Jill Biden unveils White House holiday decorations with theme of children's joy

Ehh it’s okay. It doesn’t look very classy even though I appreciate the theme.

Cute!

Much better than Melaniwhore's Eastern European Gothic Gulag Christmas decorations.

Melania had the worst Christmas decorations ever!

Looks like they stole them from a 90s mall

I like them. I think Christmas should be kids oriented.

It's very pretty and festive.

There's a nice sense of wonder that kids would appreciate.

The flying reindeer decor is so Philly

Well it's certainly better than Melania's blood red nightmare, R7.

Dis is too plain, too bland. I prefair mine.

I think it’s very nice and perfect for kids.

Let’s not forget the dark days when Melania decorated the White House with Christmas horrors.

Oh, who gives a fuck about the Chreestmas stuff and decorations anyway?

I like it.

We went from the light, to the darkness.

I'm glad we've returned to the light.

too cheerful

Absolutely love it.

The sexism inherent in first ladies being responsible for the unveiling of holiday decorations is LITERAL VIOLENCE!

Wait until you see my WH Christmas decor!

[quote] Wait until you see my WH Christmas decor!

[quote] —Chasten, Future First Gentleman

Poppers, lube and male strippers?

How dare you!

Jill Biden was in South Jersey.

She was obviously influenced by the Cherry Hill Mall.

Should read: "Jill Biden was born in South Jersey."

The White House is aiming for visitors to embrace “their inner child” with its annual holiday decor, with a theme “inspired by how children experience this festive season.”

The theme, “Magic, Wonder, and Joy,” the White House announced Monday, attempts to capture the “pure, unfiltered delight and imagination of childhood.”

Each room at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., first lady Jill Biden said in remarks released by the White House ahead of a Monday event unveiling the decor before National Guard families, is designed so guests “see this time of year through the wondrous, sparkling eyes of children.”

The festive decorations include nearly 15,000 feet of ribbon, more than 142,000 holiday lights, more than 33,000 ornaments and 22,000 bells.

“Each room evokes a different childhood memory,” Elizabeth Alexander, Biden’s communications director, said.

Several of the spaces include a nod to “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” — the classic poem and book is marking its 200th anniversary this year. Several editions of the work from the last two centuries were provided by the Library of Congress and are on display as part of the White House’s adornments.

The famed Gingerbread White House also gathers some sweet inspiration from the Christmastime poem, with a sugar cookie replica of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” The gingerbread version of the executive mansion took 40 sheets of sugar cookie dough, 90 pounds of pastillage, 40 sheets of gingerbread dough, 30 pounds of chocolate and 50 pounds of royal icing to create, according to the White House.

The hardest part of crafting this year’s gingerbread creation, White House executive pastry chef Susan Morrison told ITK, was making the book “because of how large it is.”

“But nothing is too difficult,” Morrison added with a grin.

Candies and confections make multiple appearances throughout the White House’s halls, with oversized ice cream cones, macaroons and other sweet treats hanging from the ceilings, as well as a “White House Sweet Shop” scene set up in the China Room.

The National Confectioners Association (NCA), which represents the candy industry, said Monday that it “collaborated” with the White House to bring “to life the magic of chocolate and candy and the joyous spirit of the winter holidays.”

The NCA said in a statement that it provided “custom, oversized candy sculptures” as well as “chocolate and candy used to create wreaths, ornaments and other décor and custom chocolate bars that White House visitors will receive during the holiday season.”

The Blue Room features this year’s official White House Christmas tree: an 18 1/2-foot Fraser fir from North Carolina. The chandelier in the Blue Room is removed each year to fit the massive evergreen.

Despite several reported biting incidents by President Biden and Jill Biden’s dog, Commander, this year’s décor continues a tradition of including ornamental odes to the first family pets.

Several sculptures of the Biden’s two-year-old German Shepherd, along with their cat, Willow, are included in the Christmastime lineup.

“Magic, wonder and joy,” Jill Biden said in her prepared remarks.

“I know they can feel hard to find sometimes — as days grow shorter, and the weather colder; as our hearts grow heavy in the face of a tumultuous world; as we miss those who are no longer with us, an empty seat at our holiday gatherings.”

