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Good God in Butter what is going on with the mantle and tables in the Oval Office? Tacky ass shit.
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Are those golf trophies and what are those things mounted above the fireplace? They
look like $5 for the both of them @ a yard sale crap. And the gold leaf on tables by the
fireplace is tacky as shit. You can’t buy style or class.
Never mind that we are now stuck with an outdated airplane that Qatar has been trying to
get rid of for years that will cost America millions of dollars. I wonder how much the Qatar
government or some Oligarch paid Trump to take it off their hands?
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The Washington Post actually has an article on the tackification of the Oval Office
Curious about the tackification of the Oval Office, I skimmed the official White House photo feed. As it turns out, the gold elements in the room were added slowly, not all at once. Photos in my (free to read) newsletter.
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) 2025-05-05T15:21:40.072Z
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As I was writing it, I realized that a companion piece might be warranted. Among the less-important ways in which Trump is subverting tradition is his gaudy overhaul of the seat of American power: the Oval Office itself.
Consider this image, for example, showing Trump meeting with staff including his soon-to-be-former national security adviser Michael Waltz. It was taken on April 30, the day before Waltz’s ouster. Gold trim and appliqués are ubiquitous.
That photo prompted two questions. First, how different was it from the Oval Office during the Biden administration? Second, when did the change occur? My search for answers led me to official photos posted to the sharing site Flickr (remember Flickr?), where I learned that the answers to those questions were “very” and “slowly.”
Let’s start with the photo below, which shows President Joe Biden welcoming Brittney Griner’s wife to the Oval Office in 2022. Notice the doorway and bookshelves on the back wall. Neither has any visible gold.
....By early February, little splashes of gold started to appear. In the nooks above the bookshelves, gold vases were put on display. Some sort of gold figurine was placed above the door’s transom.
By late March, Trump was settling in. The pictures near Ronald Reagan’s portrait had changed. A portrait of Andrew Jackson and its brownish frame had been swapped out for a gilded one — and another portrait with a thick gold frame was crammed into a formerly empty space.
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You can see the full effect in the photo below, taken on April 10. But the “improvements” weren’t done yet. See those two brown chairs against the wall to Trump’s back? Notice that the wall behind them is unadorned.
By April 16, that space on the wainscoting (lots of architecture terminology today!) had also broken out in gilded hives.
By April 22, the trim around the door — and the bindings on the ornamental fasces (ahem) above it — had also received a fresh coat of gold leaf.
Consider this image, for example, showing Trump meeting with staff including his soon-to-be-former national security adviser Michael Waltz. It was taken on April 30, the day before Waltz’s ouster. Gold trim and appliqués are ubiquitous.
That photo prompted two questions. First, how different was it from the Oval Office during the Biden administration? Second, when did the change occur? My search for answers led me to official photos posted to the sharing site Flickr (remember Flickr?), where I learned that the answers to those questions were “very” and “slowly.”
Let’s start with the photo below, which shows President Joe Biden welcoming Brittney Griner’s wife to the Oval Office in 2022. Notice the doorway and bookshelves on the back wall. Neither has any visible gold.
....By early February, little splashes of gold started to appear. In the nooks above the bookshelves, gold vases were put on display. Some sort of gold figurine was placed above the door’s transom.
By late March, Trump was settling in. The pictures near Ronald Reagan’s portrait had changed. A portrait of Andrew Jackson and its brownish frame had been swapped out for a gilded one — and another portrait with a thick gold frame was crammed into a formerly empty space.
.....
You can see the full effect in the photo below, taken on April 10. But the “improvements” weren’t done yet. See those two brown chairs against the wall to Trump’s back? Notice that the wall behind them is unadorned.
By April 16, that space on the wainscoting (lots of architecture terminology today!) had also broken out in gilded hives.
By April 22, the trim around the door — and the bindings on the ornamental fasces (ahem) above it — had also received a fresh coat of gold leaf.
trump truly has NO taste or sense of style and has ruined the Oval Office.
Is flocked & mirrored wallpaper next?
Dear Lord, may I live long enough to see at least this part of trump’s damage undone. 
...must decorate himself on the outside." -- Bruce Lee
