President-Elect Joe Biden is due to formally occupy The White House after his inauguration on 20 January 2021. For those who take an interest in such things, The White House was not formally called such until 1901, when President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the building its name. Previously it had been informally known by the term, but also as ‘The President’s Palace’, the ‘President’s House’, and the ‘Executive Mansion’.
For the residence of the most powerful person in the world, The White House is surprisingly modest, considerably smaller than the likes of Buckingham Palace, The Élysée, Quirinal, Kremlin, Hofburg and The Forbidden City. No doubt Trump, who supposedly called the White House a ‘real dump’, would have wanted something more grandiose in his second, third, fourth etc terms. If he had actually won the recent election, that is.
Incidentally, The White House has its own movie theatre, where Trump has screened pictures such as Finding Dory, The Greatest Showman and Joker.
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