West Wing office space has long been a status symbol in official Washington where proximity and access to the president can equate to influence.

Just two days after Election Day, Maggie Mosher, a retired history teacher based in San Jose, California, began setting up raised beds to build a winter garden in her backyard. Never before had Mosher contemplated growing food in the winter as well as the peak growing months of the spring and summer.

Incoming Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles pledged no tolerance for "drama" or "backbiting" in his second term during a rare interview published Monday.