Trump Asked For Cherished Piece Of History To Be Moved To Oval Office: Report

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Trump Asked For Cherished Piece Of History To Be Moved To Oval Office: Report

President

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, who was accused of hoarding classified documents after his first term, has apparently moved on to coveting perhaps America’s most historic document in his second.

Trump asked his team recently about moving the

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into the Oval Office,

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Thursday, citing “people familiar with the conversation.”

His aides responded with “alarm,” the magazine wrote, because of the cost and logistics that would be involved.

The delicate animal-parchment artifact, adopted on July 4, 1776, to

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, is exhibited in the National Archives Building behind sealed, heavy glass in casing that can retract into the wall for safekeeping, The Atlantic noted.

Common sense prevailed to the “relief” of advisers and Trump eventually backed down, still leaving open the possibility that a valuable copy could be relocated to the White House, according to the report.

“President Trump strongly believes that significant and historic documents that celebrate American history should be shared and put on display,” White House spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote in an email to The Atlantic.

Many observers can perhaps

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that Trump has an inflated sense of historical worth.

He has

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to Abraham Lincoln, but lately

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.

Then-Prince Charles views the Declaration of Independence as the future king of the United Kingdom visits the National Archives in 2015. via Associated Press

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