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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like...

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Only thing he's missing now is the golden shower.

[–] DeLancre@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago

He got that already got that in Moscow

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 9 points 16 hours ago

I'm GLAD we Gutted my VA Benefits to be Able to afford THAT!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago

His polling is wild and all over the place. He's underwater, but so are the dems.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 13 points 19 hours ago

Looks really byzantine, kinda something some russian tzar would have done if they were re-decorating

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Dude has a gold fetish. Your president, america. Choke on it.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 30 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

New money energy.

I also didn't notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Pimp My Whitehouse

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Trump reminds me of Baron Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo. Both are tasteless nouveau riche bankrupts with repellent physiognomy.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Painting over a pedophile's mistakes is going to be the theme in America for an entire generation.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago
[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

Jesus, that is so gaudy.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What more proof do you need that a pee tape exists? That’s the aesthetic of someone with an insatiable golden shower fetish.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Clarification:

The Pee Pee Tape purportedly shows Trump directing two underage prostitutes to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept on when they visited Moscow during his presidency. This amused him greatly. What went on beyond that with the underage prostitutes is unknown, but we already know that's his type. Now we know the kinds of activities that he finds amusing.

[–] StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 4 points 19 hours ago

That sounds like the kind of stuff his base would not only enthusiastically forgive, but even celebrate for triggering the libs.

His advisors likely knows this, so when crawl around on all four to obey Putin, it's not because his forced to but because he wants to.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Emil_Zatopek1982@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

And the decor is awful too.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You could have decided not to turn up the saturation to make it look worse, as it looks already terrible...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it saturation or just room lighting? This could also just have been a different camera with different settings. Not like Trump hires competent people.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Look at the wall papers and chairs. The lower picture has saturation upped to the limit. But true, maybe that was the original photographer and not whoever assembled this meme.

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[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 points 18 hours ago

I dunno, I think he looks terrible at any saturation.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs... They don't just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).

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[–] yarr 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Trump: Democrats have wasted all our money. I want to make our country more efficient.

Also Trump: Please gild everything within my eyesight.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Thar doesn't seem accurate.

Trump never says "please" unless he's talking to Putin.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 23 hours ago

This photo doesn't do it justice. I recently saw a wide, pan shot of the Oval Office when Tim Apple was slobbering on HitlerPig's fat ass, and he he has filled every empty space with those ugly gold doodads.

They should use them as kindling when he gets burned at the stake on the White House lawn.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

all that gold is disgusting in every way possible. that gold/money and the work that was put into putting it there could have help in child cancer research, or helping the poor and less fortunate around the USA and the world. Trump is not what America stands for and him defacing the white house like he is, is prof of that.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I hate to break it to you, but Trump is exactly what America stands for...

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Everytime I say that about gaudy old churches I get a very different reaction. Every religion does it but its "art" or "symbolic" so somehow that gets a pass. Fuck opulence in every setting.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is it solid gold or just gold plated junk?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

God, I hope the company that they contracted with lied to them and just used brass or something.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, and the decorations are too.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like the Kremlin...

[–] droans@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those eagles remind me of something, but I'm not thinking Russian...

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[–] Sans_Seraph@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"I PROMISE IM NOT A TASTELESS FASCIST, GUTTING SOCIAL SERVICES AND SELLING INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER AS A MEANS OF EXTRACTING VALUE FROM THE WORK OTHERS PUT INTO BUILDING THIS NATION, AND FUNNELING IT TO THE ULTRA-WEALTHY FOR MY OWN PERSONAL BENIFIT!"

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (36 children)
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[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 128 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

trinity broadcasting network aesthetic.

Also, this isn't the epstein files.

[–] Slovene 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He's the real life Goldmember, isn't he?

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you ever get another Dem president, which is doubtful, it's going to take a minute to hose out the whore flair from the White House.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (5 children)

We need a working class president not some corrupt neoliberal democrat with no teeth

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You will never get a working class president if change doesn’t happen locally first. Young people don’t vote in local elections and young people don’t put themselves on the ballot of local elections. It’s why actual change at the top will never happen. You can’t expect the average Joe, who isn’t very politically engaged, to vote for a socialist president if they have never experienced what a socialist politician can do for them. That experience needs to happen at the local level. The US needs more Mamdani’s across the entire country and not just in New York.

The reason why Dump is president and co-opted the GOP is because the Tea Party started winning local elections first and pushing out Republican incumbent. They created the momentum so a moron like Drumpf could win a presidential primary.

And they didn’t just do it in political elections even non political elections like school board elections etc. were captured by the Tea Party.

The left needs to copy the Tea Party playbook.

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[–] debil@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I can almost spot the remaining human rights in the lower image's fireplace.

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