Badlands Media Special Coverage: 11/5/26 - Oval Office Monument, Tariff Fight & Ukraine Deal
President Trump speaks from the Oval Office on November 5 as he signs a proclamation making the Oval Office a national monument and federal landmark, with the Cabinet Room covered the same way, and says both spaces will go to Congress for ratification so no one can tear them down or reshape them. He walks through the office's history from William Howard Taft in 1909 to FDR's 1934 changes, rates his signature a 10, and points Laura Ingraham and the press toward the upgraded Cabinet Room with its new chandeliers. In the gaggle that follows he defends tariffs as the reason thousands of factories…
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