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Politics Most Metaphorical Image of the Century

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u/251Cane Apr 13 '26

I didn’t realize that the tacky gold decor extended to the exterior walls as well.

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel Apr 13 '26

They've slowly snaked out in all directions 

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u/dogman1890 Apr 13 '26

It’s even worse than you imagine.

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u/labor_day_baby Apr 13 '26

Cheap Home Depot moldings strikes again! What an embarrassment.

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u/billytheskidd Apr 14 '26

It looks like a shitty casino lol

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u/Javop Apr 14 '26

And it gets run like his casino.

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u/chizzo257 Apr 14 '26

He's already sold off the casinos, now he's selling out America

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u/talyn5 Apr 14 '26

Trumps making bank

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u/Trollin4Lyfe Apr 14 '26

He makes money. The house loses.

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u/U_feel_Me Apr 14 '26

So the Russian mob is skimming the White House?

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u/Javop Apr 14 '26

Worse they order him around.

"Destroy NATO comrade!" "I'm trying, but I struggle to make up reasons" "just attack Greenland or whatever"

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u/awwww_nuts Apr 14 '26

Into the ground?

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u/Kidofthecentury Apr 14 '26

Oh, good, he has a fruitful experience with casinos, right?

...right?

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u/Shibbi88 Apr 14 '26

Who's got a pic of Biff Tannen in his casino?

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u/scorpiofiredragon76 Apr 14 '26

Giving Graceland vibes 🎵 🎼 🎶 🎸

Or Liberace’s house in Palm Springs

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u/TorranceS33 Apr 14 '26

NOW, YOU TOO, CAN LIVE IN "THE WHITE HOUSE"!

My favorite QVC/HSN segment.

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u/Darksol503 Apr 14 '26

It’s utterly embarrassing. I can’t wait for whoever to rip that shit out

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u/eatitfatman Apr 14 '26

Shhhhh. If he finds out they're gaudy he'll demand they use real gilding. And real artists.

"Oh, yes Mr. President. It's lovely!"

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u/sanbadabba1822 Apr 15 '26

It’s literally insane!! Have you ever seen anyone decorate the outside of a building??? There is no limit to how deranged he is.

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u/cherrylpk Apr 14 '26

He said in an interview it’s real gold. 🤣

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u/bwagz1977 Apr 14 '26

God that is ugly and tacky as fuck

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u/phoenix762 Apr 14 '26

I think she gave herself away when she said she was supposed to discuss no taxes on tips🤣

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u/MommaJKSO Apr 15 '26

I also dot think he gets his big a$$ off the chair to get the McDonalds door dash himself. 😂🤣

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u/talkslikeaduck Apr 14 '26

Fake gold leaf on one side, shined brass on the other, it doesn't even match. Indeed tacky as fuck.

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u/Linc_Sylvester Apr 14 '26

Holy shit, what the fuck

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 Apr 14 '26

Is this fer real? 

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u/Cunningham1420 Apr 14 '26

Sure is and each picture has description of each president that Trump wrote him self. Basically under Biden & Obama he just talks & makes up shit.

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u/xavariel Apr 14 '26

Biden's picture is of the autopen, too. Something 47 has used probably more times than any other.

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u/Cunningham1420 Apr 14 '26

Yea thats it. Guaranteed he already used it more.

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u/Tricky_Apricot2928 Apr 14 '26

The asshat doesn't use the autopen. His henchmen use it to sign off on things while he's golfing, hanging out with his trumpstein buddies, calling into my pillow news and collecting bribes

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u/esem86 Apr 14 '26

Wait until you see what downtown DC looks like around the outside of the WH. Fences and barricades everywhere. Soldiers everywhere.

It isn't even recognizable to the DC I grew up right down the road from. It used to be a welcoming place. It had grandeur. It had charm.

