Christmas decorations at the White House - in pictures

[left-of-center2012]

More photos at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/nov/26/christmas-decorations-white-house-in-pictures

Trees made from red berries line the East Colonnade. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters


At 18ft tall, the official White House Christmas tree is dressed in more than 500ft of blue velvet ribbon embroidered in gold with each state and territory
Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images


Baubles adorned with Melania Trump’s ‘Be Best’ initiative. The Red Room is decorated to celebrate ways in which children can excel in life
Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images


‘Be Best’ pencils hang in the window in the Red Room
Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters


A nativity scene in the East Room
Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

[Achilleaze]

1. Krappy Kremlin-themed kristmas for the KGOP republicans

[notdarkyet]

2. I was thinking Transylvania.

[onethatcares]

3. I like the dog on the right and

where did they buy those pencils from? Is it another grift?

[DFW]

4. I remember the East Wing at Christmas during the Obama years

But now? "Been away so long I hardly knew the place.......I'm back in the USSR"

And I hate to think what the buffet must consist of these days at the WH Christmas parties. Hot and cold running Big Macs and Diet Cokes, I suppose.

[Solly Mack]

5. redrum redrum redrum

[lilactime]

6. Yuck. What a hideous assault on my eyeballs.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Looks more like a

messed up Target Commercial from years ago.

[area51]

8. Gah.

[struggle4progress]

9. "I'm dreaming of a white beep-best ..."

[underpants]

10. No wonder Betsy DeVos couldn't find any pencils her first day at Education

Melania's been um hoarding them

[LAS14]

11. In the same vein (vain?) - stuff the base is sharing on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=210734166485080&set=a.127940111431153&type=3&eid=ARDf1ti-XYPVMRHNVYfY_J80_phVxw-kAbaVHeJGd-B6wSVPEb_rs2brzBZV8Rh9wlDB7X6iYQVkNMoP

[PSPS]

12. They have the nativity scene wrong

None of the figures have a machine gun slung over their shoulder.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Better dead than R E D!

[underpants]

14. Gee look who's on the low ground.

[llmart]

15. Tacky - the first word that came to my mind.

Pencils that say "Be Best" (which means nothing anyone can understand) for decoration?

Such hideous taste.