In a sane country, this latest brag would be the kiss of death for his entire party.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is standing by President Donald Trump’s latest, and most eyebrow-raising, renovation yet: a full-blown marble makeover of a White House bathroom. Posting on social media Friday afternoon, Leavitt gushed over the president’s flashy revamp, writing, “President Trump is making the People’s House more elegant and beautiful for generations of Americans to come!”
While we’re in the midst of a government shutdown, while we’re expected to support a budget that destroys health care and brings great profit to insurance companies and billionaires or starve the poor (or both!), Trump is focused on interior decorating and remodeling a bathroom, and on tearing down part of the White House and building a lavish ballroom.
While I agree that the original institutional green bathroom looked dated, I A) expect the president of the United States to be focused on more significant issues, and B) and think the boring, ticky-tacky idea of slapping marble and gold all over everything is no less cliched. I’d say I want the next president of the USA to bring on a wrecking ball and strip out all the gold plated fittings, except that what really should happen is that they will instead focus on repairing all the deep structural damage done to the country, cleaning up the raging corruption and firing the carpetbaggers reigning over our institutions.
Does the current president have nothing better to do?
I kind of like the green.
What is that below the windows? A tub for washing snakes?
And if anyone wants to know about what the bathroom situation actually was during the Lincoln administration, ask historians has you covered
Tres Marie Antoinette vibes.
Even if she actually didn’t say what she’s famously thought to have said :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette#In_popular_culture
Even en francais non anglais..
A clear glass long window next to the toilet?
That’s an interesting and bold design decision.
You answered your own question here.
No, he doesn’t have anything better to do.
When he isn’t focused on wrecking the Whitehouse, he is wrecking the USA.
When he isn’t wrecking the USA, he is trying to wreck the rest of the world.
He is obviously failing mentally.
I’m sure if you looked at his daily routine, there would be a lot of time spent in a daze, zoning out, with nothing much going on.
Reminds me of :
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tt3Znms6ons
When he isn’t wrecking the Whitehouse, here is Trump’s latest project.
He wants to start a war on Nigeria because they are killing xians.
Needless to say, there are 5 or 10 things wrong with this plan.
.1. Nigeria isn’t killing xians.
In fact, the whole country is about 1/2 xians.
There is a Muslim terrorist group in the north, Boku Haram that is occasionally killing xians. The Nigerian government has been trying to stop them for years.
This is a guerrilla movement and the Nigerian government isn’t known for its ability to do much of anything.
.2. Nigeria is a big country with 232 million people.
This isn’t Panama, Grenada, or Greenland.
The amount of resources we would need to invade and conquer Nigeria is orders of magnitude greater.
The whole idea looks a lot like the Vietnam war and we all know how well that worked out.
.3. Trump is senile and probably can’t find Nigeria on a map.
His puppet masters likely were the ones who came up with the idea and fed him some misleading videos.
I’m sure in a week or two, he will have forgotten the whole idea and we will be invading someone else, somewhere, for some reason.
Very likely Venezuela.
andywuk @ #4 — I believe the window was already there.
I wonder what about the toilet was so horrifying to Leavitt. Perhaps not having a tank meant she couldn’t lean back?
Isn’t it fitting that toilet paper plays such a prominent role in the current government.
larpar #1: I believe that’s the central heating and air conditioning built into the walls around the same time as this bathroom was fitted in to the green. That was one of the real intents of the Truman era retrofitting.
acroyear @ #9
Thanks.
Wait…she was HORRIFIED that the toilet was a commercial model? The way Trump eats, it needs all the flush power it can muster.
I honestly think this woman is deranged.
I hope that at least he installed a Japanese super-toilet with built-in bidet. I’m sure Abraham Lincoln would have enjoyed that.
Huh? Did he renovate it with used marble?
More about the liar
“Trump LOSES IT in HIGHLY EDITED 60 Minutes Interview”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=swuvpgpSfzE
73 minute interview edited down to 28 minutes of BS.
Oh, I’m sure the real curent POTUS Stephen Miller is busying himself with a lot of other different things whilst letting his demented meat puppet play home renovator..
Donald Trump strikes me as the sort of person who would prefer to go in a pot and summon a slave to carry his waste away.
