Does the White House just look...different...to any of you since Biden took office?

[Tommy Carcetti]

Obviously, it's the same building that it's always been, both before and after the Former Office Occupant held root there.

But in the past four years, whenever I saw footage of the building, it just felt different knowing that creature laid claim to it. It felt bastardized, cheapened, bespoiled. Everything about it was more or less the same, but with the lack of legitimacy and sense of corruption that surrounded all things Trump, it just did not feel like the White House.

It felt almost like a movie set, constructed to look like the White House in some lot thousands of miles away, but not actually the White House itself.

And I had never felt that way about the White House before. Even during the Bush years, the building itself still felt like the People's House regardless of who resided there.

Now that we have a true President once again, all the aura and sense of history that was missing the previous four years has returned. You see President Biden walking along the Colonnade, and it's as if you could actually see the ghosts of JFK and RFK standing there, like in the old photographs. You saw the President's speech yesterday in the East Room and you remember watching President Obama announce the mission that killed Bin Laden.

That rarified air and sense of living history seems to have returned. At least for me.

Anyone else feel the same?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. That's a great observation. Now that you mention it...

[woodsprite]

2. Perception maybe. I've felt the past 4 yrs it's felt stagnant cold. Now there's life and color. nt

[iamateacher]

3. The non-profit White House Historical Society

Has the mission
" to protect, preserve, and provide public access to the rich history of America's Executive Mansion". The sponsor of the society is always the First Lady since the society was founded by Jackie Kennedy. I often wondered how they felt having a first lady like Melania as the official sponsor...she obviously hated living there. Now they have Jill Biden.....

[lagomorph777]

4. I still twitch whenever they cut to somebody at the White House. Then I remember "It's OK!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. It's way more boring now.

It's just full of people capably doing their work for the country. Ho hum.

No screaming Scaramucci, no babbling Sarah Sanders, nobody talking about the size of their electoral win or the size of the inaugural audience. No slumlord advisors, no white-power advisors.

Boring.

Just plain old competence at work.

[Patterson]

6. I know what you mean.

[Solly Mack]

7. It looks more sunny. Less gloomy. It became a fortress of ignorance and looked the part.

Now, it doesn't.

Trump's entire nasty being enveloped the place.

That's gone now.

[keithbvadu2]

8. No Kanye West pounding on the Oval Office desk, saying MF and BS with Trump smiling.

No Kanye West pounding on the Oval Office desk, saying MF and BS with Trump smiling.

[kskiska]

9. What got me was how the previous occupant

made people sit in what looked like little kindergarten chairs in a circle in front of his desk, whereas previous presidents, and President Biden hold meetings on the much more comfortable couches at the other end of the room.

[malaise]

10. Wait - haven't you heard that Biden is acting on a Movie set?

I saw this lady saying that the former guy is still president and we're watching Biden on a movie set.
So there

[movingviolation]

11. Qrump was an attack on the U.S.

His (his now) whole party seems to be a corrupt attack on decency, competency, equality, altruism, and justice. Now it's back!!!!

[demtenjeep]

12. that is a great way to put it

thank you