Posted on 04/14/2025 5:43:10 AM PDT by mairdie
Donald Trump the property developer is busting out of the political straitjacket to bling the Oval Office and reimagine the White House.
From planning a “beautiful, magnificent” new ballroom to paving over the Rose Garden to create a convivial, Mar-a-Lago-style terrace, the 45th and 47th president is determined to make his mark on the White House this time.
“It keeps my real estate juices flowing,” he told a reporter recently.
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On the curved walls, Trump has quadrupled the number of gilt-framed presidential portraits to 20, from Biden’s five, with Lincoln taking pride of place above the fireplace and Ronald Reagan prominently featured to the right of the Resolute Desk, where visitors will see it first.
Room will be made for a portrait of one of Trump’s favorite predecessors, William McKinley, when a suitable one can be found. The 25th US president, who served from 1897 to 1901, was the original “tariff guy” whom Trump has praised as a “natural businessman [who] made our country very rich through tariffs.”
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I wonder how much of Trump's interest in McKinley is that McKinley was assassinated. Trump's close call would certainly endear him to his assassinated predecessors.
BINGO!!
2017 White House & NYC Christmas Decorating - Silver Bells - Mitch Miller
https://youtu.be/wOlaJAVOWTM
2018 White House Christmas - In Dulci Jubilo Praetorius - Ludwig Güttler
https://youtu.be/z85rrXlhTDM
2019 White House Christmas - Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Celtic Christmas
https://youtu.be/KKLbXU-_O_8
I know exactly what he’s talking about when it comes to the “real estate juices flowing”.
Do you have any particular project that you look back on with excitement, or perhaps a dream project that you’d give a lot to be able to do?
And another asset is that we will get to see some more lefty heads explode.
We have needed a posh ballroom for at least 80 years. The whole place needs to be fixed up for use as a ceremonial palace to impress visitors. BUT, all of Washington needs to be fixed up.There should be no slums in the Capital!
He should turn the press room (back) into a swimming pool. Find a meeting room in the DC ‘hood for the protective press corps.
The ballroom makes sense.
As to the gold? Certainly on-brand. Tacky as heck, but what the common man, in his day, used to imagine how rich people were surrounded.
If women are expected to attend rose garden events, I can see the practical merit to the courtyard, though that really means it is no longer a “garden”.
I’d move the whole press operation over to the Ike.
I could hardly believe it when, early on, Trump demanded the cleanup of D.C. or he’d clean it himself. And we’re only 3 months in. This is going to be the longest presidential term any Democrat has imagined. FORTY-FIVE MONTHS TO GO!!!!
I love Trump but he has hideous taste and should not be allowed anywhere near this. Same for his Air Force one paint job. Turn him loose on camp David or something.
I wouldn’t call grass a garden. The horticulture surrounds what is now grass and what will become paving suitable for entertainment and high heels. I love that Trump is personally interested. “He admires the bucolic vista from the veranda off the Oval Office and has taken a keen interest in the groundskeeping work of the National Park Service.”
Make every inch of DC the white house grounds and be rid of the entire district. Except the capital maybe.
Trump is a classicist. He likes the old school design of architecture and French interiors. And he thinks that formality is more appropriate for the introduction of America to foreign dignitaries. He did some EO saying that new buildings had to go back to classic architecture rather than the modern, and temporary, styles more popular - and cheaper - today. And he’s finding the savings with Doge to be able to afford that more expensive architecture.
I have no problem with Versaille meets America. Bring back Marquis LaFayette.
Hideous.
I would call grass surrounded by flowers and other plantings a garden. I would call a paved courtyard with plantings around it a courtyard with plantings.
Hideous. I would not call him a classicist. In matters of taste He’s more of a late era tacky-ist. Versailles is not classic, it’s Baroque, French Baroque to be exact. Nothing out founding fathers loved.
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