Donald Trump can’t cease gilding the White Home.
Latest images present in some way much more golden trim within the already gold-dusted Oval Workplace.
Progressive influencer Brian Tyler Cohen posted the within look to X on Thursday, displaying the blindingly vivid gold molding on the partitions and gold appliqués throughout the door. These are along with the gold-framed work held on the partitions.
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Trump is now reworking the Oval Workplace to cowl it in gold after ordering a $200 million golden ballroom.
All after reducing 17 million People’ well being care and taking meals away from hungry kids. pic.twitter.com/JtCJMaGzwd
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 7, 2025
Whereas the brand new metallic touches may appear minuscule in contrast with the huge quantities of paintings, trophies, and different yellowish decor throughout the room, dialing again time to the Oval Workplace earlier than Trump is a sight to be seen.
When Joe Biden was nonetheless president, images of the workplace confirmed yellow curtains, however the partitions alongside the historic room have been a lot whiter than what’s pictured now.
President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Workplace on the White Home in July 2024.
Then once more, it’s not simply that room seeing large modifications. Trump has torn into the historic, once-grassy Rose Backyard to as a substitute fill the bottom with pale stone and white seating that features the identical yellow—or gold—umbrellas seen at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
If that weren’t sufficient, the president introduced plans to assemble a $200 million golden ballroom with equally gold decor.
Now it’s price noting that each president has the appropriate to make their very own modifications to the White Home grounds throughout their keep. Nevertheless, whereas modifications like Barack Obama’s basketball court docket have occurred in recent times, Trump’s modifications have been notably farther from the standard understated White Home decor.
In response to her boss losing taxpayer cash on cheesy gold trim, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned, “It’s the Golden Office for the Golden Age.”
But when there’s no golden age happening, then what? Allow them to eat gold?
