President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office
President Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday to turn the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room into a federal landmark and a National Monument under the Antiquities Act.
The proclamation will turn the White House areas into “a landmark for the ages,” he said. “We’re making it a national monument, and it will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape.”
Trump has made several improvements to the Oval Office during his second term, including adorning the room with 24-karat gold fixtures and accents.
Democrats and Barack Obama have attacked Trump over his White House renovations, with Obama comparing it to the Cheesecake Factory. “What’s up with the gold? Everything, more gold! He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory. It’s gold everywhere!” Obama said recently. Trump has slammed the classless former president, saying he didn’t notice the decay of the White House.
“He doesn’t understand it because he’s not a smart guy. Let me tell you, in my opinion, he’s not smart at all because the way he ran the country, only a stupid person would run the country like that,” Trump said of Obama after his attacks on the White House renovations.
“It won’t be able to be taken down, destroyed, touched, or anything else,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
“I just thought it was very important that nobody be allowed to come in and take it down and try and do something with it because every once in a while, they’ll look and they’ll say, ‘Oh, maybe what we’ll do is we’ll put some glass up that’s a little bit better or something.’ And I say, ‘No, you’re not going to do anything. We’re going to leave this as it is.’ It’s a great landmark, and that goes for the Cabinet Room too.”
“So, we’re going to be declaring it a national monument, and we’re going to send it over to Congress to have it ratified,” he noted.
Trump added that the bill, when signed by Congress, would mean “no major modification without the approval of Congress.”
“So if they want to say let’s not have oval anymore, let’s make it square, what happens is they have to go back to Congress, and hopefully the Congress, the people in Congress, will be smart enough not to let that happen,” Trump said.
“And that includes also the cabinet room. You know, just we’ve had great victories in these rooms, and they’re so important. I mean, I have people coming. The biggest business people, you know, they have beautiful offices; they walk in here, and they say, ‘This is incredible.’”
“It’s the whole, it’s the whole aura of the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room,” he added.
Watch:
The proclamation reads:
The Oval Office stands as one of the most recognizable and historically significant spaces in the United States. Since its establishment in its present location and form during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it has served as the principal working office of the President of the United States. Decisions of profound national and international consequence have been made within its walls. It has hosted heads of state, shaped the daily conduct of the executive branch, and become a symbol of the American Presidency itself.
The room’s distinctive oval design, first introduced in the West Wing under President William Howard Taft and refined in the early 1930s, reflects both practical and ceremonial purposes. Its architecture, finishes of lasting character, and continuous association with the Presidency give the Oval Office exceptional and unique value in illustrating the history of the United States. The Oval Office possesses an unmatched and unique combination of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and an association with historical events that are embedded in our national consciousness.
The White House and its grounds are Federal property administered as part of the President’s Park by the National Park Service and are already recognized as a National Historic Landmark. Nonetheless, the Oval Office merits specific recognition and protective management as a discrete historic structure of national significance.
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