I’ve been trying to put my finger on Trump’s specific style and interior design aesthetic and it finally clicked that it’s 1990s Televangelist.
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aug 20, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Makes sense: they are all trying to get into Heaven in the worst way possible.
aug 20, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I knew I recognized this from somewhere.
aug 20, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
People keep responding to this saying Tammy Faye looks like a freak but this isn't Tammy Faye Bakker/Messner, it's Jan and Paul Crouch. Tammy Faye was a flawed but generally decent person who was married to a scumbag. The Crouches were both scumbags.
aug 20, 2025, 4:59 pm • 47 0 • view
I knew a guy who worked on that set as a grip.
aug 20, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I pity the fools
aug 20, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Prosperity gospel strikes again?
aug 20, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
it might help him navigate distance & the room
aug 20, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump likes to surround himself in gold because it makes his orange face look more normal
aug 20, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I always figured it was a shittier Versailles / Louis XIV thing, just like Rush Limbaugh was obsessed with. I guess that the TV evangelism aesthetic shares some DNA. www.npr.org/sections/wai...
aug 20, 2025, 4:50 pm • 11 0 • view
Melania making her entrance into a State dinner, if Donald was her stylist 😂
aug 20, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
….so he’s copying other conmen.
aug 20, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
With a dash of 1980s soap opera.
aug 20, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It looks like the palace of dictator. Gaudy and tacky.
aug 20, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
That tracks. He's a grifter, like a televangelist. And he wants people to believe in his divinity and faith, while only providing proof of the opposite --- also like a televangelist.
aug 20, 2025, 4:39 pm • 29 0 • view
Spot on. He’s the same kind of grifter.
aug 20, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Not 'dictator chic'?
aug 20, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Worst episode of Trading Spaces ever.
aug 20, 2025, 4:57 pm • 6 0 • view
Romania (Ceausescu) + Televangelist esthetics + Leach's preference for purposeless acquisition & displays of wealth: Ceausescu + Osteen + Leach ~Trump
aug 20, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Nailed it!
aug 20, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
On point here.
aug 20, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Tacky is the only word I can think of.
aug 20, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! It definitely recalls Paul and Jan Crouch TBN vibes. 😂
aug 20, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Insulting to brothels
aug 20, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Different energies. One of those pics would make my nethers excited with anticipation. The other would make them shrivel with anticipation. I'll let you decide which is which.
aug 23, 2025, 6:02 am • 1 0 • view
For a guy stuck in the 1980s that makes a whole lot of sense.
aug 20, 2025, 4:44 pm • 13 0 • view
I've always thought the aesthetic was like Liberace, but I see the teleevangelist parallel too. vocal.media/beat/donald-...
aug 20, 2025, 4:42 pm • 9 0 • view
Horrid!
aug 20, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It kinda reminds me of the Roman' or Egyptian empires, and we all know what happened to them.
aug 20, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It's also 1970s Queens hausfrau.
aug 20, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Reverend Donnie Jay of the Church of the MAGA Sepulchre: a reading from the Book of Roy Cohn---and the great king said: Bing Bing Bong Bong Bing Bing Bing
aug 20, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It's called Dictator Style. There's a book about it www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
aug 22, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Early American whore house
aug 20, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
In the old neighborhood back in NJ the word would be "gavone".
aug 20, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
It's inspired by his lover Putins office.
aug 20, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
That's the thing: MAGA *is* televangelism. It's far more religious than political, and it uses the exact same tactics. FOX and OAN, etc., are nothing but The PTL Club for politics. Hannity & all these podcasters are Robert Tilton/Jimmy Swaggart/Jim Bakker. It's the same stuff, vamped for politics.
aug 22, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not just the overuse of cheap gold ticky tack. He's got the $400 million Qatar bribe smack dab in the middle of the coffee table. If that's Eisenhower's bust, his descendants should ask him to put it back in storage.
aug 20, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Perfect!
aug 20, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I wonder how much that traces back to Norman Vincent Peal. Fred was a huge Peal fan & got Don into him from a young age. ...that having been said the Trumps have always had a stench of Prosperity Gospel about them, it's just absent the 'gospel' part.
aug 20, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 3:20 am • 1 0 • view
I immediately recognized the Crouch clan. And I don’t feel good about that fact.
aug 21, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
tammy faye's hair is a clairol-frosted weeping willow.
