Trump adds gold-script signage outside Oval Office in latest White House glow-up

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump appears to have added gold-script signage outside the Oval Office.

On Wednesday, November 5, as the president walked out of the Oval Office for his Florida trip, reporters noticed a brand-new gold-script sign reading “The Oval Office” glinting beside the entrance near the Rose Garden.

Trump unveils new Oval Office sign amid White House makeover

The sparkling new sign is just the latest in Trump’s ongoing transformation of the executive mansion. He has already torn up the Rose Garden grass and replaced it with polished stone pavers.

He also unveiled what he’s calling a “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the colonnade, complete with portraits of every past president except Joe Biden, whose portrait is replaced with an autopen version.

The commander-in-chief has reportedly also demolished the East Wing to make way for a planned $350 million ballroom, a venue intended to host “major events.” When he first floated the idea, Trump insisted it “would not affect the existing White House structure.”

However, that does not seem to be the case. 

Trump unveils lavish Lincoln Bathroom remodel

Trump has proudly posted photos on Truth Social of his handiwork, including a glitzy remodel of the Lincoln Bathroom that he says he personally oversaw. The updated room now gleams with black-and-white Statuary marble.

“It was renovated in the 1940s in an Art Deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era,” Trump wrote. “I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”

Earlier this month, Trump explained why he scrapped the old design. “It’s a style that is not good … it is actually art deco and art deco doesn’t go with 1850 and civil wars,” he said. “So, I ripped it apart, and we built a bathroom that’s absolutely gorgeous and totally keeping in that time because the Lincoln bedroom is so incredible for those of you who have seen it.”

Trump’s remodel contrasts with traditional White House history

Historians might raise an eyebrow, considering the White House has long featured marble architecture and stone statues. To them, Trump’s gold-and-marble combination may feel a bit unusual.

The Lincoln Bedroom and its adjoining quarters were not exactly filled with marble to begin with. In Lincoln’s day, the room functioned as an office and state room, decorated with carpet and wallpaper.

A nearby space, then known as the Prince of Wales Room, featured draperies and old furniture that an 1862 newspaper dryly described as “very neatly papered, but should be better furnished. All the furniture is exceedingly old, and is too ricketty to venerate.”

Still, every president has left a mark on the residence. Harry S Truman famously gave the White House a massive mid-century overhaul, installing the very bathroom that Trump just revamped.  

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