President Donald Trump has continued his campaign to transform the White House with two unusual additions: permanent signs outside the Oval Office and the West Wing.
The gold signs are in the same cursive script as Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade, and were first noticed by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday.
“It looks like the Oval Office sign has been made permanent,“ Collins wrote on X. ”There’s also another outside the entrance to the West Wing.”
The Oval Office sign is a finalized version of the makeshift sign that was installed last month and made up of three pieces of paper with the words “The Oval Office” printed on them.
The signs are just the latest in a long line of controversial changes the president has made to the White House, including demolishing the entire East Wing to install a $300 million ballroom and paving over the Rose Garden. He also transformed the Lincoln Bathroom into one made entirely of marble, which he claimed was “very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
Never one to miss an opportunity to troll the president, California Governor Gavin Newsom quickly reposted Collins’ post with a screenshot of a Google search for “do you need to label things for old people with memory issues?”
The president has been plagued by speculation that he is in a state of mental decline, with both medical professionals and even his niece attempting to make the case that Trump is exhibiting signs of dementia.
The White House has tried to quash rumors about Trump’s health by publicizing the positive results from his annual physical. But their plan backfired when, in late October, Trump blurted out that he had had an MRI, which was not disclosed in the White House’s report.
On Dec. 1, after weeks of sidestepping questions about the imaging, the White House finally released a memo from the president’s physician claiming the scan was merely a preventative measure given his age. Unfortunately, medical experts were quick to point out that advanced imaging has never been a standard part of presidential physicals.
Trump had previously told reporters that he had “no idea” what the MRI analyzed, but that his doctor had said “it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor.”
“I have the physical every year and the result was outstanding… I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyze, they analyzed it well and they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.”
He has also repeatedly bragged about the score he received on a mental acuity test he took, telling reporters, “As you probably heard, I aced it. I got a perfect score. I got the highest score. I got a perfect score. And the only reason I tell you that is it’s one subject unlike Biden and others that you could take off your plate.”
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