{"id":2076,"date":"2026-06-23T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:48:35","slug":"origin-story-of-trumps-obsession-with-gold-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"Origin Story of Trump\u2019s Obsession With Gold Is Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s love for gold dates all the way back to his first marriage, a new book has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2074\">White House Cornered on Identity of Patient, 79, Given Special Weight Loss Drug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old president\u2019s gold craze was heavily influenced by his first wife, Ivana, White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report in their new book, <i>Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ivana, who died in 2022, was vice president of interior design at the Trump Organization for years. She played a key role in designing the firm\u2019s glitziest properties, including the Trump Tower and the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York and the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s first wife, Ivana, the vice president of interior design at his company, had had a penchant for gilding everything,\u201d Haberman and Swan wrote. \u201cIt was Ivana who was said to have first encouraged the gold obsession that soon became a hallmark of her husband\u2019s properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gaudy style that has become a signature of Trump actually started out as Ivana\u2019s own obsession with everything gold.<\/p>\n<p>Her motto became, \u201cIf something could be leafed in gold or upholstered in damask, it was,\u201d according to The Guardian. <\/p>\n<p>After she obtained her interior designer\u2019s license, Ivana would spend up to ten hours a day at the site for the Grand Hyatt Hotel, calling the shots \u201cover every pillow, every table and chair, and every brass column,\u201d she told Vanity Fair in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would send over one of my executives, or more often my wife, just to see how things were going,\u201d Trump said at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald calls me his twin as a woman,\u201d Ivana said, \u201cexcept in one sense: I\u2019m not a promoter\u2014I can\u2019t talk my way around things the way a promoter does. I\u2019m straightforward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2072\">Lonely 80-Year-Old Trump\u2019s Plea to Blonde Aide, 34, Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two were married for 15 years and share three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. Ivana died at age 73 after suffering injuries from a fall.<\/p>\n<p>But her taste for gold lives on at the White House, which has been gilded from top to bottom by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Though Trump managed to maintain the tradition of a muted Oval Office in his first term, he has gone all out in his second, even personally super-gluing gilded appliqu\u00e9s to the wall to match his gold molding, gold-framed paintings, and gold cherubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs he was known to prefer his own aesthetic handiwork to anyone else\u2019s, the sight of the president squeezing glue onto gilded appliqu\u00e9s and mounting them on the wall himself surprised no one in his inner circle,\u201d Haberman and Swan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Trump asked White House residence staff what they thought of the glittering display, most responses were muted, but his devout aide Natalie Harp would gush with delight,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of designing the White House had crossed Ivana\u2019s mind, too, as early as 1988, even as she said \u201cdefinitely not\u201d to the idea of becoming first lady.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much to do. We have invested in this town close to a billion dollars. We can\u2019t just put it in escrow and go to the White House. It would go down the drain in a second,\u201d she told Vanity Fair at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too young, too new. But in ten years, Donald is going to be just fifty-one years old\u2014a young man. What he\u2019s done in the last ten years some corporations don\u2019t do in a hundred years. Donald is interested in politics at a certain level. But I don\u2019t think he would run for mayor\u2014he could do that so easily. That wouldn\u2019t be a challenge for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2070\">Spiraling Trump Makes Key Admission About Green Slime Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s love for gold dates all the way back to his first marriage, a new book has revealed. Read more White House Cornered on Identity of Patient, 79, Given Special Weight Loss Drug The 80-year-old president\u2019s gold craze was heavily influenced by his first wife, Ivana, White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trumpland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Origin Story of Trump\u2019s Obsession With Gold Is Revealed - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2076\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Origin Story of Trump\u2019s Obsession With Gold Is Revealed - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump\u2019s love for gold dates all the way back to his first marriage, a new book has revealed. 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