Trump says he rejected Secret Service plan to tear down Oval Office

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White House Headlines October 1

White House Headlines October 1

President Trump said he told the Secret Service that he wouldn’t allow for the Oval Office to be demolished.

Trump was asked what he would miss the most about the White House when he leaves office at the end of his second term, and the president spoke about the historic West Wing office.

“This beautiful room that nobody should be allowed to rip down,” he said. “The Oval Office.”

Trump said he had seen Secret Service agents looking around the room.

“And I say, ‘What are you guys looking at?’ ‘Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we’ll build a new one, sir,'” he told Time magazine in an interview........

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