It’s starting to become increasingly clear that Trump’s mission to renovate and rename America is simply the way he copes with the reality he’s always trying to evade. And that’s also why he seethed so hard over Barack Obama likening his Oval Office design to a Cheesecake Factory opened by Saddam Hussein. He really didn’t appreciate his predecessor breaking the fourth wall of his delusion like that.
And now that he’s struggling to grapple with the midterm elections ending in a crushing landslide for Democrats after all that campaigning and rallying he did for his sycophants in the GOP, he needs a new distraction and a new way to leave his mark after being so thoroughly and publicly rejected by U.S. voters.
So, he signed a proclamation that he says will preserve the Oval Office and Cabinet Room as a national monument in order to prevent any future president from, well, doing to his gold-encrusted office-slash-sleepy time room what he did to the White House’s East Wing, basically.
Much like his ballroom-slash-bunker, his botched reflecting pool, and his fight to add his name to the Kennedy Center, this move is just a continuation of Trump’s obsession with doing things nobody asked for while claiming everyone had been asking for it for generations.
He’s really out here pretending the Oval Office is in danger of being torn down once he’s gone. I mean, if I were the incoming president, I would definitely sage everything and burn all the furniture he got his Tang-flavored butt shavings all over, but still.
“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 said Thursday. “We like the Oval Office, and it’s a symbol, like the White House itself.”
According to PBS News, the proclamation does not prevent future presidents from restyling the Oval Office, as incoming presidents have always done, and it also doesn’t prevent a successor from rolling back the proclamation itself, which essentially makes it a useless, unenforceable non-proclamation, which honestly makes it the perfect gesture to symbolize his entire presidential legacy.
Source: Trump Signs Proclamation To Make Oval Office A National Monument, But Why?
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