"Without evidence"

From the Washington Post:

Often spending days ensconced in the presidential residence, Trump relishes giving tours to acquaintances and strangers by the hundreds, bragging all the while about improving it while he lives there, according to nearly a dozen visitors and current and former White House aides, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal details of the private events. With dangling new chandeliers and imported artwork added during his tenure, showing guests around the White House is among his favorite activities, they said.

... The president has also claimed to guests, without evidence, that his private dining room off the Oval Office was in “rough shape” and had a hole in the wall when he came into the West Wing and that President Barack Obama used it to watch sports, according to two White House officials and two other people who have heard him discuss the dining room. “He just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” Trump told a recent group, before saying he upgraded Obama’s smaller TV to a sprawling, flat-screen one, the four people said. (Read the article here.)

And from Pete Souza, who was Obama's official White House photographer for eight years:

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The first photograph is looking down the short hallway from the Oval Office to President Obama’s private dining room (he’s in the midst of his weekly lunch with Vice President Biden). Comrade Minus claims that when he came into office, the dining room was in “rough shape and had a hole in the wall” (see Josh Dawsey’s article in The Washington Post). “He (Obama) just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” according to minus. Click through the pictures to see what President Obama actually did in the dining room with a variety of people: he had lunch. If you spot the hole in the wall, you win a free trip to visit the medieval concrete wall in Mexico.

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