Amid Trump's White House makeover, which thus far has included a paving over of the famous Rose Garden and bedecking some of its historic rooms in gold, White blasted the changes as "vulgar" and "gaudy.

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.