Trump used – A forthcoming book reports President Donald Trump personally used super glue to mount golden embellishments on the Oval Office fireplace mantle, after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noticed the president decorating. The book also describes Trump’
One morning in the White House, Karoline Leavitt looked up and saw something she wasn’t likely to find surprising: President Donald Trump working on the Oval Office himself.
A forthcoming book. “Regime Change” by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. describes how Leavitt noticed Trump using super glue to attach golden embellishments to the Oval Office fireplace mantle. The report says the sight of the president squeezing glue onto gilded appliqués and mounting them on the wall “surprised no one” in his inner circle.
Trump’s taste for controlling the details—down to the method—has been reflected elsewhere, the book says. It describes him adding similar decor and embellishments just outside the doors of the White House. It also points to major landscaping and construction changes. including the decision to pave over the Rose Garden and turn it into a “club. ” likened to the venue at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The book’s account doesn’t stop at decorating. It says Trump knocked down the entire East Wing to build a giant ballroom—an undertaking he has publicly obsessed over—but that project is now entangled in legal action.
Taken together. the image in the book is less about a single sticky moment and more about a pattern: the Oval Office as a canvas. the president as the person holding the tools. and the physical transformation of the White House pushing forward even as legal complications swirl around at least one major build. Even the simple act of applying glue becomes part of the story of how the renovations are made and who makes them.
For Leavitt, the scene was immediate and personal. The book frames it as something that didn’t need reassurance—because in Trump’s orbit, even the most literal version of presidential aesthetics is treated as expected. “Regime Change” is set to come out next week.
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so he really just glued gold stuff to the mantle? wild.
I mean it’s probably fake dramatic writing but also… why is everyone acting like the Rose Garden being paved is NBD? Like that’s literally history. Next they’ll say he painted over the walls too.
Wait so Karoline Leavitt SAW him doing this with super glue… and that’s the proof of something? I don’t get it. Also didn’t Trump already knock down the East Wing? Or was that a different year? Feels like they just mash random building stuff together with a glue story.
I can’t even picture it, like the Oval Office is supposed to be serious and he’s out here squeezing glue like it’s a craft table. Then they say club Rose Garden and giant ballroom and legal stuff, and I’m like… okay so the White House is basically turning into Mar-a-Lago again. Not saying I’m surprised, just seems tacky and also questionable when there’s lawsuits hanging around.