But with these butt-monkeys in charge, they may be charging by the peek.

The original is still in the National Ardhives.

So, it is valuable and likely subject to light damage.

It is ridiculous to display it there when a modern copy could be framed and fully displayed. It is just his damned ego to have this rare copy (he wanted to display the damned ORIGINAl) displayed...

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It is obviously a more modern copy. I'm sure they're just humoring Trump and letting him think it is an old copy. It clearly isn't . Take a look at it. No fading at all. All the lettering crisp and clear. No way is the copy in Trump's office old.

It’s still a rare copy that light could damage.

By using laminated glass panes. The UV light that causes the damage is filtered by the lamination layers PVA or PVB.

than protection from UV. Symbolically, I think it represents control and limiting access.

I was referring to the typical glass pane protecting against physical and chemical threats

Makes him feel special to think he has a 'precious'.

How long until he yanks if off the wall, breaks the glass and sets fire to it, thinking that will undo everything?

Thanks for posting.

didn't they fire the workers from there??? Is he going to eliminate the 4th of July???

Can we really say we are Independent??????

Imagine PT Barnum “come one, come all and see the amazingly beautiful fake Declaration of Independence. Please open the curtain - ta da!”

Ultra violet and other light waves can damage the parchment and fade the ink.

That is if the National Archives actually allowed for one of their originals to be placed there. My guess is not, and it's a replica, which Trump gets to go through the whole "show" of opening the curtains.

He’s trying to pretend that his copy IS the original.

I don't remember that, but it's probably been 50+ years since I've seen it.

In his mushy brain it IS the original..

It’s badly due to exposure to sunlight.

It’s currently

Certainly not respect by Trump.

Enlightenment about to be occluded by MAGA brilliance.

but I think it is probably from the first time printing it. so it is valuable and rare, but not the original.

Yes, curtaining is appropriate for the original held in the national archives. Trump is trying to mimic the hallowedness befitting the original, despite the fact that a recent interview he gave shows he knows nothing about it.

No, seriously...go read it. We're up to about a half dozen of the same actions that bought King George a straight-up revolution.

"President Trump has remade the Oval Office, adding a copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a curtain, and lots of golden touches...........

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5334676/gold-statues-and-a-declaration-of-independence-copy-trumps-oval-office-redesign

I would bet there will be a throne in there soon. maybe in front of the fireplace, with Don holding court.

The lettering on the real Declaration of Independence is so light, it's barely legible. What is in Trump's office is probably a replica. Another ruse to fool the old gizzard. It's embarrassing the way he peddles the lies.

I take it he hasn't read the thing, because a lot of George III's acts that precipitated it are things Trump is currently doing.