'Nobody can touch it': Trump moves to bar future presidents from changing Oval Office
President Trump has signed an executive order designating the Oval Office as a national monument to prevent future presidents from making major structural changes. The order places the office under the management of the National Park Service.
Why it matters
This move attempts to institutionalize the current administration's aesthetic and historical legacy, limiting the executive authority of future presidents over the White House.
US President Donald Trump has moved to protect his revamped Oval Office from future alterations, signing an executive order declaring it a national monument and placing it under the management of the National Park Service.Trump, who has extensively remodelled the office since returning to the White House, said the move would prevent future presidents from dismantling or making major changes to the space."So we're making it a national monument, and it will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape," Trump said on Thursday.The order designates the Oval Office, along with some adjoining rooms, as a national monument and directs the National Park Service to protect its historic character and architectural integrity, BBC reported.However, it does not prevent the president from redecorating the office, changing its furnishings or making routine operational and security-related modifications,…
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