White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt literally invented a new term as she ducked and dodged a question on whether there are any limits to what President Donald Trump can tear down or destroy if he wants to, including the Jefferson Memorial, without planning oversight.

The question by CBS reporter Weijia Jiang comes after Trump unexpectedly tore down the East Wing of the White House this week to make room for his “big, beautiful ballroom,” shocking Americans when photos of the destruction surfaced.

At Thursday’s press briefing, Jiang asked, “Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Can he demolish this building, or, say the Jefferson Memorial?”

Jiang first referenced The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and the fact that the administration claims Trump did not file construction plans with the commission because it only has oversight on construction projects on federal properties, not demolitions.

True to form, Leavitt pretty much evaded the question even inventing the term “vertical construction” to explain that Trump didn’t need a permit during the demolition phase, but might during the construction phase, but even then, she didn’t exactly answer the question.

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She referred to what she says is a legal opinion by the NCPC on construction oversight and said the White House planned to follow it.

“So, it’s not the president who came up with that legal opinion himself. That’s a legal opinion that’s been held by the NCPC for many years. … Their general counsel has said, when it comes to phase one of this project, the tearing down of the current East Wing structure, a submission is not required legally for that, only for vertical construction will a submission be required, and that’s a legal opinion from them, and we are following that legal opinion.”

What is vertical construction? Plenty of people wondered what she was even talking about.

“Vertical construction? I literally work in the industry and I’ve never heard construction categorized in that manner,” a Threads user wrote, joining the many clearly confused by Leavitt’s answer, or rather non-answer.