we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
He looks like he's dying.
I’m outraged! I need a new car….desperately…..but I can barely afford to eat. And he’s spending our money on gold trim in the Oval Office, jet planes that should NOT be his to keep and fucking gold ballrooms
Says the pedo, in a chinese made hat.
The American media has been grooming the public since 2016. They made him untouchable. I was just speaking to someone who was mad because he saw Joe eating ice cream “instead of doing his job!”. Fascism, racism, open corruption and bigotry is fine. The US media did that.
I things we thought that were checks on power were actually just following power. media mostly follows power and will follow attention of new power when it comes along (strong opposing parties, Fox News, etc). Someone they consider important making a big stink.
The problem is they don’t think people power is worth attention and comment on its own and if you are still basking in Regan America liberal ideas are on outside until proven otherwise
Offices don't "need" anything. Little, deranged people "NEED" THINGS LIKE GOLD gogas.
And act like tacky Oval Office decorating is just what America needs in this moment. What an accomplishment.
Waste of money!! Looks very cheap
We didn’t hire you to do interior decorating…
Not only that, but it doesn’t cause outrage from the same people who are constantly outraged by “government waste.”
Trump continues to provide proof that America must work on its education system. Good grief!
Well, what they mean by “government waste” is “paying bureaucrats’ salaries.” As a long time public employee that’s always what they mean. We’re painted as lazy people who don’t earn our pay. So now we get zero services and a gold office. Congratulations America!
Yes, they certainly have a backwards view!
I’m sure they think he paid for it all out of his own pocket 🙄
No. A lot of people really hated the woke stuff and Trump gives them the opportunity to abuse the people that led it.
Please get out of my mentions with this crap. I’m not interested in excusing people’s choice to go full fash because it was suggested they be minimally respectful.
In their defense, they are wannabe fash so far. Not full fash until Trump solidifies a dictatorship.
what "woke stuff"
I’m not a fan of Trump or what he is doing at all but one example of a woke thing is the pronouns people started doing. People were just really angry & Trump offered them a conduit for that anger to abuse people that weren’t them. It’s not meant to be logical, it’s just meant to feel good.
It’s like enough people were prepared to overlook the corruption of Trump in order to actually do some things, whatever those things are.
You seem to actually be a pretty big fan of Trump.
Actually, the exact opposite
I think "his own pocket" is where things are going, not coming from.
A maga person told me that recently.
I’m pretty sure they think the checks that went out with his signature were from his personal bank account.
Best Little Whorehouse in DC!
everyone has covid brain damage
And it doesn’t help that many people were dumb and lazy pre-covid
It WAS a beautiful office!! Now it looks like a cheap bordello.
Gaudy trash
"This office badly needed a gawdy, tawdry, ostentatious display of kitsch. No one in history is more crass than I am. I know more about tackiness than probably anyone on the planet."
Look at him hiding his diseased hand.
Tribalism is both simple and confoundingly inexplicable.
I suspect because everyone knows--even his supporters--that he only buys cheap crap and those things were painted gold. He created this environment by being such a liar even when people listen to him they still don't *listen* to him.
The media loves him and would never question him
🤮
all to accomplish a Saddam’s commode aesthetic
Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse right?!? 🙄
It was dirty! He is a sick man.
And he will take our money with him when he leaves,if ever. He won't leave that ugly crap, he'll keep it like his plane.
He's the gaudiest motherfucker to ever live.
I assumed all that gold crap was just plastic appliqué glued to the walls. That would be so Trump-like. White Trash With Our Money.
more's the fool and his gold
Can someone please check on Fort Knox?
It'll be studied for decades, or at least however long universities are allowed to exist
He knows how to manipulate people & the media - he’s done it for decades - dems now are fighting TO use language that makes people flee the party. It’s madness.
He’s gonna get a huge slice of this country to BELIEVE he should remain in office beyond 2028 and the Dems will still be claiming defund the police was a good marketing term. Lunacy.
