President Donald Trump is gilding the White Home, utilizing his so-called “gold guy” so as to add gold touches to the Oval Workplace on the taxpayer dime to make the historic constructing appear like his cheesy Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida, The Wall Road Journal reported.
Trump has gilded the furnishings, affixed gold ornaments to the Oval Workplace hearth, added gold sculptures and movie frames, and reportedly put in a gold Trump crest over the doorway into the White Home. He even ordered his and Vice President JD Vance’s portraits to be reprinted with a gold border as a result of he wished the images to “catch the light,” the WSJ reported.
“It’s the Golden Office for the Golden Age,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt advised the WSJ.
The Wall Road Journal reported that Trump additionally desires so as to add a ballroom to the White Home advanced the place he can maintain occasions, like he does at his Florida membership, the place friends pay silly quantities of cash for the possibility to heap reward on the egomaniacal chief.
Trump loves his gilded Mar-a-Lago ballroom, telling friends at an occasion in February, “The ballroom is in top shape. We just spent a lot of money on gold. I’ve got more gold in the ballroom than anybody’s ever had in a ballroom before.”
Trump apparently desires to recreate that on the White Home.
The ballroom addition is a venture Trump has wished to do since 2016, when he reportedly spoke to the Obama White Home and provided to construct the $100 million venture—regardless that Trump is infamous for not paying his payments and stiffing staff. Throughout his campaigns he even stiffed localities, refusing to pay a whole bunch of 1000’s in charges for the general public security offered for his ego-stroking rallies.
The Obama administration laughed off Trump’s provide.
“I’m not sure that it would be appropriate to have a shiny gold Trump sign … on any part of the White House,” then-White Home press secretary Josh Earnest stated on the time.
However in Trump’s second time period in workplace, the place he’s appearing just like the dictator he’s at all times dreamed of being, he’s now critical about remaking the White Home—a worrying signal from somebody who has mused about staying for a 3rd time period, regardless of the Structure banning such a factor.
Trump’s cheesy ballroom could be along with his plan to pave over the Rose Backyard, the attractive inexperienced house exterior the White Home the place presidents maintain occasions and press conferences. Trump’s cause for that? He stated girls are uncomfortable when their excessive heels sink into the grass. The horror!
Trump is gilding the White Home and turning it right into a gaudy mess comes on the identical time that his administration is slashing federal spending for vital social security internet applications like Social Safety, Medicaid, meals stamps, preschool training for low-income People, and extra. He’s additionally slicing medical analysis, illness mitigation, and international support, which is already having disastrous penalties and can undoubtedly result in much more.
Worse, as Trump calls for austerity from the nation, he’s reportedly planning to spend tens of thousands and thousands on a grotesque army parade in Washington, D.C., to have fun his personal birthday.
Trump is taking a web page out of Marie Antoinette’s playbook. “Let them eat cake!”
