Trump is putting his 'touches' on the White House with flagpoles, art and an Oval Office overhaul

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is putting his “touches” connected the White House with caller flagpoles, caller artwork, a implicit redecoration of the Oval Office and perchance covering up the tract successful the Rose Garden.

Trump, a erstwhile existent property developer and hotelier, said Wednesday that he's adding 2 “beautiful” flagpoles to the grounds to alert the American emblem “in astir a week oregon so.”

The Republican president precocious hung caller artworks featuring himself, including a rendering of him with his fist raised aft past year's attempted assassination successful Pennsylvania. He has spruced up the Oval Office by adding portraits of each of his predecessors, a wall-mounted transcript of the Declaration of Independence that is shieled by acheronian drapes and galore aureate accents.

Trump has besides talked astir paving implicit the tract successful the Kennedy-era Rose Garden

All families granted the privilege of surviving successful the White House effort to find ways to permission their people connected property, and Trump isn't immoderate different.

Near the extremity of his archetypal term, helium and archetypal woman Melania Trump unveiled refurbished tennis courts and a caller pavilion connected the southbound grounds. Michelle Obama's rootlike plot is inactive producing.

But Trump is simply a “real property developer astatine heart” and is ever looking to amended the White House, spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters connected Wednesday.

New emblem poles

Earlier Wednesday, Trump took an impromptu stroll extracurricular toward the Pennsylvania Avenue obstruction with caput groundskeeper Dale Haney and different unit members. Asked what helium was doing, Trump said helium was scoping retired a determination for a flagpole.

He told reporters afterward that he's installing 2 “beautiful” flagpoles connected the grounds due to the fact that “they've needed flagpoles for 200 years.” He said the poles would beryllium “paid for by Trump" and could beryllium installed arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week.

The American and POW/MIA flags alert connected the extortion of the White House each day. Trump had them lowered connected Monday aft Pope Francis' death.

Oval Office overhaul

Trump pledged successful his inaugural address to preside implicit a “golden property of America.” But helium appears to person ushered it archetypal into an Oval Office helium has redecorated by adding aureate accents to the fireplace, doorway arches, walls and different areas of the room. It hasn't gone unnoticed.

“I truly indispensable accidental the Oval Office has ne'er looked better," Paul Atkins, the caller Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, said Tuesday aft his ceremonial swearing-in there. “One could truly picture it arsenic glistening, and I’ve heard stories astir it. It’s true. It’s the interaction of a assured president, starring with optimism towards an American aureate age.”

Every president spruces up the bureau to their liking, often with caller furniture, rugs, draperies and different items. Some prosecute decorators; erstwhile President Joe Biden had 1 of his brothers to grip it.

Trump seems to person directed the process himself.

“I've done immoderate ‘Trump touches’ to the Oval Office,” helium told the title Ohio State shot team erstwhile helium invited them for a circuit aft helium hosted the players and coaches past week. “It's a small nicer than it utilized to be, I think.”

New Trump creation

Earlier this month, Trump hung a representation depicting a infinitesimal aft past summer's assassination attempt, thereby bumping the authoritative representation of erstwhile President Barack Obama to different partition successful the foyer.

The caller coating was donated by Andrew Pollock, whose mislaid his girl Meadow successful the 2018 wide shooting astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Florida.

Another representation of Trump present hangs connected the crushed level betwixt the authoritative portraits of erstwhile archetypal ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Revealed successful a societal media station by first-year Rep. Jimmy Patronis, a Florida Republican, the representation of Trump features the red, achromatic and bluish of an American emblem superimposed implicit the president’s headshot connected a achromatic background.

The White House connected Wednesday confirmed that the representation is real.

Rose Garden

Trump besides wants to pave implicit the tract successful the celebrated Rose Garden, which was created during the medication of John F. Kennedy aft helium was inspired by gardens helium saw during a 1961 authorities sojourn to France.

Presidents person agelong utilized the abstraction for everything from large announcements to Thanksgiving turkey pardons ceremonies.

He shared his program with Fox News Channel big Laura Ingraham arsenic helium showed her Oval Office portion taping an interview. The Rose Garden is conscionable extracurricular and Trump complained astir the tract ever being “soaking wet” and “the women with the precocious heels.”

“The writer just, it doesn’t work,” Trump told Ingraham, adding that it would beryllium covered with “gorgeous stone.”

Ingraham asked if the roses stay. Trump said they would.

“It’s a roseate garden. All of this stays,” helium said, explaining that lone the tract would beryllium affected. “I deliberation it’s going to beryllium beautiful. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium much beautiful.”

Paving implicit the tract would people the 2nd makeover of the abstraction nether Trump.

In 2020, then-first woman Trump announced a spruce-up of the garden, with the astir visually striking alteration being the summation of a 3-foot (0.91-meter)-wide limestone walking way bordering the cardinal lawn. Less noticeable alterations included improved drainage and infrastructure, and accessibility for radical with disabilities. Audiovisual and broadcasting fixes were besides made.

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