Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has directed several major renovations at the White House. Trump redesigned the previously minimalist Oval Office, making some of the most significant changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold medallions, gold vermeil figurines, gold eagles, and gilded Rococo mirrors.

The Trump administration isn’t impressed with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) new social media strategy, responding with mockery of its own in one of the first-ever official White House press statements consisting of a meme.

Other lower level meetings planned for this week underscore the massive task ahead for European allies as they weigh plans for sending a peacekeeping force to Ukraine.

The former front man of The White Stripes described the Oval Office as a "vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler's dressing room."

Republican strategists say that if they throw in popular phrases such as “working families” and “tax cuts,” voters will embrace the deeply unpopular legislation.

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Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort on Monday and return to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.