The White House Christmas decorations are traditionally the domain of the First Lady, the president’s husband. At the beginning of this week, Jill Biden proudly announced that the private rooms are now completely Christmassy.
And after sending a large folder with photos to the media, and a real ‘tour book’, everyone can now also marvel at this extravaganza via Streetview of 41 Christmas trees, 2 kilometers of ribbon, 300 candles and 78,750 lights in the trees.
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And where Melania Trump, the previous First Lady, went completely over the top in his Trumps by turning the White House into a snow-white pine forest, Jill Biden has gone on the ‘all-American tour’. As a central theme, she chose to honor healthcare workers in the pandemic and American soldiers with ‘gifts from the heart’.
‘Peace and light’
According to the tour book, the shooting stars and doves that return everywhere symbolize “the peace and light that all our healthcare workers on the front lines brought us.” The golden stars in the trees represent the ‘soldiers who gave their lives for our country’.
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As you can expect, all rooms have been carefully styled down to the smallest details. Some Christmas trees are decorated with photos of the Biden family themselves, of former presidents and of friends. Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy are positioned exactly so that the Streetview camera can be zoomed in exactly.
It is impossible to see whether all former presidents have been given a place in the tree. If so, then Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump is probably stashed somewhere in the back.
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