Donald Trump’s ornate Lincoln bathroom remodel was mocked online Friday as “tone-deaf” or worse, with one social media critic joking that it’s the “perfect place” for the president to hide his classified documents.
“Tone deafness goes beyond parody,” journalist Aaron Rupar wrote in Bluesky Friday. Rupar also previously uploaded a screen recording of Trump’s own Truth Social posts showing the marble bathroom.
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Others criticized Trump, saying the bathroom renovation shows how uninterested he is in honoring American history.
“This really illustrates Trump’s lack of interest in both history and character, and his commitment to the enshitification of everything,” said a Bluesky user named Jason Karsh. “This looks like what people imagine a ‘rich’ hotel bathroom to be, while also echoing one of those things bathroom fitters do on TV in the afternoon.”
Trump celebrated his latest White House makeover on Friday via Truth Social, where he posted extensively about Lincoln’s bathroom facelift with photos and text. He said he rid the room of its “totally inappropriate” art deco style.
“I renovated the Lincoln bathroom in the White House,” Trump said.
“It was renovated in the 1940s in a green tile art deco style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln era,” Trump continued.
In her post she shared two images of the bathroom: one before the renovation and one after the update was completed.
“I made it in black and white polished statuary marble,” Trump added. “This was very appropriate for Abraham Lincoln’s time and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
Trump shared earlier this month that he planned to rework the look of the bathroom.
“The bathroom was done by the Truman family a long time ago and with green tiles, and it’s done like… in a style that wasn’t exactly Abe Lincoln,” Trump said at the time. “It’s a style that’s not good… It’s actually art deco and art deco doesn’t go with 1850 and the Civil War.”
He continued, “So, I gutted it and we built a bathroom that is absolutely beautiful and totally in keeping with that era because Lincoln’s bedroom is amazing for those of you who have seen it.”
The bathroom’s new look came amid a broader backlash Trump is facing after demolishing the East Wing of the White House, which he plans to convert into a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million ballroom. According to ABC News, only 28% of Americans support renewal.
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