President Donald Trump clearly made the day of several contractors renovating the White House on Friday when he invited the hardworking men to come to the Oval Office, and he gave them some goodies.
In a series of videos posted on X from the White House Special Assistant to the President and Communications Advisor, Margo Martin, we first can see Trump heading to “The People’s House” gift shop, which she notes in the caption is “across the street from the White House”:
President @realDonaldTrump wears his “Trump Was Right About Everything Hat” as he makes a surprise appearance at ‘The People’s House’ gift shop across the street from the White House🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/qly37cT5cc
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) August 22, 2025
Then Martin posted one of four workers visiting with Trump in the Oval Office as he tossed each of them bright red caps that read “Make America Great Again” with the numbers 45 and 47 on the side, for his terms as president.
Martin captioned the latter post, “President @realDonaldTrump invites the hardworking men renovating the White House into the Oval Office!”
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President @realDonaldTrump invites the hardworking men renovating the White House into the Oval Office! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/QkIj432UqE
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) August 22, 2025
Trump joked with the men that they could put the hats up for “$25,000 on eBay” if they wanted, and the guys just laughed.
He then invited them over to the Resolute Desk and started handing them what appeared to be buttons or possibly drink coasters out of the top of his desk drawer.
However, it turns out it was neither of those things, and was instead “challenge coins”:
🚨 NOW: President Trump invites the hard working men renovating the White House into the Oval Office and gives them challenge coins
No President has cared more about the working man than 47. And it ain’t close 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/5bG7rkn34U
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 22, 2025
The clip has been widely praised on social media, with people rightly pointing out that this is the side of Trump towards which people really love and gravitate.
We got to see it on the campaign trail, too, when he donned an apron at McDonald’s and again, when he surprised everyone and showed up wearing an orange safety vest while riding in the passenger side of a garbage truck.
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Earlier in 2025, RedState reported on Trump’s interaction with a bunch of construction workers at the White House who were helping to install two American flag poles on the White House grounds.
As the report noted, Trump got the workers cracking up when he talked about the ins and outs of Hollywood and more.
The report read:
Speaking to members of the press on the grounds of the newly constructed flag poles, Trump stood with a bunch of workers donning hard hats and neon yellow construction shirts.
Trump first joked that he needed to “get these guys back to work. They are making a fortune” before he started talking about them being discovered by a Hollywood producer for appearing on camera with him.
“They’re standing around making a fortune,” Trump said. “But remember this, somewhere in this group is somebody that is going to captivate some movie producer. Not Harvey Weinstein, but somebody else. Harvey’s seen a better day.”
“So, it won’t be Harvey, but it will be somebody,” he added. “And he’ll say, ‘That guy is perfect for a movie.’ And you are going to become a star. And your friends are going to call you, and you won’t even return their phone calls anymore. And you will say, ‘What do you do for a living? I put up flag poles. I’m not even going to talk to you. I’m a big movie star.”
“So, somewhere here you have that,” Trump continued, as the construction crew continued laughing
It’s so great that we get almost four more years of this kind of stuff.
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