Wow. He looks like absolute 🐶💩! 🤞
*Fun Fact: one of those "soft skills" that longtime paramedics develop is the ability to quickly recognize a sick patient from across the room. 🚑😬
I attended a serious traffic collision with one of our longtime (legendary) paramedics. As we rolled-up, we saw our patient still in the vehicle. We both simultaneously said, "that guy looks like shit!" He was really "sick." 😬
You'd think that Trump would have more important things going on in his life than touting his tacky gold room, wouldn't you?
This whole fixation on gold trappings and how much it all cost is pretty awful, but the fact is, I never noticed or cared much what the Oval Office looked like when it was occupied by presidents who knew they were only temporary occupants of the People's House.
Can we sue him? Collectively, as a nation? Sue him into absolute poverty such that the Trumps will never recover
They also already made the movie…..
So that's what he did with the gold he stole from Fort Knox!
Pay people to say nonsense is the absolute truth. Repeat ad nauseum. Become President. Gild everything. Kill irony.
If Biden or Obama went for a gold plated office, MAGA heads would be exploding every day on Fox News. Sad to say that one third of America is prepared to give their king anything he wants. They want a monarchy as long as it’s their choice.
he just ran as a Republican.
trump- noun : Def : Trailer trash Synonyms - Cheap Tacky Gaudy Low Rent Boorish Oafish Nouveau riche $1.50 millionaire
Right and now the Ormolu Office looks like a cheap bordello when heads of state/dictators/fascists come to visit
In the alternative, hijack his “I’m spending this and there’s nothing you can do/say about it” except for progressive outcomes. It’s not like the Dems get any credit for economies because the Rs paint them as spenders no matter what
Except it's not real gold. I'm sure we paid someone the cost of real gold to install it however. The grift continues and goes all the way down.
Trump is right-handed. A right-handed person's natural action is to put its right hand on top of its left, not the other way around.
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reported today that Trump is sending letters to the MAGA faithful begging for money, if only they connected the dots.
Out on a limb here, but do you think he’ll take the gold stuff with him? …for his library?
Honestly thought that this particularly ridiculous red clown hat had to have been AI generated. It’s almost as high as Lincoln’s stove pipe hat.
Soooo much spray paint!
He just took money from pediatric cancer research, some funds that would otherwise have gone to USAid, some cuts to Medicaid and spent it on some gold decorations for the Oval Office… No biggie… And, of course, no one questions this piece of sh*t
Millions of Americans are going to lose Healthcare while this demented msn-chold wastes our rax dollars to make the Oval look like a seed brothel! And Republicans say nothing. This is a distopian nightmare.
A huge part of it seems to be "at least he's honest about it" If you accept the premise that all politicians are wasteful and corrupt, then you only really catch them lying or bring hypocritical about it. And shame does the rest of the work But if you're shamelessly wasteful and corrupt...
I think a lot of those items are from the permanent White House collection. Have to be sure they stay when he is run out of there.
Cult of republicans
That "cost" for his Gilded Age Oval may not be what he says but the money for the real thing will certainly be taken.
And can someone please tell me how he got approval to add on a ballroom to the WH? I am mystified that he says he wants it so he gets it? And totally destroy the White House belonging to us.
Uh, the guy's coup attempt included inciting a mob to attack VP Pence, yet he was re-elected. Prior to his 2016 election, we knew of his sex escapades including allegations of rape of a 13 year old. Why would anyone think that the Trump base would balk at blowing coin?
He’s never leaving, no matter what Americans think.
How #2 - liberals don’t understand power. We concentrate on specific ppl instead of looking at the forest and try to gain majority in school board, city council, state legislature. MAGA doesn’t care who the person is as long as they toe the line and can gain them the majority.
How? Bc white people have been simmering with hate for 50 years and voted for GOP to take over Congress and White House. They’d rather this piece of shit waste their money and throw them off Medicaid than be in the same place with black, brown people. And Latinos and Asian voted for this too.
Pretty much anything can be forgiven by the MAGA faithful as long as it triggers the libs.
Stooges like Jake Tapper is how.
He's wasted billions but not on the decor. That's plastic home depot shit w some gold paint.
The real question -- who are they buying all this gold furniture and adornment from -- I'm willing to bet it is a Trump-owned or supported business. Always a grift somewhere.
