{"id":1056285,"date":"2025-09-29T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056285"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:17:31","slug":"trump-pimps-out-white-house-with-24-karat-gold-while-americans-cant-pay-their-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-pimps-out-white-house-with-24-karat-gold-while-americans-cant-pay-their-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pimps Out White House With 24-Karat Gold While Americans Can\u2019t Pay Their Bills\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, Donald Trump posted a video showing off his gold-plated White House decorations. Once again, he\u2019s doing everything except helping Americans who are being crushed by his tanking economy and reckless tariffs. Trump is more focused on his gilded walls than on fixing the mess he created. It\u2019s no wonder Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-polling-75-of-americans-including-majority-of-republicans-believe-country-is-on-the-wrong-track-thanks-to-donald-trump\/\">quickly souring<\/a> on him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump has once again shown Americans where his priorities really lie: with himself. Americans continue to struggle with high inflation, shrinking job opportunities, and skyrocketing costs for everything from groceries to utility bills to housing because of Trump\u2019s chaotic trade policies. But what is Trump doing? Bragging about his gilded White House remodel \u2014 which conveniently seems to be one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115011325631302905\">only things<\/a> that isn\u2019t subject to his tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115283825662825835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"403\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.02.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1056286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.02.40-PM.png 403w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-29-at-12.02.40-PM.png?resize=300,286 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Donald Trump posted a video showing off his gold-plated White House decorations. Once again, he\u2019s doing everything except helping Americans who are being crushed by his tanking economy and reckless tariffs. Trump is more focused on his gilded walls than on fixing the mess he created. It\u2019s no wonder Americans are quickly souring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Pimps Out White House With 24-Karat Gold While Americans Can\u2019t Pay Their Bills\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-pimps-out-white-house-with-24-karat-gold-while-americans-cant-pay-their-bills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-29T16:17:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-29T16:17:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tristin Byrd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tristin Byrd\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-pimps-out-white-house-with-24-karat-gold-while-americans-cant-pay-their-bills\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-pimps-out-white-house-with-24-karat-gold-while-americans-cant-pay-their-bills\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Pimps Out White House With 24-Karat Gold While Americans Can\u2019t Pay Their Bills\u00a0 - 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