What exactly are those ugly gold reliefs above the oval

[TommyT139]

5. Two possibilities come to mind:

Visiting oligarchs and authoritarian dignitaries bring gold nuggets with them when they visit. Trump takes double stick tape and splats them on the wall, to be removed when he leaves, or when Jr. needs cocaine money.

or

Trump has kidnapped the golden goose of American exceptionalism, keeping it barely fed with a steady diet of spam and glitter. Chained to the chandelier, it can only fly around in tortured circles, crapping out a sticky substance that adheres to those walls that have seen so, so much.