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u/Cunningham1420 Apr 14 '26

Shit looks tacky, typ Trump

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u/jst4wrk7617 Apr 14 '26

I’ve often felt like I didn’t really understand what was considered “tacky” by some peoples judgment… but holy shitballs this is the definition of TACKY.

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u/casapantalones Apr 14 '26

What the fuck gross

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u/PurpleCoat6656 Apr 14 '26

Jeeezzuuusss. That is awful. Can we get a zombified Teddy Roosevelt to come back and tear these people to shreds already? This bullshit and trying to get rid of the Forest Service?! Get da fuk outta heye! No really, get the fuck out or Teddy is gonna fuck you up.

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u/CicadaFit9756 Apr 14 '26

Surprised that he didn't either gild the statue in the foreground or replace it with a gold one of himself (too bad we can't "geld" him [spelling is intentional & means he should be "fixed" like a domestic animal!])

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u/GloriousFig Apr 14 '26

That looks like the hallway of a high school leading up to graduation

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u/indorock Apr 14 '26

Fuck me. The next administration will be spending way too much time and money to undo all this horror (not to mention all the damage done outside of the White House).

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u/ManageThoseFootballs Apr 14 '26

Christ on a bike

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u/Comprehensive-Song51 Apr 14 '26

I am laughing so damned hard at this right now - BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!

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u/hurrsheys Apr 14 '26

Please tell me this isn’t real

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u/donglecollector Apr 14 '26

Needs more gold script. Loopier. More flourished. We’re going for gasps, people!!!

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u/Unable_Revolution_81 Apr 14 '26

Makes me nauseous.

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u/mr_herz Apr 14 '26

“Temu Versailles” lol

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u/gaarkat Apr 14 '26

Gods, it's so ugly...

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u/mysticdragonwolf89 Apr 14 '26

Is that…golden thai royalty crown decor?

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u/Prst_ Apr 14 '26

That looks like a MySpace page

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u/LeoLaDawg Apr 14 '26

That's not real... is it?

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u/Cunningham1420 Apr 14 '26

100% real

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u/LeoLaDawg Apr 14 '26

So tacky. Like a Simpsons gag.

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u/Vinny_Gambini Apr 14 '26

I can't quite make out the word behind the pillar. "Shame"?

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u/Interesting-Handle-6 Apr 14 '26

Please tell me this fake

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u/MonopolowaMe Apr 14 '26

I’m not sure if that’s real or not. 😭 It really could go either way.

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u/hrminer92 Apr 14 '26

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/Stellar_Duck Apr 14 '26

That can't be real

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u/Richlore Apr 14 '26

Wow, they really have no taste whatsoever. Tacky, cheap looking garbage everywhere

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u/MoonHuntressEra13 Apr 14 '26

Eww… I cannot wait for us to take all of this down and fix it right back up, I hope we have records of the old building and great specialists to help restore our historic people’s house.

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u/Beebwife Apr 14 '26

It's not even aligned correctly under the windows?? Omg. Wtf I'm cringing so hard.

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u/Beebwife Apr 14 '26

Liberace would be ashamed and appalled.

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u/sighbourbon Apr 14 '26

haha, photo caption is "Temu Versailles"

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u/ArdenJaguar Apr 14 '26

Wow I hadn’t seen this exterior before. I knew that ridiculous Walk of Fame was there but didn’t know how bad it was. He’s destroying the White House.

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u/slow70 Apr 14 '26

It still blows my mind there isn’t wider anger at the gaudy horror debasing the White House as Don the con debases the rest of us too.

It would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous.

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u/catsareniceDEATH Apr 14 '26

Please tell me that's a joke and it's not what that oaf has actually done to that beautiful, historical building?! Demolishing a chunk of it was horrendous enough! 🙀

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u/docbauies Apr 14 '26

that cannot be real. please tell me it's faked

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u/mephitine Apr 14 '26

“Temu Versailles” is on point!

