The White House Family Theater, the movie theater which first came to be in 1942 when a cloakroom was converted into a screening room, was demolished this week as part of the destruction of the East Wing to make room for President Donald Trump’s planned $300 million ballroom.

Former President Bill Clinton requested a private screening of the 1996 sci-fi hit Independence Day at the White House—and fled the screening room after the film’s most iconic scene. Director Roland Emmerich recalled the bizarre moment in an oral history of the film recorded by The Hollywood Reporter for its 25th anniversary and re-shared as the real-life White House is under attack from bulldozers ordered up by President Donald Trump.