Trump hangs a copy of Declaration of Independence in Oval Office

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:33 PM EDT, March 17, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, according to images he shared on social media. The Republican president’s official account on X showed two images Monday of a framed copy of the historical document hanging on the wall not far from the president’s desk.

In one image, Trump is moving aside heavy dark blue curtains hung around the document to look underneath. It was not immediately clear where the copy came from and when it was installed.

“The Nationals Archives delivered the Declaration of Independence to the White House at the President’s request. It is displayed in the Oval Office where it will be carefully protected and preserved,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

The original version of the Declaration of Independence is very faded and displayed in the Archives’ building. On the version hanging in the White House, according to the images posted, the words are clear and legible. The White House and National Archives did not respond to messages inquiring what version of the document was in the White House.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-declaration-of-independence-oval-office-5b9b9a07ac61ab303d77bcb4f6f252e5

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(notice that he still ignores the U.S. Constitution)

[Sailingdiver]

1. words are clear and legible

Now, if only the orange idiot could read and comprehend.

[Walleye]

2. What the national archive is saying, "no it's not the original please don't tell Donald"

[underpants]

4. Are the curtains meant to protect it from sunlight or just a means to get more GOLD in the room?

It’s all about image to him.

Trump at the Kennedy Center yesterday.

“You look at the columns outside, you look at they’re supposed to be covered by something, whether it’s marble, or whatever, granite. They were never covered. They were painted. But bring it into more modern times, a lot of money has been given to it, and the money has not been properly spent,” Trump told reporters.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/kennedy-center-donald-trump/index.html

[Harker]

6. Perhaps it's a "now you see it, now you don't " prop for the toddler's amusement.

Peek-a- boo freedom that he can shut off when he feels like it.

[MustLoveBeagles]

55. The country is just another toy he can break

[COL Mustard]

25. No more money from us for The Kennedy Center...

At least until Jan. 21, 2029. Maybe 2033, but God, I hope not.

[PatSeg]

28. Yes, Trump loves all the symbols of freedom and democracy

It's actual freedom and democracy that he has no use for. Of course in the end, it is all about him.

[LudwigPastorius]

40. "Are the curtains meant to protect it from sunlight..."

They keep the ketchup and rage spittle off of it.

[underpants]

46. 😆😆😆

[Irish_Dem]

3. Why did Trump do this?

I can't figure it out.

[Meadowoak]

7. it's for sale to the highest bidder.

[Harker]

8. He thinks it's his.

Possession, to him, confers ownership.

I view it as a threat.

[Irish_Dem]

9. He thinks everything belongs to him.

I don't know why he is fixating on the Declaration of Independence.

Maybe it is the most expensive artifact in the archives.

[Harker]

10. It's expensive, alright.

A lot of people he views as "suckers and losers" died because of it.

[jaxxon20]

31. trump aslo has copies of the Constitutiion.

I'm pretty sure he has a roll of the US Constitution in the Oval Office bathroom right next to the gold plated toilet that won't flush his documents.

[Harker]

33. He's probably aware of the rolls with his face on each sheet.

Good.

[Hugin]

12. It's a perverse version of Dorian Gray...

Don’t try to understand it, just fight it.

[Gore1FL]

15. It gives him a list of his 27 objectives. NT

[Irish_Dem]

16. Good point.

[NowsTheTime]

43. To make some people think he cares about it.....just like his bible stuff

[C_U_L8R]

5. When is the burning ceremony?

he's already shredded and crapped all over it.

[Paladin]

11. The "crapped all over" phase is already a done thing.

The question is: What are we going to do about it?

[ReRe]

13. Overkill

What's with the curtains? Does he close the curtains when he is entertaining dictators? Seriously, what's the significance of the curtains? And I don't know if anyone else has noticed the ornate gold items on the mantel behind the two chairs. What are those things? Trophies to himself? Don't care for the easel with the poster of the Gulf of America on it, at all. Has anyone ever noticed a floral arrangement in that room? A rubber plant or palm in a corner? Poor George and Abe : facepalm:

[JohnnyRingo]

24. The document should hang in a darkened climate controlled room with artificial light

Sunlight destroys it. The Mona Lisa is displayed in a special room for that reason and no camera flash is allowed.
I'm sure he doesn't like having to cover it and I don't trust that he will keep it properly preserved.

[sop]

14. Like a carnival barker Trump will dramatically pull back the curtains to show it off to all his Oval Office visitors,

telling them "it's the real Declaration of Independence...believe me." Trump used to tell everyone he had a $10 million original Renoir hanging on his wall; art historians said it was a fake, the real one was in a museum. Then there was Trump's Paris art theft caper during his first term:

"Trump swiped some art from the residence of the US ambassador to France during a 2018 visit, the same visit on which he cancelled a trip to visit fallen First World War Marines at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery outside Paris after allegedly calling the dead 'suckers' and 'losers.'"

Trump "took several of the pieces in the ambassador’s historic residence in Paris, where he was staying and which serves as the flagship for the State Department’s 'Art in Embassies' cultural programme, without notifying the ambassador."

Trump had "a portrait and bust of Benjamin Franklin and a set of silver figurines depicting Greek mythological characters loaded onto Air Force One to bring them back to the White House. A bureaucratic nightmare ensued for the State Department and White House staffers, who worried that the $750,000 cache of art might not be legally transferable." The ambassador "was told that she would receive the work back in six years—or 2024, when a second term of Trump’s presidency would theoretically end."

