{"id":38380,"date":"2017-08-03T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38380"},"modified":"2017-08-03T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:27:50","slug":"the-white-house-has-reportedly-lost-its-luster-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/the-white-house-has-reportedly-lost-its-luster-for-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"The White House Has Reportedly Lost Its Luster for Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House Has Reportedly Lost Its Luster for Donald Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

For awhile, the White House had that new administration glow for Donald Trump. He complimented its telecom systems in a seminal report by The New York Times published in the days after the inauguration. \u201cThese are the most beautiful phones I\u2019ve ever used in my life,\u201d he said. (Worth noting that the new president was possibly less enthralled with their aesthetic beauty and more enamored with the way they weren\u2019t bugged.) His aides told Maggie Haberman that he \u201cmarveled\u201d at the \u201csplendor\u201d upon arrival. \u201cThey have a lot of board rooms,\u201d Trump astutely observed. He called the place \u201celegant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, what a difference six months or so makes. Trump has made something of a habit of spending weekends away from the presidential residence, preferring his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, in the winter months and his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey this summer. (Though it\u2019s difficult to know for sure\u2014the White House and the clubs themselves won\u2019t confirm the number of presidential visits\u2014but NBC News has estimated that he\u2019s spent 14 days at Bedminster in close to 200 days in office.) And now we may have some insight as to why. According to a new report in Golf magazine by Alan Shipnuck on the president\u2019s, well, golfing habits, he chattily explained to some members of Bedminster that he visits the property so frequently because, \u201c\u2018That White House is a real dump.\u2019\u201d A White House spokesperson refuted the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only one to toss off remarks like that. Presidents have likened it to prison before, including Barack Obama and Harry Truman. The executive mansion endured a complete gut renovation under Truman, too. That was finished in the 1950s, and it hasn\u2019t undergone anything as massive since, though general upkeep and preferential touches are added with each new administration. Trump\u2019s fabled gold drapes, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is that the issue? Does the palace need more gold? Does it need more gilding and marble and bigger chandeliers? Maybe! Maybe he doesn\u2019t want a Southern White House to escape to; he wants a Northern Mar-a-lago to live in. It\u2019s difficult to say, but it\u2019s no secret that the president\u2019s compliments tend to have little to do with the actual merits of whatever he\u2019s talking about and everything to do with how well the thing is working for him, like the phones mentioned above or Jeff Sessions. \u201c\u2018Is this not the most beautiful asphalt you’ve ever seen in your life?\u2019 he\u2019ll say of an ordinary cart path,\u201d according to Shipnuck. Those are his cart paths on his property. Of course he calls them beautiful. The White House just fundamentally cannot carry his gilded name as he is so accustomed to\u2014at least not under our admittedly tenuous political norms. So it\u2019s a \u201cdump.\u201d (Allegedly.) Better to spend his time at a place that literally bears his name, among people who paid to be there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-=\u00a0https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2017\/08\/donald-trump-white-house-dump<\/span><\/p>\n

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