the end about Trump fortifying the White House so he can stay in power is False. Full breakdown here: Fact-Check Overview The transcript presents a mix of verified historical facts, accurate descriptions of recent events, and speculative conspiracy theories about the ongoing White House East Wing demolition (which began in late October 2025). Roughly 70–80% of the content is accurate or based on public reports, including the historical context of the East Wing and PEOC, the timeline and scale of the demolition, airspace restrictions, the Treasury memo, Ellipse closure, government shutdown, and private funding details. However, the latter half veers into unsubstantiated claims about hidden bunkers, Faraday cages, election rigging, and "perpetual power" via private infrastructure, which lack evidence and resemble conspiracy narratives. These elements reduce overall credibility, turning a legitimate discussion of transparency concerns into a "Jason Bourne movie" as the speaker admits. I'll break it down section-by-section, citing key claims with verification status (Accurate, Mostly Accurate, Inaccurate, or Speculative) and evidence from reliable sources. For brevity, I've grouped related claims. 1. Historical Background on East Wing and PEOC (00:24-01:17) Claim Status Explanation East Wing built in 1942 during WWII as cover for PEOC bunker under FDR; includes reinforced concrete, filtered air, Pentagon lines; Eleanor Roosevelt's office as camouflage. Accurate The East Wing was expanded in 1942 atop the original PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center), a WWII-era bunker designed for aerial attack protection. It featured secure communications (including to the Pentagon) and served as camouflage for the underground facility. Eleanor's office was indeed upstairs. PEOC connected by tunnels to Treasury, West Wing, etc. Mostly Accurate Confirmed tunnels link PEOC to the Treasury Building (761 feet) and West Wing. Broader DC tunnel rumors (e.g., to Capitol tram) exist but are unverified/classified; no public evidence for a full "underground tram" network. Presidents used PEOC (e.g., 9/11). Accurate VP Cheney and staff sheltered there on 9/11; Trump used it during 2020 George Floyd protests. This section is solid history—widely documented and unchallenged. 2. Current Demolition and Security Measures (01:17-02:55) Claim Status Explanation Satellite imagery shows full East Wing demolition (late Oct 2025). Accurate Demolition started Oct 20, 2025; entire East Wing reduced to rubble by Oct 23-25. Planet Labs satellite images confirm this. P-56A airspace is highly restricted (no drones/civilian aircraft below 18,000 ft; presidential control). Accurate P-56A is a prohibited zone over the White House/National Mall; no flights without federal/military clearance. It's part of the DC SFRA (Special Flight Rules Area). Oct 20 Treasury memo: No sharing photos of demolition. Accurate Treasury (adjacent to East Wing) issued a gag order to staff on Oct 20, citing security; no explanation given. Oct 23 Secret Service closes Ellipse Park(journalist staging area for White House photos). Accurate Closure on Oct 23 blocked media views of demolition; journalists (CNN, Reuters) were escorted out. DC height limits prevent rooftop views; total blackout except satellites. Accurate Federal rules cap DC building heights (~130 ft); no viable overlooks. Combined with airspace/park closures and memo, access is severely limited. These details align with reporting from NBC, Reuters, CNN, and others—transparency issues are a real point of criticism. 3. Project Announcement, Timing, and Oversight (02:55-03:46) Claim Status Explanation July 2025 announcement: 90,000 sq ft ballroom for 999 people (twice White House size). Accurate Announced July 31, 2025; 90,000 sq ft total (ballroom ~25,000 sq ft per renderings); capacity 999 (though plans fluctuated to 1,350). White House residence is ~55,000 sq ft. No equipment until late Oct, during government shutdown (watchdogs "go dark": no NCPC, historic reviews, Section 106). Accurate Construction started Oct 20; coincided with Oct 1-Nov 12 shutdown. Shutdown furloughed NCPC/Commission of Fine Arts staff; no reviews occurred pre-demolition (NCPC claims no jurisdiction over demo). Section 106 (historic preservation) consultations paused. Privately funded (Musk, Bezos, crypto billionaires; one pardoned "yesterday"); shielded from FOIA. Mostly Accurate Funded by private donors (e.g., Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google; 37 named in Oct). No specific Musk/Bezos confirmation, but tech billionaires involved; "pardoned yesterday" (Nov 4?) unverified but possible (Trump pardons ongoing). Critics note reduced oversight/transparency. Timing during shutdown is factual and criticized as evading oversight (e.g., National Trust for Historic Preservation letter). 4. Speculative Theories (03:47-05:39) Claim Status Explanation Undisclosed donors building indefinite underground infrastructure. Speculative Private funding is real, but no evidence of "underground" focus beyond standard rebuild. Ballroom is above-ground; PEOC (below) reportedly preserved/untouched. Starlink dishes (Musk, March 2025) replace govt networks; now tied to underground for private/off-grid comms/Faraday cage vs. attacks; for "continuity of govt" not parties. Mostly Inaccurate/Speculative Starlink installed March 2025 for Wi-Fi boost (routed via data center; donation vetted). No confirmed tie to East Wing/PEOC. Faraday cage claim baseless—PEOC already has EMP shielding. "Off-grid" overstates; it's supplemental, not replacement. No reports link to ballroom or "signal-proof shell." Ties to election rigging; fortified East Wing as "sub-training command hub" for perpetual power (private sats, donor $, no oversight). Inaccurate/Speculative No evidence of election ties or "staying there forever." Project ends by term's close (2029); standard security upgrades possible, but claims echo unproven conspiracies (e.g., QAnon-style). Contradicted by White House (ballroom for events). This is where accuracy drops—theories amplify real events (e.g., Starlink, private funds) into fiction without substantiation. Overall Assessment Strengths: The speaker nails the East Wing/PEOC history, demolition facts, and procedural concerns (shutdown timing, closures, funding opacity). These are backed by mainstream outlets like CNN, Reuters, and WaPo, highlighting genuine debates on historic preservation and ethics. Weaknesses: Conspiracy elements (bunker upgrades, Faraday/Starlink integration, power grabs) are unsubstantiated fear-mongering. They ignore reports that PEOC remains intact and the project is a flashy (criticized) ballroom addition. How Much Accurate? Core facts (history, events): 90%+. Full narrative: 70–80%, dragged down by speculation. If this is a "working theory," it's entertaining but not evidentiary—recommend sticking to verified reporting for a grounded take. For more on the project, see White House announcements or NCPC filings (post-shutdown).