Bradley Whitford: East Wing Demolition Is a Distraction from Trump Being Friends with Epstein

“We have a President who is a corrupt authoritarian, in my view, who has a kind of contempt for democratic values and its symbols. And I think he thinks he has the right to destroy the people’s house, do some influence peddling along the way, build a ballroom as a monument to distract us from the fact that inflation is up, job creation is down, Congress has shut down the government, and we’re suppressing information about the fact that, you know, he was best friends with the most notorious child rapist [Jeffrey Epstein] in history.”
— Actor Bradley Whitford on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, October 24, 2025.