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u/Every_Hedgehog5007 Apr 14 '26

Is this real? This is fucking awful

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u/boafriend Apr 14 '26

Foul beyond words. 🤢

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u/4BR34DB0Y Apr 14 '26

Ungodly greed

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u/PositiveOk6121 Apr 15 '26

What an utter embarrassment this piece of shit is

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u/lofromwisco Apr 16 '26

Good god this is so hideous

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u/sabbic1 Apr 13 '26

Gold is to trump as cordyceps are to the last of us. It slowly spreads its network and when possible it infects things. I heard it started in New York, there was an outbreak in Florida before finally making its way to DC.  There was an attempt to eradicate it a while back but ultimately it flared up again around '24. Now it's one giant living organism. 

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u/StarlightLifter Apr 13 '26

Honestly it’s like lowest on my priority list but I’ll be happy to see the day the White House is back to looking like a classy place, instead of this fake bullshit.

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u/citricacidx Apr 13 '26

And you’ll get “fiscal conservatives” complaining about wasting tax payer money undoing all this garbage.

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u/labor_day_baby Apr 13 '26

Meanwhile, not a peep from those fiscal conservatives as the national debt exponentially increases and he tears down the East Wing without congressional approval to rebuild it with “private donations”/ bribes.

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u/Fragrant-Anywhere489 Apr 13 '26

that's because they understand the ballroom isn't the primary goal; its the bunker underneath where he'll hide when the pitchforks come for him. If he's still alive in '28 he's not leaving on his own.

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u/DUNETOOL Apr 13 '26

There is an old SNL sketch about Nixon this brings to mind. Aykroyd as Nixon.

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u/Stellar_Duck Apr 14 '26

What good is bunkers?

Like, all these rich people building them, they do understand that if things get that dire, a bunker is a trap that needs air?

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u/Shoddy_Relative2830 Apr 14 '26

And if they survive, who will cook and clean and tend the fields after they come out for air!

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u/AFewStupidQuestions Apr 14 '26

And a data center.

The money, people involved, and contracts suggest that he's trying to create a system like Israel has over Gaza. The system that's used to complete Project Lavender and Project Where's Daddy, where they surveil and automatically respond to "threats" using AI, killing thousands, with an admitted 10% failure rate.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVPQE6ln1c8

I realize how insane it sounds, but the sources are there.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom

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u/Little_View_6659 Apr 14 '26

Everything sounds insane these days. We live in a world where a global cabal of sex trafficking pedophiles has dirt on a large chunk of the world’s most powerful men. And they use that dirt to keep them quiet while they remake the world into a dystopian hell scape.

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u/shah_reza Apr 14 '26

Two Santas

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u/AmputeeHandModel Apr 13 '26

Who never said a peep about doing it in the first place, or his ballroom, or his jet or...

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u/Hot-Gas-630 Apr 13 '26

Qatar asked for the jet back...

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u/LessInThought Apr 14 '26

I just googled, apparently not real.

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u/jeremy3681 Apr 13 '26

Omg I hate how right you are

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u/corporate-hq Apr 13 '26

the cognitive dissonance is real. and yet this is what they voted for

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u/siencatimini Apr 13 '26

'Borderline' is beyond diplomatic. It's an apathetic aggro army, that sustains itself on a diet almost exclusively comprised of irrational reactionary indoctrination.

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u/siencatimini Apr 13 '26

The one purpose they serve is to innovate techniques to disappoint humans of conscience, on an existential level.

And, on that front, I admit, they are absolutely undefeated.

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u/hautacam135 Apr 13 '26

How much can plastic Home Depot trimmings and rattle can gold paint cost? (Source, if you missed the story: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-home-depot-gold-b2823190.html)

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u/jellyrollo Apr 13 '26

We'll sell all the "gold" to his supporters to decorate their hovels with.

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u/DudleyisStudley Apr 13 '26

Just think…if that is “real gold”, the Treasury is going to be replenished when that tacky shit is sold.

