President Trump showed off his renovations of the White House’s Lincoln Bathroom on Friday, calling out the room’s previous art deco style as “inappropriate.”
“I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble,” he continued. “This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
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He followed the original post with several others sharing photos of the newly updated space, showing off the “Highly polished, Statuary marble!”
Trump spoke about renovating the room earlier this month at the White House.
“The bathroom was done by the Truman family a long time ago and done in green tile, and it’s done as — in a style that was not exactly Abe Lincoln,” the president said at the time. “It’s a style that is not good … it is actually art deco and art deco doesn’t go with 1850 and civil wars.”
“So, I ripped it apart, and we built a bathroom that’s absolutely gorgeous and totally keeping in that time because the Lincoln bedroom is so incredible for those of you who have seen it,” he added.
The renovation update comes as Trump has made significant structural changes to the White House to make way for his long-planned ballroom — a $300 million project. Earlier this month, Trump oversaw the demolition of the White House East Wing. The move immediately led to backlash from critics who argued the administration was not being transparent enough about the renovation project.
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The White House, on the other hand, has maintained it has been transparent in its updates on the project and have released the full list of private donors that will fund the ballroom’s construction.
According to a Yahoo/YouGov poll released earlier this week, 61 percent of Americans said they did not support Trump’s plan to add a ballroom, while 25 percent backed the move.
