Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday that he says will turn the Oval Office and the adjacent Cabinet Room into national monuments. The declaration will reportedly prohibit any future presidents from tearing down or making major modifications to the Oval Office or Cabinet Room without approval of Congress. Since returning to office, the US president has transformed the Oval Office with gold accents and statuettes, portraits of famous Americans pulled from storage and a copy of the Declaration of Independence that hangs on the wall.
The redesign has drawn criticism, including from the former president Barack Obama, who recently joked that ‘he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Just gold everywhere.’