A true “let them eat cake” moment.
www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/bc...
Look to history. It's all there. It's always the same.
being fully honest: i think it was all the rapes
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He's emptying all the kiddie banks
Tacky, uncouth, tawdry, grotesque, cheesy, garish, vulgar, unrefined, graceless, crude, unrefined
Bunch of sycophant cowards in media
It cost about 75 bucks at hobby lobby/temu.
It’s nothing the media can use to score points against a Democrat.
"Goldenputz."
As he's covering his fucked up hand. Who's running the country?
FOX NEWS
America adulates wealth and celebrity. It preaches freedom while shovelling trillions into wars that kill innocent millions and deaden the hearts of its soldier children. It believes its own lies. Not much to figure out really.
too many people think the king deserves his stupid trinkets.
Yeah. Gold leaf isn’t cheap but guaranteed that he overpaid someone
You know one of his stooges told him it’s real gold and charged him accordingly. Then went to Lowe’s and bought $6 spray paint. Probably sprayed the tchotchkes in the paved rose garden.
And he had the audacity to cut food stamps and health care to the poor, you gutted medical research, he belongs in hell.
He’s confusing needs with wants. He’ll bankrupt this country like it’s one of his casinos. Golfing, gold leaf, ballrooms… party of fiscal responsibility LOL
Tacky cnut.
We just want it not to spread. That’s all.
I don't know, but it all looks like spray paint to me.
Re Oval Office. Yeah, the people's oval office looks really, well really..Las Vegas whorehouse chic.My god, he is so trashy. I can't even imagine what the European leaders must have thought
He could rape women in front of the press and Maga would not mind
“You’re allowed to turn back” ???
Why does it look fake as fxxk then?
Just f$ck
a big part of it is that this guy likes Trump, thinks he’s good for his employer, and wants him to win
That hat is definitely not appropriate for the oval office.
Donny does not remember that he works for the American people.
The depth of dishonor, damage, failure, corruption, criminality & cruelty of POTUS, VP, AG, SS, Speaker & minions has no bottom. They bring shame on their families & our nation. A convicted felon, a lifetime of dishonor, bankruptcies & failed relationships rules the USA, Sad💔#ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸
The media is owned by large corporations that need approval for mergers. That’s most of it
Lies
Is he spending taxpayer dollars? Oval redecoration is usually paid by donation funds.
I wonder if there's any left in Ft Knox
He's a short-term tenant in the Oval Office. You wouldn't hire an AirBnB and redecorate it ...so why should he?
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All the Oval Office hollywood sets have to be redesigned. Who’s gonna pay for THAT??
Solid gold my rosy red ass! Cheap gilt is more like it. Just like everything he does.
They told you all you were the most special country in the world while teaching you that you have to fight each other for scraps, destroying solidarity.
You have to ask what were the heads of countries thinking when he showed them his merch wall? They were too polite to call him an ass to his face!
And it looks … cheap
🤢🤢🤢 No class. Plus the cost to fumigate the place when we are finally rid of him.
There is room for both Thune and Johnson under his desk.
Does it mean nothing to him that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan - all the presidents - would be disgusted with him and what he’s done?
Budget hawks? Any day now. Just remember we can’t afford to feed hungry children school lunch.
Wait, did he actually tell people, "You're allowed to turn back" when he said, "Look at all those paintings." REALLY--he was granting them PERMISSION to turn back to look?
give him six months tops
The interesting thing about the fleecing of American taxpayers is that Trump is in the Epstein files and he’s willing to sacrifice the civilian population of two countries, militarize American cities, and pardon a woman convicted of trafficking children for sex to cover it up.
also, the fact that he now consistently wears a hat that says "i'm always right" in third-person is borderline insane levels of tacky cringe
The only thing will be fantastic is when you leave the White House and take all this crap with you. You redid the oval office desk because Elon Musk son rubbed his boogers in it.
The people who clean the White House take pride in their work. IT WAS NOT DIRTY . The only dirt there is what you brought in!!!’
He thinks that taxes are tithes, the White House is the Vatican, and that he's the bloody Pope.