"The loot, however, was deemed legal to enter the White House since it was technically US property… and all of the works were replicas or copies anyway. It remains unclear whether Trump knew that none of the pieces were original when he decided to take them home with him, or whether he, in truth, was the real sucker."

Trump is an imbecile.

[pfitz59]

17. The Oval Office sure looks tacky

with all the 'gold' and stuff.

[LudwigPastorius]

41. Needs more flags.

[RazorbackExpat]

57. And logos of his corporate sponsors

[electric_blue68]

54. All the "gold", and stuff?...

Well... gold looking flag poles aren't unusual. There have been "gold" curtains in the WH before.

The only thing I see in those photos that's overdone is that ostentatious big, gold looking vase waaaay up in the upper left corner in a big niche above the window on the left in the photo.

I didn't even see it at first.

[2naSalit]

18. Are the...

Words all the same and in the same places as those on the original?

[travelingthrulife]

19. So King George III hangs a copy of declaration of independence in his throne room?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. ...

?list=RDZ8QfDmKBK_k

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Too bad he doesn't understand a word of it. And the curtains look ridiculous. I have two

copies printed on fake parchment I bought in D.C. 60 years ago on a class trip.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. You can imagine here in Philly

where every tourist shop has boxes of them (along with Constitutions and Gettysburg Addresses).

We actually displayed a real "broadside" version of it that got printed up "for the masses" a few weeks BEFORE the final signed one at the Museum of the American Revolution - https://whyy.org/articles/of-the-people-for-the-people-rare-broadside-of-the-declaration-of-independence-on-view/





(above from here - https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=5e8d3739f960446ea2b87ccd4e00df52)

[JohnnyRingo]

22. I hope some saavy administrator slipped him a copy from Staples.

The curtain is there to protect it from sunlight, but I don't expect Trump to go to any lengths to respect or preserve it.
They should check on it when he moves out as well.

[lonely bird]

26. That is assuming

He moves out.

[thinkingagain]

27. You can get a copy of it

At the national archives
Or even Amazon, Walmart, EBay etc

Don’t tell him that a woman’s name is on it (the printed version - she printed the document and put her name on the bottom)

“As British forces chased George Washington’s Continental Army out of New Jersey in December 1776, a fearful Continental Congress packed the Declaration of Independence into a wagon and slipped out of Philadelphia to Baltimore. Weeks later, they learned that the Revolution had turned their way: Washington had crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day and beaten the redcoats at Trenton and Princeton. Emboldened, the members of Congress ordered a second printing of the Declaration – and, for the first time, printed their names on it.

For the job, Congress turned to one of the most important journalists of America’s Revolutionary era. Also Baltimore’s postmaster, she was likely the United States government’s first female employee. At the bottom of the broadside, issued in January 1777, she too signed the Declaration: “Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mary-katharine-goddard-woman-whose-name-appears-declaration-independence-180970816/

[Baitball Blogger]

29. That is so not the original.

But it will serve its purpose. If they had hung the original one, Trump would have insisted that someone renovate it to make the letters more legible.

[tavernier]

36. Or go over it with a Sharpie

[turbinetree]

30. Oh yippie he has turned the white house into a fucking golf course setting..............

did musk print it up on his new communication server for the white house....................you know the one that can be hacked...........what a crass POS..............and to add further insult the fucker is a 34 count convicted fraudster hanging the document in the oval office.........oh look there is a tip jar on the desk..............

[SpankMe]

32. Marco Rubio is the current interim Archivist of the US right now

I fear that they're going to raid the archives for original documents to either destroy them in an attempt to re-write history, or for display in their offices and private homes. It's a train wreck.

[Bettie]

34. So, he's going to cross

things out as he destroys them?

[Jim__]

35. Good. "... it is their duty, to throw off such Government ..."

An excerpt:

... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. ...

[Efilroft Sul]

44. Beat me to it.

[Hellbound Hellhound]

48. Just here to rec. Thank you for posting. n/t

[republianmushroom]

37. To bad he doesn't understand the meaning of what it says.

[Harker]

39. Nor the handwriting.

That's not an "s", it's an "f", see?

[redstatebluegirl]

38. Wait till it ends up in the bathroom at Mara Lardo.

[Lars39]

42. I hope they framed a gift shop copy for him.

[Mz Pip]

45. I doubt he's read it.

He just likes to own stuff.

[maxsolomon]

47. Whoop de doo

I've got one on the wall in my basement bathroom.

[twodogsbarking]

49. Lincoln is hanging his head.

[twodogsbarking]

50. Trump hangs

a copy of Declaration of Independence in Oval Office.

[Hope22]

51. Well we can kiss that goodbye!

I hope they delivered a fake!

[LearnedHand]

52. Wonder if he knows it contains a list of grievances against a tyrant king?

That's pretty rich irony.

[synni]

53. I see he left an empty space on the table, for his copy of Mein Kampf

[choie]

56. This is a goddamn obscenity

and sacrilege.

[BobTheSubgenius]

58. I wonder if his collection of props is nearly complete.

As has been noted, no Constitution, but his huggin' flag is prominent.

[Vinca]

59. He's probably going to have an online auction for it.

[oasis]

60. "Thanks for the votes, suckers"

[bluestarone]

61. I'm betting that this traitor hasn't read a full sentence of this.