Tacky oval office begildening update: There was one piece on his cluttered mantle that wasn't 100% gold so it was replaced. And he's added a ridiculously ornate new golden fireplace screen. And new golden trophies on either side and new golden frames on the wall. Taking bets on what he adds next.
I've been to the Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Bavaria, often referenced as the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty castle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschw... King Ludwig II, the "Mad King," broke Bavaria building elaborate castles. He was a nutjob as well.
Ludwig’s bling was tasteful and timeless, not tat made in China from plastic and gold paint.
Imma send him a golden dildo and call it "Don".
@helenkennedy.bsky.social I'm betting on a picture of himself in a superhero outfit to replace the portrait of George Washington.
One of him in the style below, I’d imagine, only more buff and in a superhero costume. His choice of Peale’s Washington 1776 portrait for the center (for now) brought it to mind.
If vajazzaling a room was a thing, it would be this.
Every week you think "that's it, there's no more room," and then… This is like that (possibly apocryphal) story of the artist whose drawing of cute little cats got increasingly psychedelic as his schizophrenia progressed. Except I still kind of like the whacked-out cats.
The Halloween store couldn’t come with that much tacky decorations
The gilded Nobel Peace Prize he’ll be given so he doesn’t blow a small Eastern European country up
But that shit is (probably) real. The shit in the Oval is just stickers.
"Totalitarian lavishness." -Churchill
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A throne, of course.
A golden shower?
lmao
None of that crap is 100% gold. Just gold colored. So tacky, so de classé.
It’s vomit making. Even Versailles which had a lot of gold and gilt had a balance. I mean you can buy spray cans of gold paint and that looks like what has happened.
Gross
Staff must have to sneak in during the night and install more crap...
Does anyone think that looks good (besides him?)
I’m going to go with gold foil wallpaper. Followed by carpet.
Someone should send him an obviously dildoish golden "peace prize" to see if he puts it up before someone figures it out
I'm not generally a form committee and do a lot of fundraising and volunteer work kind of gal, but if someone forms a "remove the gold and restore the rose garden" committee, please call me. I have some spare cash and am proficient in excel.
Only thing left is the chair legs. I wonder if he'll spray paint all the chairs, or just the one he sits in.
Those busts are going to be gold within 2 weeks.
Compare it to the first Zelensky meeting when JD berated him for not saying thank you.
I call it: glod.
Truly hideous
have they found the hummels and beanie babies yet?
Plus, who’s hangs paintings up so high? It’s all just deco.
I bet it’s gold
Small men do this...
A bust of himself, if there isn't one in the Oval already.
"Christians are worshipping a golden idol" is the phrasing we should use.
It would be hilarious if he started getting the dressing up box out.
Tacky Term 2: The Begildening
We’re gonna have to rent and fumigate that whole place if we ever get pres cankles outta there
The only thing missing is Liberace furiously masturbating in the corner
He’s going to spray paint his head gold.
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Thank you. I work on them.
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Don't know who the bald bust is... Ike? But it's not gold so another spitoon will end up there.
The gaudy amount of gold is gross
He’s told some staffer that it must be more gold every day or they’re fired. I would bet on it.
It’s the most cluttered, garish decor and inappropriate for the oval!
Foreign leaders have to keep a straight face while they're sitting there.
I’m still pissed about the removal of the ivy plant that was a gift to JFK in 1961 and has been on the mantel for decades. I wonder if it got thrown out.
Same here, I wonder if it is just in another room or with staff, but lots of cuttings have been gifted over the years so if it is the case that it has been thrown away I hope someone will return the favour and donate cuttings it can come back
Yes. I read that article. It was depressing to think that something so special may have been discarded.
Yeah, our country. 👿
Touché.
A model of air force one on the table, compensating for little donnie
Also new: the gold dishes with the caryatids on the sideboards Bets on whether they detail the chairs?
They were originally on the mantle. They were replaced by some other knickknacks. I'm waiting for the busts to be replaced by golden ones.
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gilding Eisenhower would be aces
Perhaps he’ll replace even the black lamps.
So in the later photo, the second from left in the earlier photo is gone and second from right is now in the center. You think maybe some of the first photo’s decor got, I dunno, hurled in a bout of rage because of focus on Epstein? I like to think so.
Why no pictures of the greatest and most popular president ever plastered all over the walls? There must be innumerable Time Man of the Year front pages to frame. No one love Donald more than Donald loves Donald.
Saddam Hussein had a similar fondness for engildening the world around him. I can only assume that no one in the White House has the courage to stand up to Trump. Someone should remind them that sycophancy is never a good look.
I'm not seeing a golden tissue box cover. Maybe he gets one of those off temu; old people love them some decorative tissue box covers.
(I have a weakness for them. They are all over the house. Not gold though.)
My grandparents had them all over the house, and the one they kept in the back window of the car would probably fly through someone's head and THEN through the windshield, it was that scarily sturdy. Did they anchor it? HELL NO. How else were we kids gonna hand Grandma her favorite tissues?
When you get older your nose runs more I think.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that's a ridiculously busy mantle of trophies for a guy who leads the "whining about participation trophies" party...
These two photos should be in the dictionary for the words tacky vs classy.
Perhaps they should offer him nighttime cups of delicious golden nectar to swallow. ⛳👀
Visual relief. Thank you!
The alt text lol
If he was going for the appearance of a funeral urn display, it's a resounding success.
Sometimes not filling a space with stuff is best.
Don’t you just assume that if you could touch it, it would be gold spray-painted styrofoam?
I bet you could knock it off the wall if you look at it wrong
A mound of gold coins on the floor so he can "Smaug" if he feels like it.
Did he return the stolen soccer trophy?
No
A golden dildo in the shape of a miniature Putin, to shove up his ass.
But remember, republican kids: helping the poor is too expensive, so help the silver spooned buffoons.
Looks like Saudi idolization to me.
A solid gold Resolute desk is on order.
The Oval Office needs more cowbell.
Showers
A crown?
There is something about this that reminds me of how my grandma started cutting pictures she liked out of the newspaper and having my aunt take them to the framing shop when her dementia started really setting in. She always loved art and had some very nice pieces, but it got unfocused and weird
He thinks he’s all that, but this is the wallpaper supplier, not silk damask, not handmade
The wallpaper is this, and the company was able to make 96 rolls in hours so it isn’t the top stuff in wallpaper terms, even me, a poor, has some handmade block printed wallpaper Not dissing the US company, but it is hotel standard, not historic house standard Another US pres used it for the bog
