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struggle4progress

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Fri Jun 23, 2017, 10:18 PM Jun 2017

Has spent way more on White House furnishings than Obama

By Bob Fredericks
June 23, 2017 | 4:31pm | Updated

... Federal documents show that Trump spent $133,053 on office furnishings during the period, compared to $51,204.25 by Obama.

Trump’s office purchased a custom conference table from the high-end Kittinger Company that went for about $13,000.

Kittinger, according to its website, has “built custom furnishings for many of the finest offices in this country and throughout the world, including many government offices at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue for more than two centuries.”

But Trump wasn’t the first president to order a Kittinger: President Richard Nixon also had one of the pricey tables, though he paid for it himself ...

http://nypost.com/2017/06/23/trump-has-spent-way-more-on-furniture-than-obama-analysis-shows/

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Has spent way more on White House furnishings than Obama (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2017 OP
Cannot believe that I am saying this. Old Terp Jun 2017 #1

Old Terp

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1. Cannot believe that I am saying this.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 10:40 PM
Jun 2017

But Trump has even less class than Nixon. I would bet that Nixon had better taste too. It's come to this, Nixon is not the dregs of the White House anymore. Trump is the classless wonder. I guess manners were never taught in his home. Sad. And Nixon paid for his table. Mr. Rich Guy sticks the U.S. taxpayers with the bill. Cheapskate!

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