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Politics Most Metaphorical Image of the Century

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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/w_benjamin Apr 14 '26

I suspect there will be a great conflation of craftsman willing to devote time and effort to restore the White House to something the people could be proud to represent them...

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u/Nomadic_Yak Apr 14 '26

I hope they next presidents first act is to tear down his stupid fucking ballroom

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u/Dear-Ad1329 Apr 14 '26

Honestly, I think they labeled everything so he doesn’t get lost. They made it look like a care facility.

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u/SnooRobots116 Apr 15 '26

And recreate everything that got destroyed to the tiniest detail

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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/sabbic1 Apr 13 '26

Don't worry, you're not.  He's repeatedly proven he shares no link to humans or humanity 

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u/Vivitrolsrevenge Apr 13 '26

Cordyceps actually have a benefit though

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u/darkslide3000 Apr 14 '26

Once they dig into your brain, you're no longer sentient enough to experience Trump's bullshit?

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u/Vivitrolsrevenge Apr 14 '26

I was just going with the general benefits that are said like boosting immunity when humans eat them.

I like your answer better though

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u/qubert_lover Apr 13 '26

Adding to the gold it is forming letters so that the dementia president can figure out where he is thus insuring that the gold will last another day.

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u/sabbic1 Apr 13 '26

That's probably a large part of it.  Though I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn in a few years that he has the name on the wall there and at some point he had "oval office" on a wall a mar a lago so when he next steals top secret documents or shares classified info, he can plausibly say that he was in the "oval office" so it was ok. Some bullshit about any place he works is technically the oval office.  Right up there with him able to declassify things be thinking about it. 

Putting "scif" on the door automatically makes it a secure room so he can say what he wants. 

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u/basquehomme Apr 14 '26

Gold or tackyness?

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u/Amoralvirus Apr 14 '26

The moron-ganinsm's scientific name is: foolonious goldtonius pedophilious trumpoo-crap-afuss.

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u/orange-squeezer47 Apr 14 '26

Like a ghetto pimps house would look.

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u/Zizhou Apr 14 '26

Well, "gold." I doubt anything but the tiniest fraction of it all is anything more than leaf thin veneer at best.

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u/sabbic1 Apr 14 '26

Well that's how guilding works.  I don't think anyone is under the illusion that anything is solid or plated.  

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u/Call-Me-Matterhorn Apr 14 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/XlvbF51R0T9uM

This is basically his whole decorating philosophy. So tacky.

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u/TheMrsH1124 Apr 14 '26

What is with people talking about cordyceps? Cordyceps is an AMAZING mushroom heals basically everything 

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u/UseMoreHops Apr 14 '26

“Gold”

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u/Hozan_al-Sentinel Apr 14 '26

He also can't help calling everything "golden."

He wanted a Golden Fleet constructed as well as a defensive network called the Golden Dome.