A Tour Inside Trump's Oval Office—Version 2.0
The Wall Street Journal|January 21, 2025
President Trump's redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in America.
ANNIE LINSKEY
A Tour Inside Trump's Oval Office—Version 2.0

President Trump's redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in America.

On Monday, around 3:30 p.m., shortly after Trump was sworn into office, Trump's aides gave The Wall Street Journal and a photographer an exclusive peek into the office.

A tray of pens was ready on the Resolute Desk for Trump to sign executive orders. A valet button that Trump famously used to order Diet Cokes was set up and ready to go.

Aside from small modifications, Trump's Oval Office looks largely the same as it did when he departed Washington four years ago, a visual signal of continuity from his first term.

Like four years ago, a portrait of George Washington now hangs over the fireplace, which is flanked by portraits of Alexander Hamilton, the country's first Treasury Secretary, and Thomas Jefferson, the country's third president.

A bust of Winston Churchill rests on a table near the fireplace, sitting in the same spot Trump originally had it before Biden moved it out of the Oval Office when he took office in 2021. A bust of Martin Luther King Jr., whose likeness both Biden and Trump displayed in the Oval Office, remains.

This story is from the January 21, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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