During his first live national address about the Iran war, President Donald Trump diverged from serious matters to extensively discuss gold drapes he personally selected and a planned White House ballroom. While awarding Medals of Honor to three Army soldiers, Trump pointed to the drapes concealing construction and boasted about the future ballroom entrance, claiming he could save money by leaving the decorative drapery. Social media commenters expressed shock at the disconnect. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joked about "drapes of wrath." Mother Jones editor David Corn noted that Trump spent more time discussing interior design than honoring fallen soldiers. Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacob called Trump "mentally unfit." The New Republic's Osita Nwanevu highlighted the contradiction between Trump's assertion that he doesn't get bored and his tangent about decorative choices while Americans die in combat.
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