Look What Donald Trump Has Done To The Oval Office

[LiberalArkie]

Aug 30, 2025, 08:00 AM EDT



For decades, every president has made the Oval Office his own.

John F. Kennedy specially chose a rug in Harvard crimson, although he did not live to see its installation. Richard Nixon’s office featured a navy rug with gold stars, accented by gold curtains. Jimmy Carter surrounded himself with warmer, more natural shades. George H.W. Bush opted for powder blue as both a floor and window treatment.

The presidents have chosen different sofas, different coffee tables, different books for the shelves, different knick-knacks for the tables and paintings for the walls.

But none have had the aesthetic impact of President Donald Trump.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-gilding_n_68910956e4b06ab33893e975

[SheilaAnn]

1. Looks like a tacky brothel, cheap clientel admired. n/t

[LiberalArkie]

3. That has been my exact thought. A Russian Brothel

[Irish_Dem]

7. Probably where Trump and Putin hold most of their meetings.

[LiberalArkie]

32. I wonder if this is how the rooms at the island looked

[Irish_Dem]

39. Good point. I wouldn't be surprised.

All those rich powerful men want a luxury spot to rape children.
They don't want some shady dump decor.

They want to feel special, important, rich.

[LiberalArkie]

43. I ran across a photo of Epstein's living room from a US Da photo and indeed it does look like this

It is in this thread.

[Irish_Dem]

44. Jebus. It is a sexual fetish.

Part of their serial rape protocol.

Surrounded by gold trash decor as they beat up and rape children.

This is why Trump tarts up his office in the WH.
Turns him on.

[CatWoman]

19. bordello chic

[homegirl]

38. DNA will tell..

His grandfather Drumpf was a brothel owner!

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Every single thing about "him" screams Look at Me!!!

What a tiny little fart in a windstorm.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Classic narcissist.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Even Gold Member had better taste despite saying "I LOVE GOLD!"

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

11. I chuckled at his UM neck tattoo.

I would have guessed he was a Michigan man but then it would have been a block “M”.

I know it’s part of the word album but that letter placement on his neck was perfect!

[Marcuse]

22. The original. He loves GOLD and cheats at cards just like...

[johnnyfins]

33. Goldfinger also cheated at golf

[Marcuse]

47. True.

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[wcmagumba]

5. I hope he's "gone" soon...I know, I keep repeating myself but it's true...

[Ping Tung]

6. All that's missing are the gold plated garden gnomes and Elvis paintings on black velvet.

kitsch:

something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.

[wcmagumba]

12. Yes, he needs garden gnomes but even velvet Elvis is too classy for t-rump, maybe the velvet card playing dogs...

[jmowreader]

37. The poker playing dog paintings are also too classy for Trump

What Trump wants is Jon McNaughton Trump-as-superhero giclees.

[Marcuse]

46. Definition of character.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Every time I see this decor I think trump looks bipolar.

[ms liberty]

10. The MAGAteers think it's elegant and classy

[4th]

13. Not bad really.

Or at least not as bad as that casino in New Jersey he owned that went bankrupt.

How does one bankrupt a casino anyway?

[roamer65]

16. When you're done using it for Russian mob money laundering.

Then u bankrupt it.

[4th]

20. I seriously doubt Russians were involved. Not in that era.

And I do not believe it was money laundering, just straight up plunder.

[roamer65]

25. It was cited by the Treasury dept in 2014 for it.

https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long

[littlemissmartypants]

26. Oh, ye of little faith...

Some of us who lived and worked in NJ at the time may beg to differ.

[mjvpi]

14. Ersonally. It's the guys on the couch that I find distasteful.

Ul

[tetedur]

15. And in the chairs

[Uncle Joe]

17. It's looks like the Palace of Versailles threw up on the Oval Office from carrying Liberace's love child.

Thanks for the thread LiberalArkie

[Snarkoleptic]

18. Looks quite a bit like Jeffrey Epstein's fireplace.

Donnie is longing for the days when he could pedo around with Epstein.

