Trump's last legacy: The President is thinking of turning the White House press room into

American President Donald Trump is considering transforming the current press rooms at the White House into a pool and would have stated - in a private meeting - that he wants it to be his "last inheritance," revealed the New York Times on Tuesday, according to EFE, transmitted Wednesday. According to three anonymous sources quoted by the newspaper, President Trump had brought this idea up several times with his former press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who resigned on August 27, although the proposal did not materialize. The James S. Brady press room is the daily workplace of journalists covering the White House for over 50 years, so replacing this space without offering an alternative would practically mean expelling the press from the presidential complex. History The proposal would restore the original use of this space, where in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) ordered the construction of an indoor pool as part of his therapy for his legs, affected by polio. Richard Nixon (1969-1974) later covered the pool to turn the place into a press room, inaugurated in 1970. Even from the first term of President Donald Trump (2017-2021), the possibility of moving the press from the West Wing of the White House to the nearby Eisenhower executive office building has been discussed. For decades, the presence of reporters in the presidential complex, a few steps from the Oval Office, was considered a symbol of press freedom, enshrined in the American Constitution. Donald Trump, very critical of the traditional press, is pursuing a legal battle to try and prevent access to the White House for journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, whom he accuses of spreading "false news" about him, although a judge temporarily stopped the measure of the president. Although the American leader usually appears daily in front of the press, he has frequent conflicts with journalists, as happened on Tuesday when he asked one of them to be quiet and called him "sick." Donald Trump, a former real estate magnate, has also started several works in the presidential residence in an attempt to leave his mark, including the construction of a large ballroom that required the demolition of the East Ridge. Editor: Sebastian Eduard