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President Trump is not stopping with the East Wing. On Friday, Mr. Trump said he had renovated the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom, posting two dozen photos on social media as he continues to remodel the White House in his own style. Mr. Trump said the new design of black and white marble with gold faucets and light fixtures was “very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln.” The White House did not say, in response to questions, who paid for the renovation, how much it cost or which contractor built it. The bathroom is only the latest remodel that Mr. Trump has undertaken at the White House, including the demolition of the East Wing. He has wide latitude as president to make changes, although critics have raised questions about the funding and lack of transparency. President Harry Truman redid the bathroom in 1945, and Mr. Trump has repeatedly criticized its style. Speaking to donors this month, Mr. Trump called the bathroom’s style “not good.” “Art Deco doesn’t go with, you know, 1850 and civil wars and all of the problems,” Mr. Trump said. “But what does is statuary marble. So I ripped it apart and we built the bathroom. It’s absolutely gorgeous and totally in keeping with that time.” Edward Lengel, who served as the chief historian of the White House Historical Association, said of the photos Mr. Trump posted: “It doesn’t look anything like 1860s interiors to me.” Michael F. Bishop, the former executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, said the bathroom was a sitting room in the president’s day and was unlikely to have included marble. “The present-day bathroom only takes up a portion of the Lincoln sitting room,” Mr. Bishop said. “They created a bathroom in the corner of this room. Trump’s change to the bathroom is not remotely a crime against historical preservation or anything like that. It was just a fairly dated-looking bathroom.” The historian Harold Holzer, the author of many books about Mr. Lincoln, said that when Mr. Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, there were two water closets on the second floor, including one adjacent to the rooms where he lived with the family. When Mary Todd Lincoln complained about the overall poor condition of the White House, Mr. Holzer said, he reminded her that it was better than any other house they had ever lived in. “Lincoln had an outhouse in Springfield, and heaven knows what when he lived in log cabins with his parents, so the plain bathroom was fine with him,” Mr. Holzer said. “He thought it was a majestic step up.” During his second term, Mr. Trump has wasted no time making changes to historical elements of the White House, arguing that parts of it are dated or too small. He tore down the entire East Wing, which had stood for more than a century, to make way for a planned 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom that he said was necessary for receiving dignitaries. His plans for the size of the ballroom continue to expand. Mr. Trump has said that he and a group of donors — not the taxpayers — are footing the bill for the ballroom. His staff has released a list of donors, but has not said how much each one has given. The money is being deposited in the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit, tax-exempt entity that is not subject to transparency laws. He also has added gold moldings and gold decorations throughout the Oval Office, and gold ornaments to the Cabinet Room. He cut down the White House’s historic magnolia tree, which President Andrew Jackson planted in 1829 in memory of his wife, Rachel. He removed a photo of Hillary Clinton and replaced it with an image of his own face colored with the American flag. He added marble floors and a chandelier to the Palm Room. He paved over the Rose Garden grass to add a patio. Along the West Wing colonnade, he added gold-framed photos of every American president except his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., whom he depicted as an autopen. Mr. Trump and White House staff members say the president is granted wide latitude to make renovations on the property. Mr. Trump has said he is not subject to zoning regulations or permitting requirements. Jennifer Schuessler and Zachary Small contributed reporting.

“Doesn’t that show the level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns?” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ vote and new national campaign to support migrants are the group’s first responses to the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Rep. Thomas Massie offered a warning to his fellow Republicans on Wednesday and urged them to vote for a bill that would compel the Department of Justice to release its Jeffrey Epstein files.

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One of the emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recently released by the House Oversight Committee reportedly shows correspondence with Steve Bannon — one of President Donald Trump's longtime advisors — about getting Trump's embattled second Supreme Court nominee through a major contro...

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EXCLUSIVE — Graham Platner’s Maine Senate campaign is paying his wife a biweekly salary, according to a recent filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had "spent hours at my house" with Donald Trump, according to emails released by Democrats on Wednesday.

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Imagine being so excited to gut Medicaid and run the debt up so high that there will be automatic cuts to Medicare. Then again, Speaker Johnson is a true alpha dog. This man has an app he shares with his son to track when they are watching pornography. Seriously. Yet, this man has spent so … Continue reading Alpha Dog of the Week, 11/1

As you may have read, tomorrow SNAP benefits, better known as food stamps, will not go out to a little over 40 million Americans. There are as best we can tell, 342,688,984 people in the United States. In the last fiscal year (2024) there were 41.7 million people on food stamps. About 12.3% of the … Continue reading Let’s Talk About the 40 Million People on Food Stamps

October 30, 2025 Though we are less than one week from the pivotal November 4 election day, there are half a dozen additional elections that will take place through the end of 2025. DemList has been bringing you trusted, extensively researched, insider, and uniquely insightful information -- all framed to inform and educate -- for almost […] The post DemDaily: 2025 Election Calendar Countdown! appeared first on DemList.

morrow could be the last baseball game of the 2025 season. God willing, the Toronto Blue Jays will be World Champions (I’m not convinced, because Yamamoto). And then the off-season will be here. Either way, you’ll wake up Monday as a Phillies fan thinking about what Kyle Schwarber is going to cost. I already laid … Continue reading The Long Off-Season Ahead, Part II- A Look Ahead

Lauren Mailen Bieber is the new Clerk of Judicial Records in Lackawanna County. She was appointed to fill the seat, first by being one of three names sent by the county Democratic Party to the Court of Common Pleas, then by being picked by said court. It was then determined that there would be a … Continue reading Lackawanna’s MAGA Dem