By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2025-03-12 19:41:13 | Updated at 2025-03-12 23:52:32
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President Trump’s top aide gave a behind-the-scenes look at the “fake Oval Office” used by former President Joe Biden during several photo ops that sent critics into a frenzy over the 46th commander in chief’s health.
Alina Habba gave her half a million social media followers a look at the faux White House rooms the last administration used, including state-of-the-art lights, screens and teleprompters.
“We’re in Biden’s fake Oval Office, everybody,” Habba said in the video posted to X.
Despite Habba calling it the Oval Office, the set was decorated to look like a generic room in the White House not the famed round office where major presidential events are held.
Habba sat behind a dark, wooden desk in front of an American flag and a blue and white sign on the wall with an outline showing the north front of the White House.
“I now know why, I now get it,” the Trump lawyer said before directing the person behind the camera to turn around.
The stage, set up in an auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, has lights, teleprompters, cameras and theater seating.
Following the impromptu tour, the camera landed back on Habba, who took a jab at Biden’s term in office.
“All I can say is the last administration was a disgratz,” she added.
Biden used the White House replica inside the EEOB throughout his presidency — most famously when he received his COVID-19 shot during the height of the vaccine rollout in the country.
That set was created in the South Court of the EEOB, across the street from the real White House.
It also featured fake windows and a digital display of the White House Rose Garden in full bloom.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller accused Biden of needing the room to read scripts off the teleprompter, which he couldn’t inside the real White House.
“The reason Biden uses this bizarre virtual set for televised meetings — and not an actual room like East Room, Cabinet, Oval, Roosevelt, Sit Room, etc. — is because it allows him to read a script directly from a face-on monitor (& w/out teleprompter glass that can be seen on camera),” he tweeted.
The set Habba was on appeared similar to the one Biden used for a virtual meeting with leaders of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in June 2022.
