Trump took time during a cabinet meeting to discuss the interior decoration, a job traditionally reserved for the first lady
Donald Trump interrupted a cabinet meeting to ruminate if the White House would be better a new layer of paint and golden -leaf cutAsking Cabinet members to vote what they would like to see.
“It has been … uh … it has been really something,” Trump said about the beige painted walls, flanked by a desperate Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth. “The only question is: the golden leaves of the corners? … my cabinet can vote.” Asked members of the meeting at lift his hands If they prefer to add golden leaves to the room modeling.
On Tuesday, social media users rushed to criticize Trump for by fixing -s on the decorations In the middle of the cavalcade of domestic and international crisis. “37 trillion debt, middle class who wiped out and talks about the golden leaf of the corners of a room,” a user wrote in X.
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The tradition of the first lady to choose a decorative theme for the White House dates from 1961, when Jacqueline Kennedy selected a Nutcracker motif for Christmas decorations. The Trump excursion of this convention to reflect on gold painting comes, as millions of North -Americans are losing health care due to the approval of their spending bill last week.
Melania Trump revealed his own plans for a redecoration in January of this year, when she and the President moved to the White House at the beginning of the second term. He focused on “Redecrating a dozen rooms at the private residence, as the existing style was obsolete and not for my taste,” he wrote in his memory. The new look coincided with its design from Trump’s first term with only a few changes, he told Fox News in January.
Trump left his own mark at the presidential residence: a red button on the Oval Office counter, which, when pressed, warns a staff member to bring his favorite drink, a diet coke.