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Trump's Staff Complain of Cockroach, Mice and Ants in the White House

Someone also requested a new toilet seat for the Oval Office

time.com

The White House may be elaborately decorated for the holidays this time of year, but work orders reveal the presidential mansion is also infested with mice, cockroaches and ants.

The vermin came to light when NBC News4 Washington obtained hundreds of work requests stretching back two years. Maintenance staff members at the White House were asked to respond to reports of mice in both the White House Navy mess and in the Situation Room, according to NBC.

Staffers also found cockroaches in at least four different places on the White House grounds. Another report showed ants in the White House chief of staff’s office.

The president’s restaurants, resorts, and golf clubs have all been cited for extensive health-code violations, including the presence of rodents.

Health inspectors have for years turned in stomach-churning reports of rats, mice, cockroaches, and other pests in the kitchens and food-preparation areas at Trump properties in New York, Florida, and Las Vegas. One infestation in the main kitchen of Trump’s Doral golf club in 2015 was so bad that health inspectors recommended that the place be temporarily shut down.

As late as last year [Feb. 2019], health inspectors in New York reported a likely rodent problem at the restaurant in the president’s flagship Trump Tower property. 

• The inspection turned up “evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas” and “conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.”
• In 2017, inspectors found “filth flies” buzzing around the food in the Trump Tower kitchen. Employees, sported “soiled” garments and were not wearing hair nets.
• IN 2016, inspectors found live roaches.

• Florida authorities reported 524 health-code violations from 2013 to 2018
• In 2015, they found “approximately 20-25 live roaches... on the walls, baseboards and floors in the kitchen food prep area and behind a utensil table inside a wall crack.” 
• They also reported between 20 and 30 “live, small flying insects... in the kitchen and dishwasher room.”
• ordered to shutdown  —  temporarily

• health inspectors also reported potential vermin problems. 
• The restaurant, they reported after a 2012 inspection, did not have “effective pest control measures.”
• Expired food, including yogurt and caviar, were also among the 51 health-code violations inspectors found during that visit.

Health inspectors have cited its

• main clubhouse kitchen for 51 health-code violations since 2013
• its “beach club” kitchen for another 30.
• employees who don’t wash their hands 
• poultry stored at dangerously high temperatures
• Rust, mold, parasites: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago cited for 78 health violations in the last three years
• World Leaders risked food poisoning at president’s Mar-a-Lago club,  The Times - April 14 2017   

• Heath Department Investigates Salmonella Outbreak at Trump Restaurant in  the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, AP July 23, 1991