Reginald Selkirk — I think he’s confused about the marble. According to my highly reliable AI resource the Lincoln toilet…apparently this toilet is part of the Lincoln bedroom…did not have marble walls. It was described as “plain” (here).
I wonder if they disturbed the ghost.
I was curious about toilets in the White House. Turns out the first flushing toilet was installed in the White House in 1853 during Millard Fillmore’s term.
More DJT confusion.
‘He believes this bullshit!’
“We Watched Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview. It’s Nuts.”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=iSafCXk9HD4
Hmm.
“Marbling the White House Bathroom during a government shutdown” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “fiddling while Rome burns.”
I am so angry and fearful for what is left of society in this country. I can’t stand the ALWAYS BULLSHITTING AND LYING xtian terrorist ahole leavitt. With the cheap, home-depot gold plated tacky trailer-trash crap everywhere and the destruction of the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House that he promised not to touch and the HUGE $350million ‘tRUMP ballroom’, we all know the White House is no longer ‘the peoples’ house’, even though that is what it has been called by so many previous presidents.
It seems there is no bottom to the DEATH SPIRAL
Rather than take a crowbar to his outrageously tacky “upgrades”, I’d rather see at least some of them kept as a cautionary tale/source of amusement for future generations. I can think of no better legacy than to have tour groups snickering at the things he was most proud of.
The destruction of the East wing was all illegal, not that anyone is enforcing the Rule of Law anymore.
Trump doesn’t own the Whitehouse. It is owned by the American people.
What really struck me is how unnecessary it was to destroy the East Wing of the Whitehouse.
If he wants to build a $350 million ballroom, fine, whatever.
There was space around the Whitehouse to build the ballroom without tearing down 1/3 of the Whitehouse.
Trump didn’t need to tear down part of the Whitehouse to build this ballroom.
AFAICT, he tore down the East wing simply because he could. It is just vandalism.
PS Who wants a ballroom anyway?
There are many ballrooms already in Washington DC.
The Kennedy Center for the performing arts isn’t too far from the Whitehouse.
I wonder what sort of media they are feeding him at the Whitehouse. We know he consumes large amounts of Fox News but to be this delusional about idiotic “improvements” while the actual concerns for the general populous sinks further into obscurity is terrifying.
@ 19
Depends on how well the resonant bowl and resident’s bowels harmonize…
… and if that doesn’t stimulate an abhorrent image imagine what he could be fiddling with in there.
@ 22
The East Wing had the office of Michelle Obama in it. That is probably the real reason that it had to be completely destroyed.
While I agree that the original institutional green bathroom looked dated
I think it’s great, actually. It looks like a (very) nice mid-century style bathroom, and one which has been cared-for extraordinarily well. If I were buying a house that had that exact bathroom in it, I’d be over the moon about it.
Sure, the fixtures had a slightly old-fashioned, but that’s quite appropriate to a location like the Whitehouse residence, which should have something of a “living-museum” feel. (Forcing guests to use George Washington’s chamber pot or something might have been taking the living-museum thing too far, but that’s not what we had here. The old version was still essentially a modern bathroom with all the normal conveniences.)
In fact, mid-century is in. That old bathroom was probably more fashionable now than almost at any time in the last 50 years, mint green and all.
@ 26
Agreed, the old-fashioned look has actual soul and character. It seems like everyone with extreme money loses touch with what makes interior design pretty. “Oh whats that? A room that isn’t covered in the most ugly and decadent materials? That cannot be in Trumps America.” Even so far as replacing the trash can to be gold colored and not silver. Makes me think of the posts where they brag about adding “real gold” to decorations in the oval office.
The green of the original design was dated, and far more suited to the Federalist era style of the White House than this execrable marble-clad modern ugly style. Ugh!!! All that tacky gold!
Marble is indeed very slippery when wet, so we can hope that he slips and knocks himself out on the new toilet.
If it’s not right time for the guillotines now, there will never be one.
Tethys beat me to it, but I might add that as a disabled person, the marble floors being installed in the White House horrify me.
There is no chance he uses this bathroom. Where is the assist rail for the toilet? Where is the pull cord for a nurse?
@28 Tethys
I doubt that he will ever use it himself. The Lincoln Bedroom is where guests are put up.
