Trump’s big, beautiful, Mar-a-Lago-inspired renovation plans for the White House: ‘Keeps my real estate juices flowing’
By Miranda Devine
Published April 13, 2025, 10:38 p.m. ET
When he’s not busy ending wars, deporting illegal aliens, overhauling the federal bureaucracy and drastically reordering world trade, the president has big plans for matters closer to home.
Donald Trump the property developer is busting out of the political straitjacket to bling the Oval Office and reimagine the White House.
From planning a “beautiful, magnificent” new ballroom to paving over the Rose Garden to create a convivial, Mar-a-Lago-style terrace, the 45th and 47th president is determined to make his mark on the White House this time.
“It keeps my real estate juices flowing,” he told a reporter recently.
Last week, after announcing a pause on reciprocal tariffs, Trump took personal interest in rearranging presidential portraits in the grand White House entrance hall.
Because he is serving non-consecutive presidential terms, he gets to display two official portraits in the White House and has been mulling four or five traditional versions in muted tones created by official artists, including one memorable painting in which he looks fierce as he leans on the edge of the Resolute Desk.
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