Trump May Work Outside The Oval Office For A Year Because President Obama Is Reportedly Refusing To Renovate

President-elect Trump may have to work outside the Oval Office for up to a year because President Obama is allegedly refusing to renovate, the New York Post is reporting.

According to the publication, the 55-year-old sitting president has decided to leave it all to Donald Trump when he assumes office. Experts are saying considering the security upgrades among other things required for the esteemed office of arguably the most powerful man on earth, renovations could take up to a year to complete.

Former George W. Bush consultant, Karl Rove in an interview with Fox News, Wednesday confirmed that for his first year as president, Mr. Trump would not sit in the Oval Office. He added there was the likelihood that Trump would spend a quarter of his term operating from the Eisenhower Office Building across the street from the citadel of power.

“My understanding is Trump will spend most of his first year using Richard Nixon’s old office in the Old Executive Office Building across executive drive and up the Navy steps.”

As a matter of controversial history, it is where President Richard Nixon also recorded most of his 3,700 hours of meetings and phone calls with executive offices. The infamous tapes would largely lead him to being the only president to resign from office.

Rigged renovation: President-elect Trump might not get to work out of the Oval Office for a year https://t.co/IeSPflocc6 via @MailOnline

— Geoff Earle (@GeoffEarle) November 16, 2016

Rove queried why the 44th president of the United States was leaving it to all to the Trump administration to do when he could easily have instructed the Secret Service to handle the most difficult part of the renovations.

“President Obama could have told the Secret Service, ‘I know you want to modernize the Oval Office with security enhancements, literally strip it down to the bare walls and build it back up so we’ve got bullet proof glass and so forth and so on’…but instead, he said, ‘Why don’t you do that with whoever comes next.”’

However, some people are saying that too much should not be read into President Obama refusing to renovate the Oval Office for President-elect Trump. According to sources, it is not a big deal, considering President Obama redecorated the room in 2010 when he took over from Republican President, George W. Bush.

President Obama reupholstered the furniture and changed the paint as well as the wallpaper. In place of the sunburst rug that former President George W. Bush loved and said exuded a spirit of optimism was a wheat and cream colored carpet, with a presidential seal emblazoned in the center. The carpet was ringed with five quotations around the edges. They were all selected by America’s first African-American president. Four of the quotations were from previous presidents and the fifth one from the revered, Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The 44th president of America kept portraits of Washington and Lincoln as well as the momentous grandfather clock. He also kept the historic desk known as the Resolute, a desk every commander-in-chief since Rutherford B. Hayes has used, with the exceptions of Ford, Nixon, and Johnson.

According to the Inquisitr, President-elect Donald Trump is not exactly keen to live in the White House. The 70-year-old politician has spent 30 years living in the high-flying Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York and does not want his living conditions to change.

American allies trying to reach Donald Trump were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower https://t.co/RmQtY0M12A

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 16, 2016

During his campaigns, Trump also said that he could stay at his new high-priced hotel near the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C. The President-elect is presently holding transition meetings from the 58-story Trump Tower. The blue collar billionaire’s preparation for the White House has been bedeviled with problems including infighting in his transition team, the appointment of Steve Bannon as chief strategist and the fall-out of Bridgegate.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump showed he still had no love for the media, ditching his press pool and grabbing a family steak at a restaurant.

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