[LiberalArkie]

34. That is what I had been wondering. Is Trump mimicking his buddy Jeff

[andym]

21. Trump has brought the gilded age to the oval office. NT.

[Bigerhalf]

23. Remember the James Bond movie, Gold Finger ?

The theme song sticks in my mind.,,,,,, and fits perfectly.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Reminds me of Putin's palace

Little Putin has double gold eagles in every room. His bedroom and bathroom have as much gold as pedo Trump has in the oval office. Pedo Trump so wants to be like Putin he copies his weird decoration style.

[RT Atlanta]

27. I want the next Democratic occupant...

to talk plainly and openly about having to fumigate the place (mix of Depends and stale McDonalds and 'old man smell') and removing the Saddam-aesthetic as an important gesture toward returning this place to 'the Peoples' House.'

[PAMod]

31. Smudge with sage.

Maybe consider an exorcism.

[CaptainTruth]

28. "aesthetic impact"?

Allow me to correct that last sentence:

"But none have defaced it with gaudy tacky tasteless two-bit dictator trashy decor as vile as President Donald Trump."

How's that?

[3catwoman3]

42. Much better.

[CaptainTruth]

53. Thank you! I was hoping there would be some like-minded validation here.

[LudwigPastorius]

29. _

[PAMod]

30. Vandalism. eom

[twodogsbarking]

35. Where are the urinals? Oh wait, that's not the restroom.

[NNadir]

36. Tacky, even for someone born in Queens.

[moondust]

40. Where's the calf?

[Hekate]

50. Trump is The Golden Calf all by himself. There can be only one.

[Brainfodder]

41. What I see is him putting value in the White House that like that plane he intends to leave with it?

Crazy loon level greed!!!??!!

[Hekate]

49. He's a man who knows the cost of everything, and the value of none

Can’t remember who I stole that from, but to them

[Doodley]

45. If you compare the two photos, the biggest difference is Biden didn't share the oval office with two men

who despise him. One, Vance, who previously compared Trump to Hitler, and two, Rubio, who previously defined Trump as a conman. As they say, all that glitters isn't gold.

[Hekate]

48. Bargain basement Rococo. Dictator chic. Surfaces that reflect -- he, Trump. Tasteless.

[Diamond_Dog]

51. Nauseating and suffocating.

[chowder66]

52. I'm shocked they aren't all wearing gold lame (won't let me type the accent above the e) suits.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

54. 'Disturbing': Expert breaks down 'sheer garishness' of Trump's Oval Office makeover

trump has turned the Oval Office is a very tacky and ugly place.

'Disturbing': Expert breaks down 'sheer garishness' of Trump's Oval Office makeover https://twp.ai/4imrIl

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T19:39:27.000Z

https://www.alternet.org/trump-oval-office-makeover

After his second term began, President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with a gold-themed aesthetic similar to his Trump Tower penthouse and his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. One expert is noticing a distinct similarity between Trump's and that of a French monarch known for his over-the-top taste.

In a Friday essay for Slate, Grinnell College French professor David Harrison — who also leads an organization focused on studying France — observed how Trump is resembling Louis XIV (also known as "the Sun King&quot in his approach to the Oval Office and the White House. Harrison reminded readers that Trump sought to recreate at Mar-a-Lago the same "hall of mirrors" at the Palace of Versailles.

He named interior designer Angelo Donghia as the brains behind styling Trump's Manhattan residence in the same vein as Versailles, which he noted the Duke de Saint-Simon famously criticized as "a masterpiece in bad taste." And he opined that Trump's favored style would not be looked upon favorably by most Americans. However, the French expert went on to suggest that beyond its monarchistic aesthetic, Trump's approach to decorating the Oval Office could also be seen as a reflection of how he views power.

"Along with the anti-royalist sentiment that used to characterize U.S. politics, I always assumed that most Americans had no real stomach for the hubris and sheer garishness that defined the style and surroundings of France’s most famous king," Harrison wrote. "More disturbing, of course, than the president’s taste is the administration’s view of executive authority. This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised ... Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels."

[Vinca]

55. I've never seen anything so tacky. It looks like a whore house.

He better have kept his tiny paws off the Resolute Desk. None of that faux gold crap on that.

[LAS14]

56. Apparently there's a (well understood?) link between fascism and kitsch.

Michelle Goldberg was talking about it last night. Kitsch is simple, and fascism avoids complexity, subtlety, (I wish I could remember some of her other words.) Makes lots of sense.