All posts tagged "Oval Office"

White House officials clashed in the Oval Office over whether President Donald Trump should take a larger knife to the country's largest medical research agency.

According to reporting by The Washington Post, the dispute pitted White House budget director Russell Vought against Jay Bhattacharya, who leads the National Institutes of Health. Three people familiar with the feud told The Post that Vought accused the NIH of bankrolling "woke" initiatives that cut against Trump's agenda.

Vought argued ongoing spending clashed with a Trump executive order that bars "equity-related" grants and contracts, sources told The Post. Bhattacharya defended how his roughly $47 billion agency awards its money....

The internet mocked President Donald Trump and the Oval Office after he commented Thursday about how the historic location can often leave people feeling confused.

Trump made the remark during a reception for the reigning Major League Baseball World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the Rose Garden at the White House.

"People walk into the Oval Office and no matter who they are, they just sort of feel different, and it's a great place to negotiate because everyone is all discombobulated when they walk in, and it’s a great time for me to negotiate with them," Trump said. "So we do that as often as possible.”...

President Donald Trump's Oval Office design was criticized on Wednesday after the White House tried to boast about the revamp.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino shared a video this week highlighting the gold touches and a number of model planes across the historic room, The Daily Beast reported.

But the move backfired, with commentators ridiculing the new look....

A CNN pundit couldn't believe the description of President Donald Trump's super glue fiasco revealed in an upcoming book.

The upcoming book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailed how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into the Oval Office to find Trump "clutching a tube of super glue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantle."

SE Cupp, a conservative political commentator, described the episode as "unfathomable" during an appearance on CNN on Thursday....

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) was clear on Friday that President Donald Trump's design aesthetic was not his style.

In an interview with TMZ, the Trump antagonist and Senate Armed Services Committee member argued that Trump's vision for the White House wasn't exactly aligned with how he viewed it.

"I think every president is going to leave their mark, and some choose policy and some choose paint," Kelly said. "He seems to be like a paint guy, he likes gold paint. I don't think that's real gold. I think you buy that stuff from Hobby Lobby and you paint it gold."...

A former White House cardiologist says Donald Trump "needs to be evaluated" after a recent appearance in the Oval Office.

The president was seen surrounded by a group in the office that included Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr., and Republican Party representative Ben Carson. Despite the large crowd around him, Trump was spotted seemingly falling asleep as he signed off on a policy to bring whole milk back into schools.

A clip of Trump seemingly closing his eyes and nodding slightly has gone viral on X, and Jonathan Reiner believes it is a sign the president needs a check up. Reiner, the former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, took to X and said an evaluation of the current president is necessary. ...