Trump Proudly Shows Off White House Makeover to Fox News – Viewers React
What To Know
- Laura Ingraham toured the White House with President Trump, highlighting the gold-themed decor and jokingly asking if it was purchased from Home Depot.
- Social media users and critics mocked the Oval Office’s gold appliques for resembling inexpensive mouldings sold at the chain store.
- Some criticized Trump for flaunting lavish gold decorations during a cost-of-living crisis, viewing it as out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham recently got to tour the White House and ask President Donald Trump about the inspiration behind his decor. And critics had a field day blasting the “mobster” makeover as “ugly.”
In an “exclusive White House tour” set to air on tonight’s (Tuesday, November 11) episode of The Ingraham Angle, the long-time conservative news anchor will get up close to Trump’s gold-plated Oval Office, which has been fitted with gold appliques, gold-leaf edging, and various gold ornaments.
Ingraham shared a clip of the upcoming tour video on her Facebook page on Monday (November 10), during which Trump shows off his golden decor. “You can’t imitate gold, real gold,” the President says in the clip. “There’s no paint that imitates gold.”
“So these aren’t from Home Depot?” Ingraham quips.
“Nah, this is not Home Depot stuff,” Trump responds.
Ingraham was seemingly referencing claims from earlier this year when social media users pointed out the resemblance between the Oval Office appliques and those on sale for $58 at Home Depot. Inside Edition even aired a segment about the similarities between the White House decor and the mouldings sold at Home Depot.
Critics had a field day on social media, with one X user writing, “Imagine running the free world and still decorating like a broke mobster’s wife in Jersey. $58 Home Depot appliques in the Oval Office, spray-painted gold. Very on brand for Trump: cheap, fake and f***ing ugly.”
“Nothing says fake AF human being than trying to claim everything in the Oval Office is gold when it was purchased at Home Depot,” said another.
“His real gold is the equivalent of his real tan,” joked one user.
Some left playful reviews on the Home Depot website, with one commenter writing under the applique moulding, “My boss is image-obsessed & understands that when it comes to decorating, more is MORE! AND he’s convinced it’s all real gold!”
According to The Daily Beast, a White House official previously told the outlet, “It’s made with the highest quality gold and he’s paying for it himself.”
Others slammed Trump for showing off his gold-coated Oval Office amid a cost-of-living crisis.
“While the country scrapes by on empty promises, Trump’s turning the Oval Office into a gaudy gold-plated shrine to his ego, because nothing says “America First” like Marie Antoinette’s budget for moldings,” wrote one X user.
“So tacky & gaudy…while Americans starve,” said another.
“Imagine looking at this literal golden plated room and thinking ‘that’s what I voted for, that’s my god-emperor, silver spoon, multi-billionaire, born into extreme wealth. That’s the man who cares about the little guy and knows what poor people struggle with,'” added one user.
Another quipped, “Trump makes Liberace seem like an understated minimalist.”
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F
Tacky just like him
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Gaudy.
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Hideous.
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T
Its beautiful. Very classy like his family.
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B
Can't tell if ur serious or not! Lol
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R
Looks exactly in history, what dictators would have in their palaces.
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FUITA
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R
Classless response. Just like the solid gold toilet he had in his New York city penthouse.
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T
What does that mean?
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It's vulgar.
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T
Gaudy, Gaudy. This house belongs to us , taxpayers. Disgusting Mess!!
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C
It reminded me of Iraq, going into Sadam Hussains palaces with gold everywhere, gold toilets and sinks. Down the street you have the Iraqi people living in filthy poverty. Sad that the USA is looking like a third world country with a dictator.
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F
You really think this gaudy display is what being powerful is about?
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S
Wonder what people would be commenting if this was Obama ????
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It would never be.
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C
Wake the hell up he's the most destructive man on the planet, just like he's trying to destroy the White House not to fear that we will take all that crap down, take his name off. Everything is trying to put it on because the Epstein files will finally come out. Unredacted
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M
Each president redoes the White House to his taste. It won't please everyone. Everyone raved about Jackie Kennedy's decor. Not everyone liked it but the Kennedy's had the money to buy and use French decorators. Not USA but French. To each his own.
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L
Tacky tacky tacky.
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D
Exactly! 💯 Hideous!
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D
Not Home Depot? 😂 More like gaudy plastic Dollar Store trim with a can of cheap gold spray paint!🫣🤢
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M
He's imitating Putin, someone can replace Trump in the picture and put Putin in it and you'd think that was taken in the Kremlin.
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D
Whether you love it is not the point. He’s making the “people’s house” look like a king lives there. We don’t have a king! Check the constitution!!! It’s an anti-American thing to do.
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BS!1 The claim refers to a real proposal in
Oregon, though it is a CITIZEN- LED BALLOT INITIATIVE rather than a bill introduced by the Democratic Party. Central Oregon Daily +2
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G
You’re. Too.
