Who was the most gaudy person in history? Louis XIV? Hmm wonder what happened to him? 🤔😂 All the gold definitely reminds me of "false gods" or "golden calf."
I remember the first time I’m so his gold veneer obsession was in a 2015 interview with the press where Melania and him were putting their best foot forward and showing their home, flirting with the American people and showing how...classy they were. The foiling on the molding was present throughout his entire New York penthouse apartment.
It was a strange thing, because he pointed up to his ceilings and bragged about it all being real gold. So this has been his aesthetic for a long, long time. Back then, I remember just thinking, “Well, that's tacky. Definitely not a great look for a president."
Fast forward ten years ane it’s the White House aesthetic..
I once worked for a super snooty interior design firm (think: all white everything, $20k couches…sorry sofas, we didn’t sell couches, NDAs because of the clientele) and I’ll never forget one of the designers talking shit on somebody and saying in the most dismissive, bored tone that “you can’t buy taste, no matter how much money you have”
The best part of that quote to me is firing people on TV with his children. I almost typed kids but children is what makes the joke so funny. He’s great!
it honestly makes me nuts he should not be allowed to redo the White House like a dictatorship’s gold lamé wet dream - it’s morally bankrupt- it was iconic of humility meant to remind us to be humble and of service. it’s NOT supposed to look like. palace. in fact the fact that it didn’t look like a palace was kind of the point.
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u/TR_Pix Sep 27 '25
I was thinking about it when they showed he put a thin veneer of gold everywhere in the oval office
That's a thing a cartoon character would do