Before Twitter decides to get even more worked up about this: Pretty good chance it was on loan from a museum or a private collection for decoration and is therefore being recalled at the end of the term.
https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1349810898454638592
Let’s be realistic here, if you were actually going to steal an item from the permanent WH collection, you would probably not do it in the middle of the day w/ press around, nor would you just carry something out without some sort of case or covering to obscure what the item is.
Let’s also be clear that the permanent collection is managed by the WH curator. The current curator, while appointed by Trump will likely be around for a while yet (previous one served under 3 Presidents) and she has worked in the WH since the Carter administration.
The curator certainly knows what is part of the permanent collection and everything is carefully inventoried. Something doesn’t just go missing after being seen on camera leaving the WH with an identifiable person. That would be unbelievably easy to track down.
Not that there certainly have never been disagreements (notably when it involves gifts given while the Administration was in office). Though those get resolved and isn't anything the curator wasn't aware of/part of the misunderstanding on the side of the person taking.
One rather notable instance: abcnews.go.com/Politics/story…
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