Trump Could Spend First Year Not Working From Oval Office, Says Karl Rove

Trump Could Spend First Year Not Working From Oval Office, Says Karl Rove
WASHINGTON, D.C. - NOVEMBER 10: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) shows President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump the Speaker's Balcony at the U.S. Capitol on November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day president-elect Trump met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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President Barack Obama won’t renovate the Oval Office inside the White House before his term ends, according to former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove.

Rove, in an interview with Fox News on Nov. 16, suggested that the Obama administration will pass the buck to Trump’s administration. It means that Trump might have to work elsewhere for a fourth of his term due to security upgrades that will be taking place in the Oval Office, he said.

“My understanding is that for the first year of his time in office, President Trump will not have the Oval Office,” Rove told Fox.

“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 bulletproof glass and so forth and so on, security arrangements in it, in my last year in office,’ but instead he said, ‘Why don’t you do that [with] whoever comes next.’”

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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