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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] DeLancre@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

He got that already got that in Moscow

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 32 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day ago

Pimp My Whitehouse

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

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

https://www.realclearpolling.com/

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Jesus, that is so gaudy.

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 128 points 2 days ago (21 children)

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

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[–] 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 14 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 298 points 2 days ago (3 children)

All tinpot dictators prefer this kind of "style".

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 251 points 2 days ago (24 children)

This picture makes me fucking ashamed to be an american. What a backward-ass shithole country we've become.

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[–] 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 (3 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.

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

And the decor is awful too.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 15 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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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (33 children)
[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Daddy always said, you can't by class, but you can watch people try"

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[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days 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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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 144 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Tacky as hell. This administration has all the class and style of a Spirit Halloween store.

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 167 points 2 days ago (4 children)

There's a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the "architecture of fascism" the "art of awe" etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.

Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It looks like the Kremlin...

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[–] Slovene 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago
[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] akakevbot@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I was sure this was photoshopped and there was no way that was real...

It's real. This is just unbelievable.

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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago

You can't buy taste.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

If you are intelligent you wouldn't need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.

If you are a good leader you wouldn't need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.

If you are good at making deals you wouldn't need to talk about it because you'd have a stack of deals to prove it.

If you are good at business you wouldn't need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.

Etc etc etc.

This smacks of "look how well things are going !! If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?"

Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.

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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 123 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] debil@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

trinity broadcasting network aesthetic.

Also, this isn't the epstein files.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] yarr 8 points 1 day 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.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day 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.

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