Wire reporting: (AP, via ClickOrlando)

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a document he said would designate the White House Oval Office and Cabinet Room as a national monument, a step he described as blocking later alterations to those rooms^1,3.

The Associated Press identified the instrument as a proclamation signed in the Oval Office¹. Source New Mexico, part of States Newsroom, described it as an executive order establishing the two spaces as a national monument so that major renovations would require congressional approval³.

Cox stations including ClickOrlando carried the AP report².

Trump told reporters the rooms should not be altered by later occupants³. Source New Mexico quoted him saying, “We’ve had a lot of victories in this office”³.

The signing came two days after voters shifted control of Congress, according to the AP account carried by Cox^1,2. Source New Mexico said Republicans lost majorities in both chambers and that Trump has spent the week highlighting Washington construction projects, including work at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool³.

Source New Mexico reported that Trump tore down the East Wing to build a ballroom³. The AP report said he has changed several White House rooms since returning to office, including adding portraits, a copy of the Declaration of Independence and gold accents in the Oval Office^1,2.

Whether a presidential proclamation or order can permanently bar future presidents from remodeling those rooms, and whether Congress must ratify it, was not independently established in the accounts reviewed^1,3.