aug 20, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
god, i had forgotten how over the top tammy faye was.
aug 20, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
That is Jan Crouch.
aug 20, 2025, 5:14 pm • 3 0 • view
thank you. a whole new rabbit hole to go down into.
aug 20, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Make sure you wear a mask. The fumes from that hairspray penetrate time and space.
aug 20, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
That's not Tammy Faye (who was a remarkably decent person with a completely broken radar for corrupt men). That’s Jan Crouch, who was a horrible embezzler and abuser of her granddaughters, amongst other flaws. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Cro...
aug 20, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s as though King Midas threw up over everything. It is an attempt to outdo Versailles, the Vatican and after seeing a post a couple of days ago with an added dash of Liberace. Maga’s idea of posh.
aug 20, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
🤮
aug 20, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Money can’t buy class
aug 20, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
AKA: Regional Car Dealership Rococo (RCDR): www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
aug 20, 2025, 4:49 pm • 10 0 • view
📌
aug 20, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He may have a lot of money, but he'll never be "rich".
aug 20, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to dip into TBN occasionally just because it was so weird to me. I still remember goggling at a show where Jan Crouch visited Africa and handed out toys to little girls. Specifically, Barbie dolls. More specifically, white Barbie dolls. I mean, the kids were overjoyed, but...
aug 21, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
Looking her up, I learned two things: one, she's dead now, and two, it's good that she's dead, and I hope she's receiving her eternal judgement. [Content warning: sexual assault.] www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...
aug 21, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Tammy Faye must have on 5 wigs for that kind of volume and height.
aug 20, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Higher the hair, the closer to god.
aug 20, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
👌🏼💋
aug 20, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That cotton candy hair gets me every time.
aug 20, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Instead of Melania wearing the Tammy Faye makeup, it’s Donald.
aug 20, 2025, 4:40 pm • 18 0 • view
Ive been thinking it’s too gauche even for Louis XIV.
aug 20, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Vance's Tammy Faye makeup now makes sense
aug 20, 2025, 4:45 pm • 14 0 • view
🤮🤮
aug 21, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Trump Faye Snaker
aug 20, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Not to mention Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator...
aug 20, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I think Trump’s grifter instincts are televangelist but his interior design preferences are 19th century faux Rococo whorehouse.
aug 20, 2025, 4:46 pm • 7 0 • view
Liberace. His mother was a HUGE fan. Liberace stayed at Trump Tower for awhile.
aug 20, 2025, 4:52 pm • 6 0 • view
nailed it!
aug 20, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I grew up watching these 2 and alllllll that came with them. I was basically in a cult. lol
aug 20, 2025, 4:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Fucking prosperity gospel
aug 20, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Grifter Chique
aug 20, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
So the faux holy rollers are attached to the bling. 🤑 Jim Baker went to school with my father in law. They use to send him notice when HS reunions were happening. They stopped after many years of him not attending. When he ended up in jail they started sending them again. 🤣😂
aug 20, 2025, 4:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Precisely. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
aug 20, 2025, 4:44 pm • 6 1 • view
no wonder golden showers appeal...can't get enough gold
aug 20, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Looks like mustard.
aug 20, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
That hair in the middle pic is crazy Looks like a JoJo Stand
aug 20, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The higher the hair, the closer to God.
aug 20, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
They are just tacktacular
aug 20, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Holy shit, you're spot on. 🤯
aug 20, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 4:40 pm • 5 0 • view
Dense consolidation of 7 deadly sins.
aug 20, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Gilded & Guilty
aug 20, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember that Donny is a direct descendant of a brothel owner. So he’s just following the family traditions of tastelessness and vulgarity.
aug 20, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The televangelist stuff works with his base and many in the general public who totally misread the 4 gospels of the New Testament and their depiction of Jesus. Also, the gospel of wealth is the largest unofficial religion in the US.
aug 20, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm ashamed by this crass desecration.
aug 20, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I was thinking Saddam Hussein's palaces. But no. Saddam had more restraint.
aug 20, 2025, 5:17 pm • 12 1 • view
Well, the Crouches and their network TBN headquarters were based in Orange County, so if you ever watched Arrested Development you may be closer than you think
aug 20, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Dictorial chic
aug 20, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It's like that, only fermented for another 30 years.
aug 20, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view