“But it’s in these times, when we are searching for hope and healing, that we need those points of light the most — that we need each other the most,” Biden, a Northern Virginia Community College professor, said.

“It’s in these times that I hope you remember, if even just for a moment or a season, how you saw the world as a child,” the first lady said.

More than 300 volunteers from across the country devoted a week to decorating both the interior and exterior of the White House.

Approximately 100,000 visitors are expected at the White House throughout the holiday season.

Too bad the stripper's kid won't experience the magic of a WH Christmas.

I would be so tempted to eat all of those yummy decorations.

R16 “I. Can’t. Even”

These decorations make me want an Orange Julius.

I quite like the first picture.

Do we really think any first lady has much to do with the actual selection of the holiday decor? Yeah they probably pick a theme and check in on it from time to time but you can bet all this is handled by professionals. First Ladies probably are given choices of do you like this or this better and then the designer puts what the designer wants in the WH.

If I lived at the White House, I would be walking through these displays all by myself, late at night.

They're just so beautiful.

I'll bet it smells wonderful too, with all those pine trees.

[quote] Do we really think any first lady has much to do with the actual selection of the holiday decor? Yeah they probably pick a theme and check in on it from time to time but you can bet all this is handled by professionals.

Do YOU honestly think that any professional designer would have picked out those horrid and hideous designs linked at R2 and R3?????

Please, bitch.

That was ALL Melania's taste. Or I should say, LACK of taste.

Melania bitched because she actually had to participate in decorating the WH.

Melania's Tim Burton-esque decorations were funky and creative. An art installation, a million times better than this crap.

I like red.

Melania's decorations are anti-joy.

Clearly a reflection of her own personal misery and unhappiness.

Then again, if I had to suck Donald Trump's cock for money, I'd probably put up a black forest in the White House too.

R2 "Gothic Gulag" - you got that right. I'd completely forgotten how ghastly it was.

[quote]“I. Can’t. Even”

Me either.

In old country, we have no joy.

Thank you for the JDAM, Santa Biden!

[quote] These decorations make me want an Orange Julius.

Or a Cinnabon or a garlic Parmesan pretzel.

You can appeal to kids without it looking cheap, which it does.

The real question is what will happen to Christmas if Nimrata gets into the WH?????Or will we just keep celebrating Diwali and go crazy with colors and make it FUN!

It looks like my grandmother's attic exploded. In 1973.

Melania's Bittersweet Blood Forest and the Gothic Gulag were huge fuck yous to American sentimentalism.

Typical of a catalog bride imported under a Genius Visa.

Vhat?! Vhat ees these nightmare Chreestmas decorating? Is for dumb prostitution whore stripper with cutesy name like “Kandy Kane”? I hate it.

Where are scary red and black tree? Where are dark, spooky shadows? How the cheeldren to know that Krampius come for them and cut of toes if they not verk hard and makes much much money?

I tell people “Be Best”. Not “Be trash”!

People can't help but draw the companison.

Jill’s trees look like Christmas. Melania’s remind me of Suspiria.

I hate Christmas, but loved Suspiria.

But I also hate the Trumps, so well played, Melania.

Well played.

Should an adultress be decorating the white house?

I bet the Qanon crowd is masturbating furiously about it.

[quote] Should an adultress be decorating the white house?

Are you talking to ME, bitch??

Looks like leftovers from FAO Schwarz.

The White House is not a department store or hotel. It's not a one-month long charity ball. Just stop this nonsense. 98 Christmas trees!? Decor "tunnels" in the corridors. It's all wrong. So much excess can never be good.

Both Jill and Mel have way overdone these holiday decorations, but in contrasting tacky aesthetics. I even give Mel the edge.

Mels hideous decor was modeled on holiday decor in luxury hotel lobbies and boutiques. It's a look. Just had no place in the White House.

Just like Mel sitting at a luxury hotel bar or lobby, she has no place in the White House, r51.

Do we have to pay for all this?

R49 Maybe even more downmarket like KB Toys. Fixtures liquidated in bankruptcy.

Jill Biden Unveils White House Holiday Decorations with Theme of Children's Joy: Why this is Bad News for Biden

Has Jill dropped the “Doctor”? She’s not referred to as such anywhere in this thread.