Reginald Selkirk @ #32 — Perhaps he’ll have a special guest stay in the Lincoln Bedroom and he’ll visit her there. He’s so unhinged, I wouldn’t put it past him.
“Does the current president have nothing better to do?”
Shhhh. While he’s wasting relatively small amounts of money redecorating, he’s doing the least amount of damage possible for him. Anything else he does will be way worse.
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Would-be mobster, is what he is.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/04/australia-politics-live-keating-trump-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-net-zero-policy-coalition-question-time-energy-policy-ntwnfb
@Reginald 32
True, he probably doesn’t use this bathroom, but a girl can still dream. I’m sure his tacky marble clad vision extends to the living quarters master bathroom too.
I suspect that putting all that weight into an historic building is going to create structural problems in the future. The only place I’ve ever seen a faux-historic bathroom that was entirely built of marble was in a 1800’s chateau in France.
The current owners had to remove them completely because all that weight on the upper floors was bowing the main support beams, which would eventually destroy the whole building.
@36:
That might have been true of the structure in, say, 1945, but the current building structure isn’t really “historical”: After Margaret Truman’s piano leg fell through a rotted out floor in 1948, they entirely rebuilt it. Gutted everything but the outer brick shell, and then replaced the original wood structure with big steel beams and reinforced concrete. Tastelessness aside, you could probably build that bathroom out of solid gold bricks without causing too much trouble.
That ~1950 reno is probably when the original green mid-century bathroom went in. The pictures of the gutting/demo are pretty wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction (Unlike Trump, though, Truman actually had a good reason to do it.)
Marble veneer is a thing.
Yes, marble veneer is a thing, but that isn’t veneer.
It’s 3/4 slab marble, judging by the shelves.
Current price on this particular marble slab is $320 per square ft.
https://www.artistictile.com/products/statuario-slstatuario?srsltid=AfmBOoosvU4hownT5B3m2MrWYdy4pFbRqk48jwpMlvgth4RZHd5kq3wV
There are plenty of other beautiful marbles such as Carrera extra white that could have been installed that cost between 50 to 70 per square foot, but he needed to install the most expensive one because he is that vapid.
https://www.artistictile.com/search?view=shop&q=bianco+carrera#/filter:ss_subcategory:Slab/filter:ss_stone_types:Marble
These people confuse the hell out of me. Mid-century decor is out, but taking us back to 1950s society is in?
The headline for the next post could have been used for this one.
“There are plenty of other beautiful marbles such as Carrera extra white that could have been installed that cost between 50 to 70 per square foot, but he needed to install the most expensive one because he is that vapid.”
Well, he’s not personally paying for it, so why should he stinge?
Also, the very point is conspicuous consumption!
Next architecture stop: The ‘Ruinenprinzip’: Monuments to his honor should be built so sturdy that they will look impressive when they are in ruins.
There is still some examples of that left from the 1930s.
If he actually had anything that passes as thoughts anymore, he could have used the same local marble that is all over various Washington DC monuments and was used to carve the statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial. It’s called Georgia white.
Instead he is bragging about his really ugly renovation because he used the most expensive imported Italian marble.
I think the toilet and the radiator cover are the only parts that aren’t an affront to tasteful, period appropriate design. Besides the tacky gold and marble itself, I especially hate the wall sconces and mirror.
@ devnll : “Shhhh. While he’s wasting relatively small amounts of money redecorating, he’s doing the least amount of damage possible for him. Anything else he does will be way worse.”
Golfing? he does an awful lot of that and while he cheats at it – of c – it seems about the least harmful thing and closest thing to a reasonable healthy hobby that he has.
@25. Alan G. Humphrey : “The East Wing had the office of Michelle Obama in it. That is probably the real reason that it had to be completely destroyed.”
All too likely that is. Horribly plausible.
StevoR, really? “Horribly plausible” was a joke. I hope, anyway.
But no.
Horribly convenient, is what it was.
(What else would he demolish?)
Joining the chorus of people who thought the original green color was lovely and did not need “improving”.
@ 31 Agreed, there is no way he uses that particular bathroom. Judging from the size of the commode and its porcelain composition, I would expect it to either crumble under pressure, crash into the floor below or else become an instant suppository.
Given his penchant for McDonald’s in particular and fast food in general, one imagines that whatever bathroom he does use is furnished with an extra wide titanium steel commode with seat belts anchored directly through the floor into steel I-beams.
