
Posted: 23rd November 2025
President Donald Trump’s brag that he transformed the Oval Office into a “24-karat gold” paradise, dripping in ornate decor, has seemingly been debunked by Internet sleuths who say the new furnishings are actually cheap plastic bought at Home Depot.
As shiny gold vermeil figurines were placed on the mantel, medallions on the fireplace, and gold eagles on the side tables, some eagle-eyed sleuths zeroed in on the Oval Office’s wall and fireplace trimmings.
According to the skeptics, several of those trimmings are actually plastic molds bought at Home Depot and painted in gold, Inside Edition reported.
The plastic embellishments, sold at the popular hardware and home improvement store as “polyurethane applique & onlay molding,” retail for $58.07, according to The Mirror.
The plastic embellishments, sold at the popular hardware and home improvement store as “polyurethane applique & onlay molding,” retail for $58.07, according to The Mirror.
Despite the Internet’s insistence that the Oval Office is now decked out in plastic, Trump has insisted the new decor is made of genuine gold, going as far as bringing in a “gold guy” to give the White House a glitzy gold makeover earlier this year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
While boasting his renovations earlier this year, Trump said the room “becomes more and more beautiful with love, with great love and 24-carat gold that always helps too.”
The Internet had a field day with the gold trim’s apparent origin, with social media users ridiculing the so-called gold furnishings.
“Imagine running the free world and still decorating like a broke mobster’s wife in Jersey. $58 Home Depot appliques in the Oval Office, spray-painted gold. Very on brand for Trump: cheap, fake and f*ing ugly,” one critic wrote on X.