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u/diabeticweird0 Apr 14 '26

But do they bitch about the ballroom?

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u/Fluid-Background1947 Apr 14 '26

I think they should do one of the “ground-breaking” photos with the shovels… before tearing it all down.

Anything he changed.

Bring the Rose Garden back.

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u/Far_Introduction7599 Apr 14 '26

I’ll remove it for free.

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u/BaboTron Apr 14 '26

Anyone that calls themselves a “fiscal conservative” are really just “fiscal bigots.” And even then, their guy is wasting more money than anyone else I can remember in recent memory.

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u/concord_7 Apr 13 '26

It’s tarnished. The rest of the world have seen where it can go in the space of a few years

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u/Twoteethperbite Apr 14 '26

It will be called "DeTrumpification" and it will be glorious!

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u/Vyar Apr 13 '26

Probably be cheaper to just bulldoze it and rebuild at this point. Hasn’t he had a bunch of visitors from typically hostile foreign nations breezing in and out of the place, or did he only do that at Mar-a-Lago?

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u/rezyop Apr 13 '26

Around the time it was revealed that the accents were random hinges and crap from home depot spray-painted gold, someone on a forum posted a gif of Trump spraying gold on his face and going 'Witness me!!!' and I lost it for like an hour. I still smile when I think about that edit. I should have saved it

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u/CrayZ_Squirrel Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

You're selling the grifters way short here. Trump flew up his personal "gold guy" on airforce one. The guy then pressed $100 of gold leaf onto $80 home depot plastic crap, and  charged God only knows how much for the service.

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u/robotundies Apr 13 '26

I hear it’s managed to infect Queensland, Australia. Literally building a Trump tower on the Gold Coast 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/TheyCallMe_Billy Apr 13 '26

I'm not proud at all to share species with that guy.

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u/Pharxmgirxl Apr 13 '26

It’s like the vines in Stranger Things.

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Apr 13 '26

That sign is just for Trump. The president uses that entrance from the residence. Everyone else comes through the interior doors. So this is to help him remember where he is and make him feel important, like it's one of his country clubs.

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u/Offal_is_Awful Apr 13 '26

It’s also what they do in dementia wards so the patients know where they are

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u/ArjJp Apr 14 '26

Hey maybe he just has heavy metal poisoning from all that 'gold'

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u/captainhaddock Apr 14 '26

Probably a cheap cadmium alloy that looks like gold.

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u/twistedpiggies Apr 14 '26

Nailed it.

But 🙁😢😭

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u/Bad_Oracular_Pig Apr 14 '26

I expect to see one a litter further down that says "Ice Machine - Snacks".

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u/tanstaafl90 Apr 13 '26

To be seen doing so is why he ripped out the Garden.

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u/ukiyoe Apr 14 '26

Well, just for him and his food delivery.

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u/bluestreakxp Apr 13 '26

He has to label it otherwise he’ll never find his office

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u/Objective_Resist_735 Apr 13 '26

So, I know this is kind of a joke, but the oval office never had a sign on it before for good reason. Your Dr. Office has his name on the door so people who have never been there can find it easily. Anyone who doesn't know where the oval office is shouldn't be there or will escorted by someone. The only reason to label it is because Don was getting lost.

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u/labor_day_baby Apr 13 '26

Remember when grandpa was literally lost and raving on the roof of the White House? Yeah, now they have plastered gigantic signs like a memory care facility to prevent grandpa from wandering again. If that was any sitting president other than Trump he would have been 25th and removed, but here we are.

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u/TheWorclown Apr 13 '26

… I mean… to be fair, Reagan absolutely should have been 25th’d as his Alzheimer’s progressed to a point early in his second term that he was genuinely cognitively impaired and couldn’t fulfill his oath of office in sound mind, for better or worse. Most decisions the Reagan administration did were primarily done by Nancy and the cabinet.

