Trump escalates push for another bizarre White House renovation as skeptics depart: NYT
President Donald Trump is pressing harder on a White House makeover he's pitched for years as the aides who resisted it thin out.
Trump has repeatedly told aides he wants reporters moved out of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room so he can bring back the indoor swimming pool Franklin D. Roosevelt installed in 1933, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
In one of former press secretary Karoline Leavitt's last Oval Office meetings with Trump in late August, the president urged her in front of senior aides to relocate the press corps, telling her it would be her "last legacy," according to The Times. Three people familiar with the talks said Trump made the request of her several times over a span of months, but the idea went nowhere before she stepped down Aug. 27....