Melania Trump has already given the White House its Halloween 2025 makeover despite its East Wing being reduced to nothing to make room for US President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom. The official account backed by the First Lady’s Office on X took to the social media platform earlier and shared a snap of the fall decorations and staircases lined up with pumpkins.

This marks the Trump family’s first Halloween during the Republican leader’s second administration. While Melania was off setting up spooky decorations at the White House, another abode tied to the POTUS’ childhood in New York witnessed some movement as well.

Donald Trump’s childhood home back on the market?

Although Trump is occupied with the million-dollar renovations at the presidential residence, his old five-bedroom home at 85-15 Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, Queens, is also boasting a new and modern “Manhattan” aesthetic, according to the Daily Mail.

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Living with his parents and four siblings, Donald Trump called this place his home until he was four years old. Finally, in 1950, the lot shifted to another abode nearby. Built by his father, Fred, in 1940, the house is already attracting praise and concerns in its new era of renovations.

People living in the area have since spoken their heart out, revealing that the place that had been abandoned for nearly a decade had faced the brunt of flooding, power outages, pests and even potential thefts. While the work on the NY home is now completed, neighbours have expressed their anxieties about who might be its new owner.

Describing Donald Trump’s former house an “eyesore,” a neighbour told the UK outlet that its dilapidated condition over the years had brought down the value of all other homes in the neighbourhood as well.

Left to rot, Trump’s former home was finally bought earlier in 2025

“We are delighted that it has been renovated and looks good. Our only concern is that the new owner doesn’t rent it out to St John’s students, which often happens in this neighborhood,” he added. Yet another local quipped about the parallels between Trump’s childhood market hitting the market while he is “putting a bulldozer to the East Wing of the White House and removing part of history.”

While those living nearby are counting on someone nice moving in, the property hasn’t still officially hit the market. Sources privy to its reported sale suggested that the place could be valued at more than $1 million a shortly before the New York City mayoral election on November 4.

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Earlier this year, the MAGA leader’s old home sold for $835,000, facing a significant cut from the $2.14 million price tag it bore when it was previously sold in 2017. However, neighbours ultimately told media that the people who snapped up the place at the time never lived in the home, leaving the home to rot. From burst water pipes to an attempted break-in, the property has seen it all and more. At one point, locals had even found the Queens home had been taken over by feral cats.

According to Mansion Global, an LLC called ‘Trump Birth House’ purchased the property from flipper Michael Davis in 2017. The place was then briefly transformed into an Airbnb rental.