White House Decorator Responds To President Donald Trump

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, does not give up and among the controversies unleashed by his immigration measures, his military policy, his tense relationship with the FBI and Obama, now a dispute with the decorator of the White House is added.

This new presidential controversy was triggered because the president allegedly told a group of members at his New Jersey golf club that the reason he visits them so often was because "that White House is a real dump," according to Golf..com.

Although Trump later sent a tweet denying that information, Michael S. Smith, who was the decorator of the White House during the term of Barack Obama, could not remain silent and told People: “I had the great privilege of working in the White House for eight years, and everyone I know who visited it was filled with a feeling of admiration and patriotism from the moment they entered that historic structure.”

The designer, who has decorated homes for countless high-profile clients and has been honored as an AD100 member of Architectural Digest, designed the Obama family's private rooms, including their dining and living rooms, Treatment Room, Living Room Oval Yellow, as well as bedrooms for Malia, Sasha, and Michelle's mother , Marian.

"I was always deeply aware of the extraordinary events that had occurred on those walls over the years and events that defined our country," added Smith. "And how each decision of any former president and the actions of his family, became an essential part of the living history of our nation."

Whether Trump has referred to the decoration of the White House as a landfill or not, his former decorator described his work as a true commitment to history, as he said in an interview with AD, before decorating it he read all the letters and notes from Abigail Adams, Jacqueline Kennedy and "anyone who has contributed to the history of this building."

Of course, the residence of the first family is much more than a home. Smith adds: “The White House itself is part of the office, part of the museum, part of the residence and is gloriously emblematic of the best of American style. It is well cared for by an extraordinary team of employees, and its rooms are filled with the treasures of past presidents.”