At New York
When the teams of the new President George W. Bush entered the White House in January 2001, unpleasant surprises awaited them: obscene little words stuck on the doors, the letter "W" systematically torn from the keyboards, the presidential seal retracted, overflowing drawers. of petroleum jelly, phones stuck to super-glue.
A total of 108 rooms in the executive residence have allegedly suffered various types of depredation.
This joke, signed by some members of the Clinton Administration, will take a sour turn: the administrative investigation leads to a damning 220-page report to Congress, an expensive procedure, not to mention the replacement of vandalized furniture estimated at $ 15,000.
Etched in memories, the episode seems to have reached the ears of Donald Trump and his collaborators: on November 19, 2019, White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham accuses Barack Obama's staff of having surrendered to the same jokes in January 2017. The new
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