My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg He has spent his entire life desperately trying to belong to the cultured class, but everything he does screams the opposite. He must hate that even with the title of POTUS, those whose approval he most craves, will always look down on him.
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@gizmonicus @mwyman @Holberg Yes. I read this 2017 piece belatedly last year, and everything about the Trumpian aesthetic suddenly made sense.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/ -
My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
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@Holberg He has spent his entire life desperately trying to belong to the cultured class, but everything he does screams the opposite. He must hate that even with the title of POTUS, those whose approval he most craves, will always look down on him.
@nomdeb I agree. One of the reasons I think he’s just a combination of being profoundly stupid plus a narcissist is that any smart reasonably-well-adjusted man with that much money in the early ‘70s would’ve sought guidance, followed advice and entered society with ease.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
It’s like the cubicles of eBay, minus the tacky gold.
At eBay, everybody had a cubicle. It seemed like you were supposed adorn them with junk bought on … eBay. So people had Star Trek figurines, Simpsons miniatures, Beanie babies, beer bottle collections, unbelievable amounts of … face it … flair.
I bought a Bud Light Spuds Mackenzie dog light and that was the sole piece of flair in my cubicle.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg you can't buy such a bad style. That must have been him.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg I bet there isn’t a drop if gold there, it is all fake
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
Seems something like the #King Meidas counting room.... And we all know what happened to everything Meidas touched.
Same with Sir #TrumpVirus -
"Everything Trump Touches Dies" ✓Like #democracy #justice #Constitution
The biggest piece of "junk", though, is right above the green tie of the creature seated on the right. His "big, beautiful, uh brain", with missing #ExecutiveFunctions like #reasoning and #planning, and deficiencies in #humanity & #morality too.
Junk. (Being kind)
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
I know we always joke that Trump's decorating looks like he went to Michael's and bought a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold, but seriously, did they go to Michael's and buy a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold?
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg he needs medals, all kinds of gimcrack on his person. And maybe we'll all get lucky when he falls in a puddle
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
Third World dictators look at Trump's Oval Office and laugh at the tackiness.
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@gizmonicus @Holberg Trump wants it to resemble the Kremlin, or the palace in St. Petersburg. (He’s not high-class enough to think about Versailles.) And yeah, specifically not meant to be a palace.
@mwyman @gizmonicus @Holberg Can't help but think of this advertisement whenever I think of Trump's gold-leafed excess.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg seems like it would mask pee stains.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg oh please.
Junk shops aren't THAT gaudy.
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I know we always joke that Trump's decorating looks like he went to Michael's and bought a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold, but seriously, did they go to Michael's and buy a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold?
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@Holberg
I have a theory about the suit thing. It's a dare; he dresses ridiculously on purpose, because he knows "you" won't be brave enough to laugh at him because he's so powerful and important.@silvermoon82 I've seen a different take on the suits: that he only wants the most expensive suits, from ~luxury materials~ like silk. So the drape is weird, it wrinkles easily, it's never going to flatter his body type. Wool (or a similar weight fabric) would give him a better silhouette, but that's not ~luxury material~ so he won't have it. It's no more than amateur psychology but I think it holds up.
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I know we always joke that Trump's decorating looks like he went to Michael's and bought a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold, but seriously, did they go to Michael's and buy a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold?
@billyjoebowers @Holberg To be fair, I think you can buy actual gold leaf at Michael's. There's only enough per package to laminate a single Trump steak. But it's real the way this Oval Office isn't.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
I hope someone points-out the handles aren't the same on the two second-nearest the outside. He'll freak out and it'll eat his brain for a few days in TV blatherings.
What a gross facade of grandeur slapped on a rumpled box of crap.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
@Holberg Daily trips to Home Depot for frilly bullshit and gold rattlecans.
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My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
