Trump gloats over the gold trim in the Oval Office. Dork!

[yellowdogintexas]

9. At least some of the gold items belong to the White House, Some of it may have come from Mar a Lard O

This article is about the history of the plant(s) which preceded the gold stuff and includes the origin of the gold stuff.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/growing-legend-missing-oval-office-171836112.html I love the story of the ivy. It has its own Instagram account.

According to another article, Mrs Kennedy used the larger pieces as flower vases around the formal rooms.

Regardless, that gold overlay he plastered around the room is just plain tacky and gauche.

At any rate, I hope the stuff is inventoried and put away before he leaves. It belongs to us, not him. At least he did not spend taxpayer money on those items or anything he brought from any of his other residences

Also from Wikipedia:

The Vermeil Room (/ˈvɜːrməl/ VUR-məl; French: [vɛʁˈmɛj]) is located on the ground floor of the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The room houses a collection of silver-gilt or vermeil tableware, a 1956 bequest to the White House by Margaret Thompson Biddle. Portraits of American First Ladies hang in the room.[1]

McKim creates the Social Room for Theodore Roosevelt
The Vermeil Room was originally a staff work room used for storage and later for polishing silver. Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 renovation of the White House by architect Charles Follen McKim reconfigured the use of the house, finishing much of the ground floor for public use. When first furnished for public use, the room was termed the Social Room because it served as a lounge adjacent to a women's restroom. McKim provided the room with late Georgian-style cove moldings and a paneled wainscot. On the west wall, McKim installed a Colonial Revival mantel with paired Tuscan Doric columns and bas-relief medallions with American eagles similar to the one found in the seal of the president of the United States. A pair of built-in arched cupboards flanked the mantel.

Margaret Thompson Biddle's bequest
Margaret Thompson Biddle's collection was significant and ranged from Renaissance to 19th-century French and English pieces. The collection includes work by English Regency silversmith Paul Storr (1771–1844) and French Empire silversmiths Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843), and Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763–1850). First Lady Mamie Eisenhower had the collection displayed in the room's glass-enclosed vitrines.