jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Oval Office had always been deliberately understated—a reminder that the United States was a republic, not a monarchy, and the President’s office was not a palace. Trump had gone along with that tradition in his first term. In his second term, he would unleash his inner Louis XIV.”
— Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
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