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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

2016 long read Donald Trump, Florida Man The first night Trump had guests in his new ballroom, on New Year’s Eve in 2004... He said he had workers roll $7 million worth of 24-karat gold onto the walls and ceilings... “It’s got the feel and look of Louis XIV, and that’s my favorite style.”

jul 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 7 4

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

He's building a $200M White House Ballroom! "where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits... constructed in 1902 + has been renovated and changed many times, with a second story added in 1942" Obscene Louis XVI cosplay from Trump www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

AI rendering of the proposed great Trump ballroom. It's a huge white room with huge vaulted ceilings, tall windows on 3 sides and golden chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and golden candelabra-style lamps stand along the walls in-between grand Corinthian (?) columns. The floor is filled by long rows of round dining tables surrounded by 12 golden chairs. It appears to have a checkerboard design of white and dark gold but hard to see. It gives the impression of a mid-range Indian wedding venue.
jul 31, 2025, 9:52 pm • 13 3 • view
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bluepfist.bsky.social @bluepfist.bsky.social

Louis XIV, we pray he gets to cosplay Louis XVI.

jul 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

oh I'm tired

jul 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Stevie D @stevieinselby.bsky.social

It's giving off a certain vibe...

Nicolae Ceausescu's Palace
jul 31, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Daniel 🇦🇺 @danielaus.bsky.social

Trump want to create USA monarchy

jul 31, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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✨𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝✨ @thefrankaccount.bsky.social

Daniel hello!

jul 31, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Daniel 🇦🇺 @danielaus.bsky.social

Hello Frank 😂 👍

aug 12, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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✨𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝✨ @thefrankaccount.bsky.social

Lovely to see you!!!

aug 12, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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Daniel 🇦🇺 @danielaus.bsky.social

You too mate

aug 12, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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✨𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝✨ @thefrankaccount.bsky.social

🍻

aug 12, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Daniel 🇦🇺 @danielaus.bsky.social

🍻 👍

aug 13, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

oh got my Louis XIV and XVI mixed up wishful thinking

jul 31, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social

Get the tumbrils rolling ...

aug 7, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

King Donald even gilded the damn doors 🤦

aug 7, 2025, 4:53 pm • 3 0 • view
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mark smith @gcu-grey-area.bsky.social

Um, the roundels at the top are too big, and overhang the panel they’re stuck to…

aug 7, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

Temu Trump

aug 7, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

I know his other crimes are much worse but this tasteless vandalism of the White House by Donald Trump is obscene.

Before and after photo comparison of how Trump has gilded every single edge of the historic plaster moulding of the walls, doors and ceiling in this White House room (Oval Office?) and added Temu shiny tat additional features.
aug 8, 2025, 6:02 pm • 6 0 • view
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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social

It's all moulded plastic, stuck on with blu-tac. They've got weeks of peeling that lot off when he goes.

aug 8, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social

And it's going to get much worse if he builds this enormous ballroom.

aug 8, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

Meanwhile, outside in the grounds of the White House, Trump has ripped up the historic and charming Rose Garden planted by Jacqueline Kennedy and turned it into a pool-free Mar-a-Lago spa scene. www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Photo of the paved over Rose Garden which is covered with tables and chairs with white and yellow shade of umbrellas which are folded down and look very phallic text: President Donald Trump's redesign of the White House Rose Garden has prompted comparisons to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images View (looking east) towards the pool and spa of the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, February 13, 2017. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images) Eagle-eyed observers have noted that the yellow-and-white-striped umbrellas installed at the Rose Garden are nearly identical to those found at the side of the Mar-a-Lago swimming pool.
aug 8, 2025, 9:01 pm • 4 1 • view
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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social

That is just awful

aug 8, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hen Gymro Heb Wlad @hengymrohebwlad.bsky.social

Probably got sick of the memes.

Image of Trump standing in a garden in front of the White House, shouting at a small boy in a red shirt who's pushing a big lawnmower. Caption is
aug 8, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

btw the Swedish Ivy that used to be on the mantelpiece was a 1961 gift to JFK from Irish ambassador Thomas Kiernan. Ever since it has been a consistent backdrop to some of the most famous White House meetings - until Trump replaced it with his golden golf trophies. Where did it go? @motherjones.com

aug 8, 2025, 9:08 pm • 6 2 • view
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Mercurywoodrose (code name for decades) @mercurywoodrose.bsky.social

Oh, he threw it in the trash you know he threw it in the trash

aug 9, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social

symbolic of what he's done to America

aug 9, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view