The White House has always taken on a bit of the color and personality of the people who reside in it, but President Donald Trump’s approach seems to be taking up a lot of his day-to-day brain space.
As the commander-in-chief who is currently overseeing two wars, a connected affordability crisis compounding the one that was ongoing, and trying to get ahead of what is forecasted to be a challenging slate of midterm elections for his Republican Party, we sure are hearing a lot about his vision for the proposed White House ballroom.
The decoration projects — and the slow creep of distinct (if aesthetically baffling) gold fixtures throughout the White House — seem never to be too far from his mind.
In September, he boasted on Truth Social that the Oval Office and Cabinet Rooms featured “some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold” and that “Foreign Leaders, and everyone else, ‘freak out’ when they see the quality and beauty,” before concluding “Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!!”
These projects are, as experts told HuffPost, part of the role that many Americans associate with a different member of the first family — and it’s not the only area where the president appears more than game to step into what has historically been handled by the first lady of the United States (FLOTUS).
