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'I Picked It All Myself': Trump Reveals Redecoration Of The Cabinet Room, Asks For Recommendations
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At a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump spoke about the Cabinet room.
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00:00
Maybe just in closing, you know, we spent a lot of time, effort, very little money on this room.
00:05
This is called the cabinet room. It's been here for a long time.
00:09
And it had some pictures that were not many of them and not very good ones.
00:15
And I actually spent time in the vaults.
00:17
The vaults are where we have a lot of great pictures and artwork.
00:21
And I picked it all myself. I'm very proud of it.
00:24
That's Andrew Jackson, great Andrew Jackson.
00:27
That's a gentleman named, and we call him President Polk.
00:32
He was sort of a real estate guy.
00:34
He was, people don't realize, he was one of them.
00:37
He was a one-termer, but he was a very good president.
00:42
But, and I'm not sure I should be doing this.
00:44
He actually gave us the state of California.
00:46
He was the one that I'm not sure.
00:51
Maybe he won't be there for long.
00:54
But if you notice, the frame is the exact same size,
00:57
almost as the other one is Andrew Jackson.
00:59
So that was a part of the reason, too, I have to be honest.
01:02
But Polk is, was actually a very good president,
01:04
who's got the same frame that I needed, okay?
01:08
And up here, you have the original George Washington
01:11
right behind the light.
01:13
And then you have Dwight Eisenhower,
01:15
who was a very underrated president.
01:17
He built the interstate system,
01:18
and he was the toughest president,
01:21
I guess, until we came along.
01:22
But I don't mind giving up that ground,
01:24
because I don't want to be too tough on it.
01:26
But we want to be humane.
01:27
But he was the toughest president on immigration.
01:31
He, he was very strong at the borders.
01:34
Very, very strong.
01:36
And sometimes you can be too strong.
01:38
He was strong at the borders.
01:40
And during a certain period of time,
01:42
they were so strong that almost every farmer
01:45
in California went bankrupt.
01:48
And we have to remember that.
01:49
We have to work together and we have to remember that.
01:52
But he was a very good president
01:54
and a very good general and a very good president.
01:57
And I thought he deserved a position somewhere on this floor.
02:02
And then you have, this is very exciting to me,
02:05
he was not a Republican, to put it mildly,
02:08
but he was, you know, he was a four-termer.
02:11
He was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
02:14
And have you noticed, there are a lot of ramps outside.
02:17
We have ramps, people say, it's an unusual place for a ramp.
02:20
It was because of him.
02:22
He was wheelchair-bound.
02:25
But he was an amazing man.
02:28
It's an amazing portrait.
02:30
And we used to have him in the room, a different portrait.
02:34
And it was a terrible portrait.
02:36
It was almost like it was done by a child.
02:39
And I used to say, you know,
02:40
I can't believe that he would have approved of that portrait of himself.
02:43
And I was in the vaults and looking at things.
02:47
I said, what's that?
02:48
And we have some great curators here.
02:50
We have six curators at the White House.
02:52
They have two for paintings.
02:54
They have them for furniture.
02:55
They have them for different things.
02:58
I guess cost is no object.
02:59
Okay, cost is, maybe I'd have one, but that's all right.
03:03
But we have six and they're very talented though.
03:05
And he said, that's a picture of FDR.
03:08
I said, really, let me see it.
03:09
They took off the wrappings, very well preserved.
03:11
And I said, that's the picture they've been looking for for years.
03:15
That was the picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
03:19
And I said, oh, wow.
03:21
And likewise, that fit, see a frame?
03:24
Frame-wise, it just doesn't work if you have, I want to be nice,
03:28
but it doesn't work if you have a big frame, a little frame of you.
03:31
But it's like perfection.
03:32
I'm a perfectionist.
03:34
The mirror was down in the vaults also.
03:36
I said, where is this from?
03:37
And it's a very old, very storied mirror, beautiful.
03:40
Before we put that up.
03:42
And then over there is Honest Abe Lincoln.
03:46
And that picture was in his bedroom.
03:50
And we thought that this would be a very important place
03:54
because this is where wars are ended.
03:57
I'm not going to say wars are declared.
03:59
I'm going to say wars are ended, okay?
04:00
We'll be positive.
04:01
And that's the picture of Abe Lincoln from his bedroom.
04:07
Sat in the bedroom for many, many years.
04:08
That was his favorite picture of himself.
04:11
And the Lincoln bedroom is very famous.
04:13
You remember when Bill Clinton had it and he rented it out to people.
04:19
We don't do that.
04:20
But it's an incredible, it's an incredible room.
04:23
And we took that picture from his bedroom.
04:25
That's Abe Lincoln.
04:27
And then over here you have John Adams and it's, this was, they were the first occupants
04:34
of the White House, 1800.
04:35
And John Quincy Adams, Mrs. Adams, they were the first occupants.
04:41
So we have them looking at each other and in between their stare is Abraham Lincoln trying
04:48
to make peace.
04:49
And that picture was in a room that I have that was not important like the cabinet.
