Trump famously watched cable news coverage of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot from the presidential dining room. Recent past presidents have watched television in the adjacent dining room or study instead of the Oval Office itself. In one image it is tuned to the DirectTV “News Mix,” which shows different cable news feeds. Recent official White House photos inside the Oval Office show some changes the Chavez bust has been moved in front of a window, and in its place appears to be a small television set inside a gold frame. A bust of Cesar Chavez was placed behind Biden’s desk. Biden’s brother Jimmy and the historian Jon Meacham helped make the selections.īiden placed a number of busts around the room, including of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr.
During a hasty Inauguration Day swap-out with Trump, officials changed the rug and hung new portraits, but the sofas and curtains were the same. So far, Biden hasn’t executed as extensive an overhaul of the Oval Office. The room had to be completely emptied to complete the project. He also swapped out Obama-era wallpaper - installed in August 2010 - with a pattern he selected himself that included scrolls and floral medallions. He was not wrong on that point - during his first summer as president, White House maintenance staff used his August absence to complete a $3.5 million overhaul of the West Wing, including replacing an air conditioning system that sometimes broke down. When President Donald Trump decamped for his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he insisted it was not, in fact, a vacation, but a required getaway while the West Wing was renovated. Bush preferred brush-clearing and mountain biking on his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama enjoyed rural refinement on Martha’s Vineyard, while President George W. He was joining a long list of presidents who have left behind Washington’s steamy Augusts for more relaxed venues. “Go get your bathing suits,” he called out as he rolled past. Biden is spending this week between his homes in Delaware, and spent last week on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where reporters caught sight of him riding his bike down the sand. The building is maintained to a museum-level standard, but upkeep is required nearly constantly, and systems sometimes break down.ĭoing that work while the President is out of town is usually preferable for the teams of painters, carpenters, electricians and landscapers who descend on the building in August to make the repairs.
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