Tuesday, November 10, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Trump wants to make the Oval Office a national monument to bad taste

 
Headline:  New York Times, 11/5/2026

Erica L. Green reports:
The announcement reinforced Mr. Trump’s public preoccupation with White House remodeling, to the near exclusion of any unprompted discussion of the election or how he plans to move ahead on his agenda, now that a Democratic Congress is set to vigorously challenge him. On Wednesday, in his first public appearance after his party’s electoral wipeout, he visited the White House ballroom construction site to celebrate and sign the final steel beam of the structure. 
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He has transformed the presidential working space to mirror the triumphal style of Louis XIV, a theme that shows up at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club. The office has been saturated in gold décor, including gilded appliqués that he has himself super-glued onto the walls.

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