特朗普总统表示，他已告知特勤局：他绝不允许拆除椭圆形办公室（Oval Office）。
President Trump said he told the Secret Service that he wouldn’t allow for the Oval Office to be demolished.
当被问及在第二个任期结束时离开白宫后，他会最怀念白宫的哪些部分时，特朗普谈到了位于白宫西翼的椭圆形办公室。
Trump was asked what he would miss the most about the White House when he leaves office at the end of his second term, and the president spoke about the historic West Wing office.
“这个美丽的房间，任何人都不应该有权利将其拆除，”他说。“椭圆形办公室……”他在接受《时代》杂志采访时回忆道：“我看到特勤局的工作人员在房间里四处查看，我就问他们：‘你们在看什么？’他们回答：‘总统先生，我们认为应该拆除椭圆形办公室，然后重建一个新的。’”“我说：‘你们绝对不能重建一个新的！这里是一个特别的地方。’”
“This beautiful room that nobody should be allowed to rip down,” he said. “The Oval Office.”Trump said he had seen Secret Service agents looking around the room. “And I say, ‘What are you guys looking at?’ ‘Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we’ll build a new one, sir,'” he told Time magazine in an interview published Thursday. “I said, ‘My a–, you can’t build a new one. This is a special place,'” he continued.
特朗普为椭圆形办公室添加了金色装饰元素（如金色贴花、金色框架以及金色装饰条）；他还用金色装饰了天花板上的总统印章，并在办公室门外设置了标有“椭圆形办公室”字样的标识。他在采访中提到，一直在考虑为椭圆形办公室申请“历史地标”地位。
Trump decked out the Oval Office with gold appliques and gold frames, along with gold trim to the crown molding. He decked out the presidential seal on the Oval Office’s ceiling with gold and put gold signage outside the door saying, “The Oval Office.”He said in the interview that he’s been considering landmark status for the Oval Office.
“我已经让我的幕僚长苏西（Susie Wiles）写一份声明有六个月了……我们到底会不会保护这个房间？会不会把它列为联邦历史地标呢？”特朗普说道。
“I’ve been asking Susie for six months to give me a statement. Will we save this room? Will we make it a federal landmark?”Trump said, referring to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
尽管他对椭圆形办公室情有独钟，但他也对白宫的其他部分进行了改造：去年10月，他拆除了白宫的东翼，为建造一个面积达9万平方英尺的宴会厅腾出空间；他还重新铺设了玫瑰园的地面，添加了桌椅，并对棕榈厅进行了翻新；此外，他在白宫西翼的走廊和柱廊上挂上了过去历任总统的肖像（这些肖像都装在金色框架中），并将走廊的地板更换为深色花岗岩。
While he feels strongly about the Oval Office, he has made other changes to the White House. Last October he demolished the East Wing to make space for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom. He also paved over the Rose Garden, adding tables and chairs, and redid the Palm Room.
他还对内阁会议室进行了改造，并在白宫的北草坪和南草坪上插上了旗帜；同时还在白宫内修建了一个直升机停机坪。
He added gold-framed photos of past presidents along the West Wing Walkway and Colonnade and replaced its flooring with dark granite.
在采访中，特朗普称白宫原本是一处“破败不堪的地方”，而他是通过自己的努力将其修复起来的。
The president also made changes to the Cabinet room and added flags to the North and South lawns, along with a helipad. In his interview he said the White House was a “dump” that he fixed up.
“白宫是一个非常特殊的象征，”他说。“它是美国的象征。它是我们伟大的象征。”
“The White House is a very special symbol,” he said. “It’s a symbol of America. It’s a symbol of our greatness.”
“我说，‘我得把它修好。’而我做这件事比任何人都强，”他补充道。“也许我做这件事比做任何其他事都强，而且对我来说很容易。其实这很让人放松。你知道，对很多人来说，这会让他们发疯。”
“And I said, ‘I got to fix it.’ And I do that better than anybody else,” he added. “Maybe I do it better than anything I do, and it’s easy for me. It’s actually relaxing. You know, for a lot of people, it drives them crazy.”