04:56
I gave it up.
04:56
I said I have to give it up because that's one of the greatest pictures of the White House.
05:00
The White House is tremendous art.
05:02
And the Oval Office, when we're there, we'll go over that.
05:06
That's really been something.
05:08
Then we got the drapes and we got the whole thing.
05:10
We got new drapes.
05:11
We got new, it wasn't a big expense, very, very small.
05:15
And we took some of the China wear and silver wear and trophy wear, they call it, from the vaults.
05:22
And we had it cleaned up, hadn't been shined up in a hundred years.
05:26
Some of this has sat in the vaults for over a hundred years.
05:29
Amazing.
05:30
Over a hundred years.
05:31
Many of the pictures that were put up in the Oval Office, as an example, those two, as
05:36
an example.
05:37
So he was president.
05:38
They moved in in 1800 and he won the election, I believe, in November of 1800, John Quincy Adams.
05:46
And we thought that would be, he was considered to be a good president.
05:49
And he was the first occupant of the White House, so it sort of made sense.
05:53
And I love the frame of those pictures, look at those frames, you know, I'm a frame person.
05:58
Sometimes I like frames more than I like the pictures.
06:00
And we have the flags of the Marines and Space Force now has its own flag.
06:06
I'm very proud of Space Force.
06:08
But the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force, the whole thing.
06:12
And Coast Guard is right there.
06:15
You'll never forget the Coast Guard.
06:16
They do a great job.
06:17
So we have the flags throughout the office.
06:19
And it's really become quite a beautiful place.
06:23
I don't want to tell this, oh, Marco pointed that out.
06:27
I was going to leave the clock.
06:29
So as president, you have the power.
06:31
If I go into the State Department or Department of Commerce or Treasury,
06:35
if I see anything that I like, I'm allowed to take it.
06:40
Do you know this?
06:41
So I'm in Marco's.
06:42
I see this gorgeous clock, grandfather clock.
06:47
And there it is.
06:47
I said, Marco.
06:51
I didn't know about it.
06:53
I had to read him the rule and regulation.
06:55
I said, Marco, I love this clock.
06:57
Look at it.
06:58
It's beautiful.
07:00
He said, what clock?
07:01
I said, the clock that's in the other room
07:05
is incredible.
07:06
And nobody gets to see it there.
07:09
Marco, I tried to talk him into it first.
07:11
And it sort of worked.
07:12
And then I had to use a little more.
07:14
I said, I'd love to take that clock out
07:16
and put it in the cabinet room.
07:18
He said, no, are you serious?
07:20
I said, Marco, I have the right to do it, Marco.
07:23
And he said, all right, what the hell?
07:27
That's his contribution to the cabinet room.
07:30
But it's, by the way, it's an incredible clock.
07:31
And, you know, it's an important room.
07:33
So you may see it again.
07:35
Maybe we'll move it back someday.
07:37
Anyway, so that's pretty much it.
07:39
But it really is great.
07:42
Here we put out, you know, these lamps
07:46
have been very important, actually,
07:48
whether people love them or not.
07:50
But they're, if you see pictures like Pearl Harbor
07:54
and Tor, Tor, Tor, you see movies about the White House
07:58
where wars are being discussed,
08:00
oftentimes they'll show those lamps
08:02
or something like those lamps,
08:03
something that looks like them.
08:05
Probably not the reals,
08:06
because I don't think they were allowed to.
08:07
This is a very important room.
08:08
It's a sacred room.
08:10
And I don't think they made movies from here.
08:12
You never know what they do.
08:14
But they were missing medallions.
08:16
See the medallions on top?
08:18
They had a chain going into the ceiling.
08:20
And I said, you can't do that.
08:22
You have to have a medallion.
08:23
They said, what's a medallion?
08:24
I said, I'll show you.
08:25
And we got some beautiful medallions.
08:28
And you see them.
08:29
They were put up there.
08:30
It makes the lamps look better.
08:31
So we did these changes.
08:34
And, you know, when you think of it,
08:36
the cost was almost nothing.
08:38
We also painted the room in a nice color, beige color.
08:43
And it's been really something.
08:45
The only question is, will I gold-lif the corners?
08:49
You could maybe tell me my cabinet could take a bow.
08:52
You see the top-line moldings.
08:57
And the only question is, do you gold-lif it?
08:59
Because you can't paint it.
09:00
If you paint it, it won't look good,
09:02
because they've never found a paint that looks like gold.
09:05
You see that in the Oval Office.
09:07
They've tried for years and years.
09:09
Somebody could become very wealthy.
09:10
But they've never found a paint that looks like gold.
09:14
So painting it is easy, but it won't look right.
09:16
And the question is whether or not we should gold-lif it.
09:19
Does any?
09:19
Linda, do you have an opinion?
09:20
I'd gold-lif it.
09:21
You like it the way?
09:22
No, I'd gold-lif it.
09:24
You'd gold-lif it?
09:24
Yeah.
09:25
Who would gold-lif it?
09:26
Could I erase you?
09:27
How about...
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