Trump floats replacing White House briefing room with indoor pool

A) Couldn't fill the position, wants to destroy the room and make the White House more like Mar a Lago. B) Professional liars say that an obese 80-year-old man who is notorious for not exercising wants a swimming pool.

CNN Gives The Trump Administration Until 5pm Thursday To End Its Air Force One And Oval Office Exclusions Or Face Further Legal Action, Saying That The White House Is Blocking Its Press Pool Duties After A Judge Ordered Access Restored www.cnn.com/2026/10/20/m...

More White House destruction. He wants to tear down the briefing room and put in a pool. That's not a joke. We need a check on this mad man! Regime change begins 11/3 Gifted www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

The swimming pool is still underneath the plywood floor of the press briefing room, but Trump’s not interested in swimming (or risk being seen in his exoskeleton). He wants more privacy for his corruption.

Press briefings in the swimming pool would be a bit inconvinient.

Under no circumstances do you ever "have to hand it to trump" but there actually is a (non functional) swimming pool underneath the WH press briefing room. It remains a dumb idea regardless of that fact.

Trump just waved at no one today and randomly announced that he wants a swimming pool in the White House, but the lucid cancer patient two years out of office is the real fucking scandal. FOH.

Not to mention that FDR's indoor swimming pool was literally undone to create the WH press briefing room!

Trump Floated Kicking Press Out of WH and Replacing Briefing Room With a Swimming Pool — NYT’s Maggie Haberman Reports

Evicting the White House press corps is Project 2025. Putting in a pool is not…

The White House Press Room was installed in 1970 by Nixon atop the former swimming pool installed in the 1930s by FDR, which evidently still exists. But hard to imagine except as an alibi (Trump, water).

It's doubly ridiculous, given that Nixon covered up the indoor pool to build the press room in the first place. 🤷‍♂️

"Trump Pushes to Evict the Press From the White House President Trump has talked about replacing the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with an indoor swimming pool." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

The press room is actually built on top of a pool they built for FDR.

My brother-in-law used to be a GSA electrician assigned to the White House, and back in the day when GSA electricians were allowed to sign people into the White House we went on a couple of tours and he regaled us with the JFK/MM rumours about the swimming pool when we went to the Press room.