The decoration Mr. Trump has splattered across the Oval Office is inspired by European Baroque and Rococo of the 1600s and 1700s, when power was shown through ornate displays of grotesque abundance.

Hello from Berlin and welcome back to Europe Express Weekend. Since taking office as Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz has embarked on a whirlwind of international trips — earning the ...

Many foreign leaders come to the Oval Office with a plan to flatter Donald Trump. When Canada’s Mark Carney arrived at the White House on Tuesday, it was the US president doing the flattery.

When you’re in the hot seat on the Oval Office “Apprentice,” it helps to have your own personal media outlet. But Mr. Trump, his monopoly on attention has shown, still controls television.

Elon Musk's time in the Trump administration has come to an end with a news conference in the Oval Office in which he and the US president defended the work of Doge - and vowed it would continue ...

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 31. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) When the 47th president does something right, he repents by doing something that contradicts it.

In a bruising Oval Office meeting, the visitors’ plan to keep President Trump from focusing on false accusations of white genocide backfired spectacularly.

John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with an elaborate ...