Donald Trump promised a new “golden age” for the United States. In the oval office, at least, he has fulfilled his promise with a change of image in golden tones and a recharged style.
The Republican has adorned the interior sanctuary of the US presidency with trophies and golden horses with the Trump brand, in addition to filling almost every centimeter available with wall with portraits of its predecessors.
Almost every day brings something new. This week, Trump revealed a copy of the declaration of independence, the historic document that marked the liberation of the United States of the British monarchy 250 years ago.
The ex -manager of Telerreality and Real Estate Magnate, 78, seems more interested in aesthetics now than in its first term, from 2017 to 2021.
“President Trump plays very well the role of Donald Trump,” Peter Loge, director of the George Washington University, explains to AFP.
“The show is the important thing. Part of the show is the ostentation. It would be surprising that Trump did not turn the oval office into a television set that reflects his brand,” he adds.
Portraits with political message
The Oval Office is a symbol of American power and backdrop of the frequent press conferences and televised meetings with foreign dignitaries, including the recent disagreement between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski.
Therefore, the new incorporation into its gallery of presidential portraits is no accident: the president of the nineteenth century James Polk.
Under the mandate of Polk, eleventh president, the United States lived its greatest territorial expansion, by incorporating huge stripes on the west coast, the southwest and Texas.
A symbol at a time when Trump alarm his allies when claiming the Panama Canal, talk openly about the possibility of annexing Greenland and raising the option of taking control of Gaza.
“Would Biden do it?”
Each president leaves his personal seal in the Oval Office.
The difference with his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
“Do you think Joe Biden would do this? I don’t believe it,” Trump said this week while the curtain that protects the declaration of independence, in an interview with The Ingraham Angle program of Fox News Channel.
Trump pointed out the newly installed golden cherubs on the doors.
“They say that angels bring good luck,” he said.
In comparison, Biden’s oval office was sober, with five portraits around the famous fireplace, including that of the president in times of war Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Trump has nine, not counting others near his desk, including the Republican Ronald Reagan.
Biden placed an ivy plant that allegedly dated from John F. Kennedy’s time on the fireplace. Trump, on the other hand, has arranged seven gold containers, some of more than 200 years.
Both retain a bust of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, but the Republican has added another: that of the British Prime Minister in World War II, Winston Churchill, who was already in the place during his first term.
Framed police photo
The ostentatious deployment should not surprise a man who announced his first presidential candidacy descending through a golden mechanical staircase in the Trump tower in New York.
The Millionaire has been rotating with his name everything that can, from buildings to Bibles.
Recently, a great map with the registration “Gulf of America” has included in the Oval Office, the new name by which its administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump plans to even pave the famous Rosalda that borders the oval office, to look at the courtyard of his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
“The grass simply does not work” because “it is soaked,” said Fox News.
But one of the incorporations that are most proud of it is a very unconventional portrait, which hangs near their illustrious predecessors.
Just outside the Oval Office, in a golden frame, the Trump police file is taken in 2023 in Georgia, in a judicial case in which he is accused of trying to interfere in the 2020 elections.