President Trump has lined the West Wing with the front pages of The Post that chronicle his stunning political comeback.
The snapshots of history, in the form of commemorative plaques featuring The Post’s distinctive covers, are prominently displayed in Trump’s Oval Office dining room.
Photographs of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Feb. 21 swearing-in ceremony released by the White House earlier this week show several of The Post front pages sitting on the mantle above the fireplace in the Oval Office dining room, which is one of a suite of rooms accessed via a private internal corridor from the Oval Office.
More front-page plaques were also visible on a sideboard in the room, which is often used for working lunches the president has with administration officials and foreign leaders.
The Post’s coverage of Trump’s “MAGA Square Garden” rally last October and his raucous September 2024 Long Island event, where he pledged to “save New York” are among the front pages the president chose to highlight.
Trump also put up the “‘I shouldn’t be here” cover – his first interview after the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt with The Post’s Michael Goodwin – and the Sept. 16, 2024 front page after the attempt on his life, in Palm Beach, Fla.
The Post’s Aug. 24, 2024 front page – “A Kennedy Endorses a Republican” – after Trump received the pivotal endorsement of one-time-opponent-turned-Cabinet-secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is also on display.
Interestingly, The Post’s “The End” cover, from the day after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris, sits in the room as well.
Trump, a New York-native, is known to have a soft spot for the paper.
Earlier this month, The Post spotted one of its front pages – the one showing Trump’s Georgia mug shot – hanging on a wall just outside the Oval Office.
The framed newspaper is in the office of Trump’s secretaries — between the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room — in a space that often serves as an entrance for guests.
The surprising decorating choice was revealed during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit when the leaders were seated in front of the Oval Office’s fireplace — with the door behind Trump left open.
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