Sure, of course Abraham Lincoln used a bathroom that looked like one in Trump Plaza
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The bathroom adjacent to the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom is seen after being remodeled by President Donald Trump.
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As millions of families across the US are about to lose their access to food aid over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Friday decided to show off photos of a White House bathroom that he boasted had been refurbished in “highly polished, statuary marble.”
Trump posted photos of the bathroom on his Truth Social
platform, and he explained that he decided to remodel it because he was
dissatisfied with the “art deco green tile style” that had been implemented
during a previous renovation, which he described as “totally inappropriate for
the Lincoln Era.”
“I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble,”
Trump continued. “This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln
and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
Trump’s critics were quick to pan the remodeled bathroom, especially since it came at a time when Americans are suffering from numerous policies the president and the Republican Party are enacting, including tariffs that are raising the cost of food and clothing; expiring subsidies for Americans who buy health insurance through Affordable Care Act exchanges; and cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) programs in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“Sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump’s new marble shitter is,” remarked independent journalist Aaron Rupar on Bluesky.
Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who has become a
critic of Trump, ripped the president for displaying such tone deafness in the
middle of a federal government shutdown.
“Government still shutdown, Americans not getting paid, food
assistance for low-income families and children about to be
cut off, and this is what he cares about,” he wrote on
X. “He’s a psychopath, humanly incapable of caring about anyone or anything but
himself.”
Don Moynihan, a political scientist at the University
of Michigan,
expressed extreme skepticism that the White House bathroom during Abraham
Lincoln’s tenure was decked out in marble and gold.
“Fact check based on no research but with a high degree of
confidence: This is not the marble that was originally in the Lincoln Bedroom,”
he wrote. “It is more likely to the be retrieved from a Trump
casino before it was demolished.”
Earlier this month, Trump sparked outrage when he demolished the entire East Wing of the
White House to make way for a massive White House ballroom financed by
donations from some of America’s wealthiest corporations—including several with
government contracts and interests in deregulation—such as Apple,
Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google,
Amazon, and Palantir.