While he is wasting tax payers' money, everyone else has to suffer. - What an egocentric, maglomaniac, stupid moron!
Fascism isn’t free.
"I don’t think mainstream journalism is filled with conservatives, precisely, but it is with people who would rather have a beer with chris rufo than jamelle bouie" bsky.app/profile/esch... "Rufo is associated with IM-1776. Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street."
Hey, crusty old white guys are people too. I suppose.
Reporters are laying down the job and not reporting.
Sure he is sitting in the Oval Office without a tie , open shirt and wearing a baseball hat with a corporate slogan but neither I or my children ( if I had any) will ever get over President Obama wearing a tan suit. DISGUSTING
Didn't anyone ever teach this low class moron that decent, well-educated people don't wear hats, especially ones with stupid words on them, indoors? What a disgrace to America and to the office in which he sits.
Wearing a ballcap in the Oval Office. Disgrace.
Indeed!
If a Democrat did it, the press would be all relentless calling for accountability and demanding answers.
Liberace’s den
Every square millimeter of Donald J Trump definitely should be spray painted metallic gold. It would be much more effective than that nasty orange paint he uses. Plus, I hear that gold is really popular in Heaven...
ALL ON OUR FUCKING DIME .
I pray the next president tears it all the fuck down. Nothing says USA... like Versaille.
No, Trump needs the excessive and tasteless gold trim to advertise his "power and position". Unfortunately he lacks even a microcosm of insight and is too blind to see that everyone is laughing behind his back. No taste. No class. No soul.
Primitive and tasteless.
That's setting for his RealtyShow!
He’s definitely hiding his right hand….
A media that is almost entirely determined to cement fascism in the US...
It will be interesting to see where he puts the “portrait” of them that Putin sent him, I’m sure it’ll have a high point of place, in a gold frame.
Going to great lengths to cover up his right hand.
Nuts.
Another few hundred million will go for the ballroom. Where did that $ come from? He says donors but that's like Mexico building the wall. Maybe that's what he's doing with all the $ he's getting from Universities? Congress did not allocate it so it's his slush fund, right?
Hope they tear it all down and shove it in his final box when that day comes
Dictator 101 (probably): All dictators need to have a portable and meltable fortune they can easily grab as they are preparing for their flight to Russia.
It is goldpainted, not real gold. Everything about this pedophile FELON is fake
"You can see the way this is looking. Just look at what I did with all your big beautiful taxpayer dollars".
It’s prosperity gospel stuff. Been around forever. Same tacky crap.
And I'm sure Hobby Lobby was happy to sell him their tacky decor.
not only did it cost a shitload, but I bet if the oval office were appraised before and after, it would be worth less now. The fact that his admin has talked nonstop about "waste fraud and abuse," cut SNAP and medicaid, and cut funds for sci research and then jokes about this is a disgrace.
🙋♀️I am outraged!!
While he covers up the rotting flesh on his hand.
I remember it was controversial when Nancy Reagan spent $210,000 on new White House China in 1981.
The oval office looks like a bordello. It's a disgrace!
Can we call the White House Trump's Tacky-Ass Bordello? Please?
The appearsnce of the office would improve 1000 fold if he were removed from it.
To Trump the government's money is for his pleasure and not the benefit of its citizens. His Congress agrees.
Hid his right hand.
We already know. It’s the media. It’s the large corporations. They want more and more money and don’t give a shit how they get it.
Did he steal it from Fort Knox when he visited there?
The mainstream media bent over backwards to normalize him
Looks like a bad whore house.not only the cost to put it up, but the cost to get rid of it.
When he is finally no longer in office, his assets should be frozen and then used to repay the taxpayers. He nor his family should be allowed to profit financially from his grifting of the taxpayers.
100% he is not leaving office
He will not live forever. Heck, he might not live out this term. Not that I'm looking forward to a Vance regime.
Vance is just a careerist and will do whatever best suits his career. Trump will make it to 2028, almost guaranteed. He won’t give up power because if he does he’ll be jailed for all his corruption, as will his family and the stooges around him. It is the classic Dictator dilemma.
Meh. He either dies in office or goes out with a pardon like Nixon/Ford.