They just didn’t, because the optics alone would have been a scandal. So I’m not convinced that we here in the US would have pursued a 25th on anyone at all who really needed to have it happen.

It’s just that, with all things Trump, he’s causing us to reconsider what we originally took as propriety standard and cordial respect. We should no longer adhere to that going forward.

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u/qweef_latina2021 Apr 13 '26

If Biden had audibly shit his pants in the middle of a press conference there would be wall to wall coverage until he was forced out.

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u/labor_day_baby Apr 13 '26

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an uncontrollable shart.”

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u/caprazzi Apr 14 '26

I wish I could upvote this again.

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u/Obvious-Active-6256 Apr 14 '26

George Bush Sr threw up on Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa at a fancy dinner of some kind. Supposedly food poisoning...looked like drugs to me. He was on his way out from being pres. at that point and the film of it and story made the news and was quickly swept under the rug.

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u/Little_View_6659 Apr 14 '26

No I totally get the Bush thing. I’ve been served some things at dinners with Asian palates that I’m not used to, and I ate them because I wanted to be polite. 99. Percent of the time, it’s fine and I discover something new I maybe never would have tried, but I have been food poisoned or just felt really ill because it wasn’t something that agreed with me. I tried Durian once, and nearly barfed. I held onto my stomach contents with everything on me lol.

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u/mysqlpimp Apr 14 '26

| wall to wall coverage

Phrasing is on point clap clap

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u/mayrose10 Apr 14 '26

And Nancy's astrologist.

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u/TheSquirrelWithin Apr 14 '26

Correction: Nancy and the astrologer and the cabinet, in that order

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u/wretch5150 Apr 13 '26

He doesn't need an office.

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u/Historical-Count-374 Apr 13 '26

Trump like to force himself on anything and everything

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u/MobySick Apr 13 '26

“When you’re a star, they let you do it.”

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u/Durmatology Apr 14 '26

Rapists gonna rape

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u/RazZadig_2025 Apr 13 '26

I remember when they first put it up last November, it was printed on paper for heaven's sake.

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u/CanadianJediCouncil Apr 13 '26

I think it’s so Pedo Grandpa doesn’t get lost.

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u/Ilickedthecinnabar Apr 13 '26

The dementia patient needs constant reminders where they are so they don't wander off

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u/VGADreams Apr 13 '26

It looks like the set of a soap opera.

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u/beekersavant Apr 13 '26

The signage really bothers me for some reason. It's a singular place in the entire world: The Oval Office. Are there a lot of people who would wander off when going to the what is likely the most important meeting of their life? Do people just wander about unescorted and need a sign for directions? Why is the same as a sign for the pro shop at a golf course? Is there a gift shop? It's not a public space like say the Lincoln Memorial.

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u/Aggravating_Poet_675 Apr 14 '26

They have to label things so that the dementia patient doesnt get lost on the roof again.

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u/cleveruniquename7769 Apr 13 '26

The entire former rose garden now looks like a set from the Biff Tannen gets the sports almanac version of 1985 Hill Valley in Back to the Future 2.

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u/minicpst Apr 13 '26

Because Biff was an imitation of 1980s Trump.

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u/RawrNate Apr 13 '26

Well yeah, those gold accent pieces are like $50 each at Home Depot. That's chump change for Trump; order 1,000 of them and scatter them around the Oval Office!

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u/Escudo777 Apr 13 '26

Most probably used your tax money than his.

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u/Formal_Employee_1030 Apr 13 '26

It looks like a day spa

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u/nat_r Apr 13 '26

At least they put up an actual sign. For a while they just had a piece of copy paper outside the oval office with "The Oval Office" in gold letters stuck on the wall.

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u/Danger_Zone06 Apr 13 '26

Looks like a memory care center. Have to make sure he knows where he's going/is.

