Good snark is often hard to come by:
Trumpās $3m White House redesign? Itās as drab as a downmarket hotel
Trumpās obsequious aides have been dutifully gushing with praise online. āThe White Houseās newly renovated Roosevelt Room looks incredible,ā cooed Cliff Sims, special assistant to the president. He canāt get out much. The accompany photos he tweeted look straight out of a corporate conference centre brochure. Recessed lights glare down from a suspended ceiling, while the walls are drenched in that ubiquitous shade of greigeā¦
Lots of new eagles, everywhere. Perching on a pair of pedestals, their talons clinging to gilded rocks, an alarming duo of metre-high eagles greet visitors to the Roosevelt Room, beaks agape, wings raised up high, ready to attack. A gilded eagle peers down from the ceiling of the Oval Office too, clutching a chandelier in its talons, as if ready to hurl it down on any uncooperative heads of state.