Nice try, though.
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C
Well...it was already said in 2016
Bunch of deplorables.
Thank God I'm not American.
Dump.
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It hurts my eyes to look at it. Tacky & gaudy. Just yuck.
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K
Beautiful, just like Donald!!!!!
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trashy gold to put Trumps mark on everything reminds me off my dog he does the same thing
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C
The Oval Office now looks gaudy and lacks taste. It’s like a cheap bordello. It doesn’t matter if it’s real gold. It’s overdone and very ugly.
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D
😂They said the Capitol, not the Capitol building. You just enjoy spamming everyone's comments with contrary argumentative statements, no matter how untrue or ridiculous. Enjoy your $7 gas & unaffordable groceries, Mr Contrarian 🤣
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D
Faith?? 🤔 Such a good little christian hypocrite 😂
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J
The White House belongs to the American people. The Trumps are residents and not even close to royalty!!!! And the White House is not a freaking palace!!
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it looks like a bordello
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D
Well his daddy did run brothels. It's been dirty money since the drumpf's immigrated.
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B
Dumbest thing ever to happen to our beloved Capitol. Horrific 🥲🥲🥲🥲 tacky and gaudy
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L
I think al you Dems are idiots and want to be ruled by communist . GOD BLESS AMERICA and DJT bringing common sense and love of Faith, Family and Country.
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D
😂😂😂 Pretty sure "al the dems" feel the same way about you 🙄
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Waste of space and time for this clip!
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It is privately funded so no, it’s not starving Americans.
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Don’t you believe it! If T says it, it’s a lie. He is genetically incapable of speaking the truth.
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It’s looks gaudy and very “new money.” Did he just win the lotto and hire the tackiest home decorator?
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Where did he get the funds for all that gold. Tax payers? The more the gold weighs, the more costly. Gold is heavy and that looks 24 karat
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He "toured & inspected" Fort Knox recently. Where do you think a thief & grifter would get actual gold? 🤔
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Nope, not Home Depot. It's Lowes! LOL
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More like Dollar Tree & cheap spray paint 😂
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W
Trump GIVES his own money to classify the Whitehouse while everyone else like the Clintons stole from the Whitehouse. Just an amazing giving man.
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Hmm, fit for a king, right?
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Quit looking in the mirror
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Democrats are just as tasteless in decor, than they are in politics.
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Bet you are taking notes to redo your own house
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W
Amazing. Exactly what a great building representing the nation should look like. Democrats could never even imagine something this powerful. Those that hate it could only be describe as your standard communists.
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I LOVE what he has done and will do. I think its beautiful. I can definitely see which way tvinsider leans. How about posting at least one supportive comment instead of bashing him with all negative comments and especially ones with the F word. You must be desperate for readers if you have to stoop that low.
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Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, some beholders are blind to the irony.
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J
I think it’s absolutely amazing. The fact that he is using his own money reflects his love for the people and our amazing country.
I am more proud to be an American under his leadership.
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L
I know of a few cracked nuts, that would believe that crap. thx, even maga people are realizing
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D
You seriously think it is his own money? I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell that might interest you.
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Ocean front property in Arizona??
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I think it looks great .I love gold and it is such a royal look . Look at all the gold at at the royal family
Had on their carriages .,
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Ffs barbera.
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So you are admitting that Trump’s already a king? We don’t have a royal family in American on purpose. The founding fathers were very clear on that. It should not be in this country that the president acts or decorates like a king. It’s anti-American to do so. Just more proof he’s the most anti-American, anti-constitution “president” (king) we’ve ever had.
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So parties can be held in an ugly tent. Thank god a new ballroom. This is United States, not a campground.
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It looks great? Why would we want a "royal" look for our republic? The White House does not belong to Trump. It belongs to the American people -- he is just a tenant. I am sure that this faux-king look will get cleared out by some future president. Trump claims this is not Home Depot appliques but the resemblance to what I could buy and spray paint suggests this is yet another one of his thousands of lies to us. It makes the Oval office look beyond tacky.
I feel sad for you that you are so easily swayed by a bit of gold spray paint. I have done paint finishes for a living. These appliques do not appear to be gold leafed and certainly are not solid gold. The extreme uniformity of the surface looks like spray paint to me in all the photos I have seen. I will concede that perhaps someone lied to Trump and told him it was real gold. With his advancing dementia, I can see how he might easily be swayed into believing that or he just assumed it was real and never checked. In any event, I would be shocked if there is a fraction of an ounce of real gold on those additions he had made to the Oval Office.
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It is so gorgeous and classy, something dems never had.
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Ha ha
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Nothing gorgeous about that, Just UGLY. Looks like gold spray paint on plaster. It was even gaudy in the 70's when gold was a fast passing (thank God) fad.
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T
I agree! Dems could use a master class in Trumpism.
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