In a segment on President Trump's ballroom project on MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels called the Founding Fathers "nightmarish" on some policies, citing slavery, but that they got it right in creating a White House that was relatively small, the notion being to distinguish it from the palaces of royalty. The original Constitution did not forbid slavery because the Southern states, which were heavily dependent on slave labor, would not have joined the United States if the Constitution had abolished slavery. Daniels would apparently have preferred a United States limited to the northern states, with the southern states forming their own nation. The likely result would have been for slavery to have continued beyond Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
