US EditionTrump adds gold-script signage outside of Oval Office
The gold sign outside the Oval Office highlights Trump’s continued use of luxury symbolism amid criticism over national issues like government shutdown and benefit losses.
- President Donald Trump added a sign outside the Oval Office on Wednesday, spotted by reporters before his Miami departure.
- President Donald Trump has long favored gold since his real estate era and during his second term expanded gilded White House decor, promoting it as 24-karat gold leaf.
- Beginning as three sheets of printer paper, President Donald Trump replaced the initial placeholder with a finished gilded installation using the Mar-a-Lago club logo typeface.
- US lawmakers criticized the timing of the sign amid a shutdown leaving 43 million Americans without SNAP, while Davis Ingle, White House spokesperson, defended it as improving White House aesthetics.
- If made permanent, the sign would join other changes including demolition of the East Wing for a planned $300 million ballroom and Rose Garden renovations inspired by Palm Beach, Florida club Mar-a-Lago.
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While he renovates the White House to his own taste
Now, gold sign outside Oval Office is slammed: Why is Trump obsessed with all that glitters?
Donald Trump’s fascination with gold goes all the way back to his days in New York in the 1980s as a real estate developer. His Trump Tower on 5th Avenue, Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, resorts at Mar-a-Lago and Doral and even his private plane are filled with gold-coloured and gold-accented fixtures, an aesthetic he has now brought to the White House
A gold-enveloped sign stands in front of the most famous office in the world - and reminds critics fatally of the aesthetics of a mafia restaurant. The lavish signage at the White House triggered a wave of ridicule.
Trump Adds Ugly Gold Sign So No One Misses ‘The Oval Office’
Trump adds ugly gold sign so no one misses ‘The Oval Office.’ His latest White House renovation is a taped-up sign with ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ energy. If the ‘Presidential Wall of Fame’ is any indication, it will soon be permanent.
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