He either dies a King or gets impeached and we’ve seen how much appetite Republicans have for impeachment.
No guarantees on that with his poor health.
He’s in good health for his age. His dad lived to 93, his mom to 88. He will live be alive in 2028.
His health isn’t good for any age. I’m older than he is and for right now I’m fortunate to be in good health as are many of my acquaintances. His health both physical & mental, by all appearances, is deteriorating as we are watching.
He has a heart issue but otherwise is fine. Happy to admit I was wrong if he doesn’t make it to 2028
Who knows, he could make it to 2028 and I don’t. If he weren’t so vindictive and cruel, he might enjoy retiring. He could golf, fund real charities and spend time just being comfortable with people. He’s actually missing a great time of life.
He can’t retire because he’ll go to jail
He makes really ch people richer. They own the major media.
It is not difficult. STOP VOTING FOR CORRUPT ASSHOLES!! Stop watching Fox Propaganda! 💩 There...fixed it.
Spray painted BS medallions!
He's turning the Oval Office into a cheesy whorehouse for the powerful.
Delusional Donnie
🎵 People steal, they cheat and lie For wealth and what it will buy But don't they know on the Judgement Day That gold and silver will melt away? … I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave And know that my poor soul was saved Than to live in this world in a HOUSE OF GOLD And deny my God and doom my soul 🎵
"needed it." This is all insane.
The malignant narcissist is to good taste what serial killers are to pacifists.
We'll need to bulldoze the building and start from scratch when his smelly ass is gone ⚰️ #CmonHeartDisease #TrumpsTackyWhitehouse #EpsteinAndTrumpWereBuds
Nancy Reagan spent over $210K on two sets of China in 1981 and people flipped out. It was a recession and inflation was out of control and "America is hurting." It actually wasn't paid for by taxpayers. It was viewed as an indulgence. The idea was the president shouldn't be above regular Americans.
I’m was in junior high and not politically aware and even I knew about that at the time. I also remember when a tan suit at a press conference was deemed unpresidential by certain sectors but this guy wears a baseball cap in the oval and gets a pass.
He takes away insurance and food from children, but needs gaudy gold in the white house. sicking
Cheesy Interior Decorator
Bought in culture of low expectations
Make sure you spend all American money on gold for your “Versailles” while Americans can’t pay their utility and medical bills.
And he calls out Fed Chairman for remodeling at the same time. He’s a hypocrite, but then, we know that.
Hopefully, most of the things he does superficially, can be undone. His larger crimes against humanity cannot be fixed nor forgotten.
It is revolting and tacky, It looks like a cheap whore house with gold plated shit all over it. That saying is true “money does not buy you class”. 🤮🤮
The elitist who warned you about elitist are not accountable
He has no clue. I’ve seen this.
Tasteless and vulgar. Corruption and criminality. Perversity, sadism and cruelty. The GOP and the SCOTUS 6 cosign his every move.
Gold paint over plastic ain't that expensive. Doesn't mean we didn't pay for solid gold, but that ain't solid gold. Lies and lies.
"Corruption Overload" No one knows where to start.
Lots of ppl are okay some extreme shitiness (unconstitutional acts, wasting of taxpayer money, etc.) bc their own extreme shitiness (racism, homophobia, bigotry, etc.) is being allowed and encouraged.
🤩
Nah, it’s probably fools’ gold.
How many Meals on Wheels for hungry, housebound seniors could that tacky decor fund?
Vladimir’s play thing. Clear as day.
All of the garish gold is the style of interior decor sure to impress a Slovenian hooker.
He is a rich asshole and a bully which is a combination US culture adores... No matter what he does folks always think that there must be some wisdom to it as he is a narcissist billionaire
“We’re fiscal conservatives! Until being Nazis felt better.”
My guess is that his fanboys and fangirls assume *HE* (the man famous for stiffing literally everyone and never voluntarily parting with a dollar in his entire life) footed the bill himself.
Because there’s no bar to clear. Democrats are held to a higher standard
The guy who's dressed like he's going to a trailer park wedding says the Oval Office needed cleaning up and gold trim? Okie dokie.