Someone Was Throwing Shit Out a White House Window

In 2015, Michelle Obama revealed that the Secret Service doesn’t allow anyone to open White House windows due to security concerns.

By Lauren Tousignant  |  September 2, 2025 | 1:02pm
Photo: Instagram @WashingtonProblems Politics
Someone Was Throwing Shit Out a White House Window

It was a weird Labor Day weekend! Between Tuesday and Saturday, Trump wasn’t seen in public—and with no White House events on the calendar, the internet wondered if he had died. But then he was photographed heading to golf with his granddaughter, Kai, on Saturday afternoon—though he does appear kind of corpse-like in the photo, if we’re being honest. He remains extremely—some might say suspiciously—active on Truth Social, writing that he’s “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE” and also that he’s giving Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a day after Giuliani got in a car crash in New Hampshire and reportedly fractured his spine. To top it off, Trump’s making an unspecified announcement from the Oval Office today at 2 p.m. EST—which is…weird!

To add to all the suspicion, on Sunday, footage of someone throwing shit out of a White House window—which is reportedly a big Secret Service no-no—went viral. The clip was posted by Washingtonian Problems, a popular Instagram account with over 600,000 followers that regularly posts memes and footage from around D.C. The video hasn’t been verified, but the post said the footage was submitted anonymously.

“One of our community members noticed some things being thrown out of one of The White House’s windows today,” the account captioned the footage. “Doing some deep Sunday cleaning? 👀”

The internet quickly declared that it looked like the person was in a room attached to the solarium—a private part of the White House typically used by the First Family, but it’s unclear if the Trumps use it all.

The video is too far away to make out who the person in the window is or what they’re throwing out. (The U.S. Constitution???) But, commenters quickly pointed out that the Secret Service doesn’t allow the White House windows (or car windows) to be opened for security reasons.

“I want to do little things, like, you know, open a window,” Michelle Obama told Stephen Colbert in 2015, of what she was looking forward to about leaving the White House. “One day, as a treat, my lead agent let me have my windows open on the way to Camp David. It was like five minutes out. He was like, ‘Windows open. Enjoy it.’”

Anyway, stay tuned for 2 p.m., I guess. Though I’d wager he’s just officially announcing that the Department of Defense is now the Department of War, or that he’s officially declaring martial law in any city that waves a Pride flag, or that he’s launching his own Trump Nobel Peace Prize and he’s announcing himself as the inaugural recipient, or something.

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