Vice President JD Vance looks mesmerized as he set foot inside the Oval Office for the first time on Tuesday, during a stunning moment captured on film.

President Donald Trump defended the pardons he issued to January 6 participants in his first interview since returning to the presidency. "They were very minor incidents, and it was time," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview held at the Oval Office.

The rug, which was in place during Ronald Reagan’s administration and during Trump’s first term, was reinstalled during Trump’s inauguration ceremony, according to CBS News. The Resolute Desk had to be partially disassembled in order to facilitate its return.

House Speaker Mike Johnson noted the significance of Vice President JD Vance entering the Oval Office, saying that the Vance's journey from "humble circumstances" to the Washington, D.C., could only happen in the U.

WASHINGTON — The full contents of the letter former President Joe Biden left for President Trump has been revealed.

President Trump was eager on Monday to point out contrasts with his Democratic predecessor, including a free-wheeling Oval Office press conference.

Trump said domestic and international challenges over the last four years would not have happened had he been president.

"Maybe we should all read it together," Trump told reporters upon finding Biden's letter. "Maybe I'll read it first and then make that determination."

Federal agencies, employees and contractors are trying to process how President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-DEI executive order will upend their work.

Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in America.