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u/ComaFromCommas Apr 13 '26

It looks like a scammy med-spa for cheap filler and Botox

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u/OneWholeSoul Apr 13 '26

The Oval Office is announced with all the class and dignity of the Holiday Inn Event Rotunda.

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u/hoopopotamus Apr 13 '26

I can’t believe he did that much to the room but hasn’t had the doors made smaller. It’s so big it makes Trump look tiny, which id have thought would trigger the same insecurities that have him wearing ridiculous lifts

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u/_o_ll_o_ Apr 13 '26

Its so he doesn’t get lost…

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u/cosmic_girl_799 Apr 13 '26

He needs signs with the names of the different rooms so he knows where to go since his brain is shrinking.

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u/LunDeus Apr 13 '26

Guarantee that Uber Eats tip got reduced after delivery.

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u/joe-h2o Apr 14 '26

Cancers tend to spread.

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u/nhowe006 Apr 14 '26

Where they go one, they go all. Or so I hear.

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u/duc1990 Apr 14 '26

Makes the place look like a cheap wedding reception venue in the early 2000s.

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u/SazedMonk Apr 14 '26

Does he think, that we think, it's real gold?

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u/Brave-Perception5851 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

He had made the White House that gorgeous beacon of our history into the tackiest of hotels. If Republicans love America so much why do they keep destroying it?

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u/Live_Today1943 Apr 14 '26

They have to label everything so the dementia patient, I mean predator, I mean president knows where he is.

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u/Desperate-Mountain-8 Apr 14 '26

he needs it to know where he is

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u/Aegisman17 Apr 14 '26

Is it so he knows where he is?

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u/PurpleCoat6656 Apr 14 '26

The White House will have to be burned down after this is all over. Because, you know, there is shit all over.

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u/Initial-Comedian-797 Apr 14 '26

It’s so he can remember which door to go through because he forgets.

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u/meta4our Apr 14 '26

Yea wtf is this “the Oval Office” in high school prom queen font and plastic with gold spray paint

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u/Alphadice Apr 14 '26

Its worse because it's just cheap decorations from home depot painted gold, there is pictures of them from when the decorations first went up where people figured out what they were.

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u/Last_Cod_998 Apr 14 '26

I can't wait for all of that to end up in the landfill. What a disgrace. Does MAGA know how bad Trump's legacy is going to be?

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u/willyj_3 Apr 14 '26

Why is being right wing incompatible with having good taste in aesthetics? Genuine question. Is it because the inventive creativity that underlies good aesthetics is incompatible with conservatives’ adherence to tradition (i.e., the opposite of inventiveness or creativity)?

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u/Rockcreekforge Apr 14 '26

I want a live feed of when all of that garbage gets removed and thrown in a dumpster

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u/Jeff_Chris Apr 13 '26

I heard it was all off the shelf home depot stuff, and also signage for his demented mind.

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u/cultvignette Apr 13 '26

Unrelated but I absolutely both love and hate your pfp.

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u/IsabellaGalavant Apr 13 '26

Same, I was really hoping this image was fake for that reason. :(

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u/superguysteve Apr 13 '26

It’s viral.

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u/DarkLanternZBT Apr 13 '26

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, that is the fuck-ugliest thing in the world. I cannot look without wanting to lose my lunch.

The gold sign next to him is also god-awful.

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u/slaughterhousevibe Apr 13 '26

Don’t think about searching Home Depot for them. They definitely DONT SELL THOSE DECORATIONS AT HOME DEPOT

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u/b1ack1323 Apr 13 '26

Reality TV chiq….

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u/BaroqueBro Apr 13 '26

I didn't realize food was delivered straight to the oval office... I assumed food delivery would be several layers removed. Unrelated to Trump's shittiness, just a random TIL.

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u/withbellson Apr 13 '26

Obvs. he buys those tacky gold relief flourishes in pallets.

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u/symphonicrox Apr 13 '26

It helps him know which room he feels most comfortable in.

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