Trump Adds Gold Urns & Mirrors To Oval Office To Make The White House More Like Mar-A-Lago

Baila Eve ZismanApril 15, 2025, 1:02 amNews >

After announcing a 90-day pause on his tariffs last week, President Donald Trump made a series of adjustments to the presidential portraits in the grand White House entrance hall.

His latest addition to the grand foyer is a colorful painting of himself in the moments after last year’s attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. The portrait shows his face bloody from his injured ear, his fist raised in triumph. In order to display the portrait, Trump moved a modernistic portrait of Barack Obama across the hall, replacing one of George W. Bush. Bush’s portrait was moved into the stairway that leads to the private residence.

The painting of Trump is slated to stay in the foyer for a few months before being replaced by a more traditional portrait. Trump has also ordered a big painting of Abraham Lincoln to be moved out on the stairway into the cross hall to replace a painting of Bill Clinton.

Trump recently raged about an unflattering portrait of himself in Colorado’s capitol building.

Among his changes to the White House, Trump has added a slew of gold flourishes to the Oval Office, including seven golden urns, gold cherubs above the doorways, ornate floral gold leaf appliqués, gilded rococo mirrors, golden eagle side tables, lamps and more.

Trump also added a historic copy of the Declaration of Independence to the wall, as well as a giant map of the “Gulf of America.”

The aesthetic shifts have not impressed many, and the hosts of The View criticized Trump’s interior design. Joy Behar said, “He thinks he’s the interior decorator-in-chief now.” Behar’s cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin described the style as, “somewhere between Pablo Escobar and Liberace. He loves the gold tchotchke.”

Last week, Trump ordered the removal of the historic 200-year-old Andrew Jackson magnolia by the White House entrance. He announced via Truth Social, “The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less, and must now be removed.”

One of the controversial additions Trump plans to make to the White House is a giant ballroom to be accessed through doors in the East Room – which is currently the biggest room in the house, but Trump has deemed it “insufficient” for gatherings. Trump previously offered to build a 160-foot-long ballroom for $100 million but received no response from the Biden Administration.

The last major renovation of the White House was under President Harry S. Truman between the years of 1948 and 1952. Called the “Truman Reconstruction,” the entirety of the building’s interior was demolished and replaced, leaving only the exterior walls original.