Though
Trump denies telling his golf buddies that the White House is “a real
dump,” it’d apparently be more honest of him to stand by his alleged
statement that the historic building is disgusting. According to the
White House’s work orders obtained by NBC,
the Trump administration has been dealing with broken toilet seats,
hard-to-use trashcans, and bug and mice infestations this past year.
Given
to the U.S. General Services Administration, many of the hundreds of
requests involve typical housekeeping duties, such as moving furniture
and hanging paintings. Trump also appeared to be unimpressed with the
Oval Office’s toilet seat, as he requested a new one — though he asked
for it to be replaced “after hours, please.” When you gotta go, you
gotta go, sometimes on a seat that your behind deems subpar!
And
then, there’s the vermin. This past year, there were at least four
reported cockroach infestations, a complaint about ants, and requests
for mice traps. In one instance, not a single person on staff was able
to pick up a dead mouse.
The
recent documents show a White House staff that is incapable of
accomplishing extremely basic tasks, like putting trash inside the trash
can, not outside.
However,
it would be remiss not to recognize that the White House has been
waging a war on bugs for at least a decade. According to a New York Times article from 2009,
Obama’s White House suffered from so serious a fly infestation that
staff members were reportedly issued fly swatters to be prepared to kill
intruders at any moment. It’s unclear if these were the same
fly swatters that George W. Bush’s staff kept in their drawers, as
Bush’s former spokesman Dana Perino alleged that they “always had a lot
of fly swatters at the ready, too.”
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