Before-and-After Photos Show Changes Trump’s White House Decor Changes

The rug, which featured the presidential seal in the center, was designed by Kaki Hockersmith, an interior designer based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The rug’s design includes the presidential seal, a sunbeam pattern, and olive branches along the border as a symbol of peace.

Trump also used the rug during his first term.

Biden displayed an American flag and a flag with the presidential seal.

Trump’s Oval Office features the flags of the Army, the Marine Corps, and the Navy.

The crown molding on the ceiling matched the cream wallpaper.

The gold embellishments matched the gold curtains, which remained in place from Biden’s presidency.

Biden also hung portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton together to symbolize the benefits of different opinions, as well as portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Trump added more portraits with decorative frames to create an Oval Office gallery wall. He also replaced Biden’s portrait of FDR with one of George Washington and displayed historic gold urns and baskets from the White House collection on the mantle.

Trump’s love of gold decor is well-known. His Trump Tower penthouse in New York City features numerous gilded ceilings, furniture pieces, and artwork. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, also includes a ballroom covered in gold from floor to ceiling.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the plaster relief of the presidential seal to the Oval Office during a 1934 White House renovation.

Both the seal and the stars surrounding it were covered in gold paint.

The hyperrealistic portrait, painted by Robert McCurdy, was unveiled at the White House in 2023.

Artist Marc Lipp painted a rendering of an Associated Press photo that captured Trump raising his fist in the air following an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Before it was used for press conferences and events, first lady Ellen Wilson originally designed the outdoor space as a formal flower garden in 1913.

First lady Melania Trump added a limestone border around the lawn in 2020.

Trump told Fox News that the grass in the Rose Garden was impractical for large events because it stayed wet when it rained and was too soft for attendees who wore high heels.

“The grass just doesn’t work,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in March.

Workers began transforming the lawn into a patio in June, replacing the grass with concrete and stone tiles. “The Rose Garden Club” was completed in August.

The East Room, the largest state room in the White House, has a seating capacity of 200 people. When Biden hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in 2023, he held the state dinner in a tent outside the White House to accommodate the larger crowd of over 300.

The 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which the White House called a “much-needed and exquisite addition,” will cost approximately $200 million to construct. Trump and other “patriot donors” will foot the bill for the project, the White House said.

Located in the West Wing near the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room overlooks the Rose Garden and features a large, oval-shaped mahogany table purchased by President Richard Nixon in 1970, according to Obama’s archived White House website.

Seating at the table is assigned in order of when each department was established, with the oldest departments sitting nearest to the president.

Trump chose portraits of past presidents, including George Washington, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower, to decorate the Cabinet Room.

“The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures and artwork,” Trump told reporters in July. “And I picked it all myself, I’m very proud of it.”

The eagle sconces were installed as part of a 2004 refurbishment of the Cabinet Room that also included a new rug, curtains, and paint color.

“Some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in September. “Foreign Leaders, and everyone else, ‘freak out’ when they see the quality and beauty.”