Breaking News: Melania is no longer First Lady. This thread is about Jill Biden. JFC you freaks are obsessed.

I agree with the above poster that it looks very "90s shopping mall."

Well I thought this thread would be about Jill Biden but no, the Trump obsessed have to shit all over it.

Dirty MAGAT at R57 and R58, wandered in here from Stormfront.

r59 I'm a liberal Democrat but beyond sick and fucking tired of every goddamn thread having Trump inserted into it when Trump should not be part of the conversation. Get fucked and get over your obsession.

R32, it was hideous. We don't want an art installation, we want something cheerful and homey.

R57 When you’re that old, you don’t realize it looks dated.

Some of it looks like a xmas dance in a high school. Like Carrie's prom a bit, too.

[quote]r59 I'm a liberal Democrat but

LOL

It’s so colorful, mismatched, unpretentious and over the top. I like it. They just need some Christmas lights coordinated with music.

How charming that the Military Band left behind a bowl full of jizz!

LOL yourself r64. The Trump obsessives have ruined lots of threads that could've been interesting.

mall decorations

[quote]LOL yourself [R64]. The Trump obsessives have ruined lots of threads that could've been interesting.

Oh poo, how sad.

r69 sick in her own disease

Seriously, this year's White House looks like fucking WestFarms in Farmington circa 1995.

[quote]Melania had the worst Christmas decorations ever!

Blood-red Christmas trees. Clah - ssy, just like her train wreck of a wedding dress. Slovenian hooker tries to imitate the style of rich socialites.

My name is Navy . . .

[quote] Clah - ssy, just like her train wreck of a wedding dress. Slovenian hooker tries to imitate the style of rich socialites.

You can take the hooker out of Slovenia, but you can't take Slovenia out of the hooker!

So true, R74.

I've never seen that photo, R2. Truly horrible. Melania outdid herself in awfulness.

Of course we're obsessed with Trump. He's the bogeyman and he may begin his second Reign of Terror in January 2025.

I guess Jackie Kennedy's White House Christmas tree wasn't bad, though I would have preferred more glitter.

Oh Betty, that tree is just plain hideous. You have no taste. Shame on you.

A little too busy, Hillary.

Not bad, Jill, though the stockings are just a little bit too red-white-and-blue patriotic.

I like the cold white look of the decorations, This year's Christmas by Jill Biden.

No bad, r81, though you seem a bit color-blind.

R81, That was 2022.

Christmas at the White House through the various administrations.

R81, Abe appears unimpressed.

[quote]No bad, R81, though you seem a bit color-blind.

I'm pretty sure I know what red, white and blue look like. Do you, R83?

Pat went with red long before Melania.

^Try this . . .

The colours of some of the Obama's decorations are a little too gaudy.

I miss the bloody trees!

Maybe it was her tribute to communist China, R89.

Michelle Obama made this tree a little too bland.

[quote]R81, Abe appears unimpressed.

I'd like to see him do better. I wonder what the typical Christmas tree looked like in the 1860s.

You no like? Is big.

I guess in the 1860s, trees were decorated with candles and you had to constantly watch them or you'd burn down your house.

That dress is frightening, Melanie / R95. No one is going to mistake you for an elegant socialite.

R95, Could Bess Truman pull that off?

[quote]I'm pretty sure I know what red, white and blue look like. Do you, R83?

Since they are red, white and green, gentle r87, I am going to go with 'yes'.

Abe and Mary . . .

Just throw every decoration you own onto the tree. It won't look too busy.

Thanks for the interesting article, R100.

[quote]You no like? Is big.

You look like a Slovenian hooker who married a rich(?) grifter.

[quote]Since they are red, white and green, gentle R87, I am going to go with 'yes'.

Fine. They're still tacky.

I don't need an eye exam. The green part of the stocking is very small in that photo.

[quote] Oh Betty, that tree is just plain hideous. You have no taste. Shame on you.

Don't blame Betty.

Blame the alcohol.

I like blue.

Is Hillary bi? The hairstyle says "yes".

[quote] Is Hillary bi? The hairstyle says "yes".

Hillary is not bisexual, but her tongue sure is!

Lol, R108.