Can we talk about the Oval Office?

If you close your eyes, I bet you can picture it.

The fireplace, the portraits.

And ever since Donald Trump has been back in office, the gold.

Yeah. office, the gold. Before we really get into it, it's worth talking about what this room has looked like historically.

If you Google around, you'll see.

Joe Biden kept a moonrock in there. Also a bust of Martin Luther King

Jr., one of Caesar Chavez, too. And all that stuff has been moved. Even the moon rock.

How did you notice the changes? Because of how shiny they were?

Abdullah Fyad has been following all this over at Vox.

He's redecorating the Oval Office in a way that looks a lot like Trump's properties.

It seems like every time there's a new meeting, there's more gold in the background.

To be straight, every president gives the White House a little makeover.

But what Trump has done seems different.

It's not just the way every surface has been gilded, though that is notable.

The Washington Post reported that the president ditched a Swedish ivy plant that had been sitting in the Oval Office for decades. An official portrait of Barack Obama

got stuck in a stairwell. And then there's the merch that's available. Some visitors to the Oval

Office have exited through a gift shop of a sort, where you can get,

you guessed it, a red maga hat.

All this together, Abdullah says, well, it's anathema to how the White House usually runs.

As grand a building as it is, it's also relatively understated.

You know, a lot of times when tourists go to Washington, D.C., be they Americans or

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