@44 Yeah, that cheap gold sconce/wood frame mirror combo is the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. If he is going to vomit cheap gold trim/accessories all over the White House, couldn’t he at least match the cheap fake gold crap?
I find it interesting that Trumplethinskin had his Marie Antoinette moment over a bathroom, of all things.
It’s so obvious the senile moron wants to live like the Bourbon kings (Louis XIV in particular) without the slightest awareness of how the French Bourbon kings ended. Ironically, he rode an angry populist wave into the White House a la Robespierre with zero awareness of how Robespierre ended. (Probably with zero awareness of who Robespierre actually was.)
Predictably, public outrage finally hit when the funds for SNAP/EBT ran out 11/1/25 and the Obamacare/ACA 2026 insurance premiums prices dropped same day.
Bring on the tumbrels.
@ ^ John Morales : Democracy? Hopes of taking real Climate Action? The social safety net? Working Climate satellites providing unwelcome news and scientific measurements? NASA generally? Scientific progress and education generally? Human Rights? International norms and conventions? The USoA’s international reputation & credibility (what little was left of that after his first term..) The world as we know it generally?
I can think of plenty of other things Trump is already demolishing fast and furiously.
As for the specifics here – the pettiness of Trump and his desire and to eradicate any trace of the Obama’s and undo everything they tried to do and their desired legacy does make it seem plausible that removing that trace of Michelle Obama being in the White House could well be a motivating factor for Trump here. Along with probly other things too to be fair.
“As for the specifics here – the pettiness of Trump and his desire and to eradicate any trace of the Obama’s and undo everything they tried to do and their desired legacy does make it seem plausible that removing that trace of Michelle Obama being in the White House could well be a motivating factor for Trump here.”
Seems to me that what’s plausible is that you’re assigning motive by projecting your own assumptions.
Note who the above mentioned tweet came from, Gavin Newsom. The only Democrat with the energy and determination to fight this shit, even if some of his current policies are more than problematic. Mamdani and AOC will not save the US.
John Watts@40 Given Trump’s obsession with the ’70s it’s odd it wasn’t done in a ’70s style. Some sort of loud print wallpaper and orangey brown or bright green carpet on the floor. Carpeted bathrooms, who came up with that dumb idea?
roschach @51: Note who the above mentioned tweet came from, Gavin Newsom. The only Democrat with the energy and determination to fight this shit, even if some of his current policies are more than problematic. Mamdani and AOC will not save the US.
Is that a joke? I’ll clap as loud as anyone for some of Newsom’s smartass tweets, but tweets are not going to “save the US”.
The only thing that can save anything at this point is substance. Real fixes to the real problems — wealth inequality, healthcare, housing, transportation, among others — that are destroying the country and its social fabric. But Newsom doesn’t have any more substance than Harris or Biden or Clinton did. Even if he were to get elected, it’s just falling into the 2020 trap again: “Oh, whew, glad that temporary unpleasantness is over. We elected a neoliberal Democrat who will keep things exactly the way they are and we don’t have to worry anymore.”
Wrong. “Exactly the way things are” is an express highway to right wing fascism. Even if Trump finally goes away, the best another neoliberal empty suit can do is delay the inevitable for a term or two. The exact same socioeconomic forces will still be there. Things need to actually change to alter that trajectory.
I don’t say that “Mamdani and AOC” can save anyone either – they’re only two people. And we are in a deep, deep hole. But they do show that people on the ground actually want change, and will probably come out to vote for it, despite the squeaky and well-funded outraged opposition of the powerful. Their policies are what we need, if not their characters.
Most furniture stores are actually predatory credit stores with a repossessable furniture collateral adjunct. Sales gets a cut of both parts of this equation. The finance cut is bigger. Leather or leather substitute is easier to re-sell than cloth but in no way is there quality well-made furniture being sold at any price. The buyer doesn’t get a cut, unless they need to “establish credit”.
What is happening here is no-bid contracts. It seems the same on the surface in which the money is not made on the actual cost of materials and labor for the installation actual redecoration. Everything is grossly inflated, and Trump ‘the buyer’ gets a cut.
Right. They’re horrified by a toilet. And the new toilet doesn’t really look all that different from the one that horrified them so.