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In reply to the discussion: Trump hangs a copy of Declaration of Independence in Oval Office [View all]ReRe
(11,699 posts)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:
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Trump hangs a copy of Declaration of Independence in Oval Office [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2025
OP
What the national archive is saying, "no it's not the original please don't tell Donald"
Walleye
Mar 2025
#2
Are the curtains meant to protect it from sunlight or just a means to get more GOLD in the room?
underpants
Mar 2025
#4
Perhaps it's a "now you see it, now you don't " prop for the toddler's amusement.
Harker
Mar 2025
#6
The document should hang in a darkened climate controlled room with artificial light
JohnnyRingo
Mar 2025
#24
Like a carnival barker Trump will dramatically pull back the curtains to show it off to all his Oval Office visitors,
sop
Mar 2025
#14
So King George III hangs a copy of declaration of independence in his throne room?
travelingthrulife
Mar 2025
#19
Too bad he doesn't understand a word of it. And the curtains look ridiculous. I have two
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2025
#21
Oh yippie he has turned the white house into a fucking golf course setting..............
turbinetree
Mar 2025
#30