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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLook at what Dear Leader has done to the Oval Office since Biden left:

Looks like Versailles redecorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp, just like his NYC apartment and Mierda-Lardo. He just can't get enough gold. The place will need an aesthetic exorcism as well as a spiritual one when he's out of there - which I hope will be very, very soon.
moonscape
(5,628 posts)Ocelot II
(128,827 posts)he must have demanded that somebody dig around in the attic and find all the gold stuff. Note that the ivy is gone, retired to a greenhouse somewhere.
erronis
(22,482 posts)Expect to see that building gutted when he leaves. His classmates accused him of stealing their athletic/academic awards.
Speaking of which. Has anyone done an inventory of Fort Knox and the other gold reserves? Anyone not in the employ of "gold fingers"?
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)demanded last week, that they be given a personal tour of Fort Knox in the near future.......
Maybe the two of them are planning a heist, and then reporting to the people in the U.S. that WE have all been fooled all these decades thinking there was gold there......and when he and elon toured, there was nothing.....
Conjuay
(2,863 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,480 posts)I doubt they endorse the ecological sound practice of composting.
flvegan
(65,680 posts)TommyT139
(2,134 posts)Is the "guest" chair extra large so it makes Trump look bigger and visually infantalize the foreign dignitary?
I have wondered this since the offensive attack on President Zelenskyy -- the chair seems to be a permanent fixture at this point.
To illustrate, here's a 6-second nostalgia fix:
Meowmee
(9,212 posts)Dont recognize half of those people in the portraits either.
edhopper
(37,016 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,480 posts)with his mind.
Klarkashton
(4,647 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,409 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,459 posts)As noted here, too:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220200223

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et tu
(2,387 posts)Ocelot II
(128,827 posts)et tu
(2,387 posts)electricmonk
(2,015 posts)laugh like that. Must have just been told some more Palestinian kids were blown up.
CharleyDog
(811 posts)and probably his bedroom with his sweaty single bed.
StarryNite
(11,965 posts)underpants
(194,584 posts)spanone
(140,915 posts)Bet those are his golf trophies that he won like nobody's seen before.
What an embarrassment
Hekate
(100,131 posts)BigmanPigman
(54,533 posts)Tacky POS.
UTUSN
(76,698 posts)Re-post:

Obvious, his lifelong craving for acknowledgment, insatiable about wanting what other/exemplary people got from their talent and accomplishment - he craves OBAMA's/GORE's Nobel Prize, HITLER's Time Mag cover, presidency (the persona) of Andy JACKSON.
**** He can't make any *ORIGINAL* thing, so he took over Mar a Lago from Marjorie Meriwether POST, and the KENNEDY Center, and can't compose wonderful music so does the D.J. thing of blaring Nessum Dorma and YMCA and Do You Hear the People Sing?
He's the birds that take over other birds' nests.
***ON EDIT: How it has been noted since 2015 how he appropriates historical slogans that were successful (obviously for other people), such as "America First" (for isolationist, Fascist Charles LINDBERG), even MAGA (used by RAYGUN? ) , and whatever many other catch phrases that his string-pullers can scrounge up for him (since he has zero knowledge of his own). He's basically about *marketing* - getting suckers to buy into his crap.
***ON EDIT: Add another appropriated aspiration: He has a replica of the World Cup on display in his office junk. See Post #10 for a graphic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasitism
.... is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish. The brood parasite manipulates a host, either of the same or of another species, to raise its young as if it were its own, usually using egg mimicry, with eggs that resemble the host's. The strategy involves a form of aggressive mimicry called Kirbyan mimicry. ....
Mafia hypothesis
There is a question as to why the majority of the hosts of brood parasites care for the nestlings of their parasites. Not only do these brood parasites usually differ significantly in size and appearance, but it is also highly probable that they reduce the reproductive success of their hosts. The "mafia hypothesis" proposes that when a brood parasite discovers that its egg has been rejected, it destroys the host's nest and injures or kills the nestlings. The threat of such a response may encourage compliant behavior from the host.[19] Mafia-like behavior occurs in the brown-headed cowbird of North America, and the great spotted cuckoo of Europe. The great spotted cuckoo lays most of its eggs in the nests of the European magpie. It repeatedly visits nests it has parasitised, a precondition for the mafia hypothesis. In experiments, nests from which the parasite's egg has been removed are destroyed by the cuckoo, supporting the hypothesis. An alternative explanation is that the destruction encourages the magpie host to build a new nest, giving the cuckoo another opportunity for parasitism.[19] Similarly, the brown-headed cowbird parasitises the prothonotary warbler. In other experiments, 56% of egg-ejected nests were predated upon, against 6% of non-ejected nests. 85% of parasitized nests rebuilt by hosts were destroyed. Hosts that ejected parasite eggs produced 60% fewer young than those that accepted the cowbird eggs.[20] ....
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CoopersDad
(3,274 posts)TIA
UTUSN
(76,698 posts)The church dude is the MAGAt attempt to diminish and replace FDR. What little I could see in the blur were a square, jowly face with a downcast "determined" look. The ironic part is that, I think I've learned, CHURCHILL was racist and responsible for decisions leading to millions of deaths of brown people via famines, so the bust is "dark".
Thanks, I blush
for your thinking I might know something!
CoopersDad
(3,274 posts)I think Churchill was dickish, not surprised the chump in chief would remove all signs of FDR.
Take care!
MissLilyBart
(140 posts)RainCaster
(13,367 posts)... with a cockroach/termite tent and fumigated after he leaves.
electricmonk
(2,015 posts)While they're still there.
dflprincess
(29,135 posts)as the people in the portraits would have left in disgust.
I did once read that his Trump Tower apartment was done in "dictator chic". It was an article that compared his home to Sadaam Hussein's.
xocetaceans
(4,333 posts)SunSeeker
(57,441 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,130 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)proud patriot
(102,364 posts)my grandma always said with money doesn't necessary come class
JI7
(93,115 posts)LilyBelle
(55 posts)magicarpet
(18,456 posts)NBachers
(19,131 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(31,337 posts)But, not surprising.
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,127 posts)and his taste is still pure garbage
democrank
(12,060 posts)24 karat BS
dai13sy
(570 posts)underpants
(194,584 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,116 posts)The next Democratic president will need to fumigate.
Mr. Evil
(3,434 posts)This isn't Photoshop? He really had this done. The stupifyingly horrific taste that worm has.
I know what we need to finally get rid of him. We need an Aunt Esther!

usonian
(23,289 posts)
AI
Ruby the Liberal
(26,593 posts)I hate to think how much of it he must have on autoship.
LetMyPeopleVote
(174,270 posts)lame54
(39,181 posts)When he leaves they're going with him
Mr. Jinx
(1,392 posts)Another thing he fails at is interior decorating.
FSogol
(47,518 posts)NCgayguy
(255 posts)He thinks all the fake gold will make his orange makeup look like a real tan. I feel sorry for housekeeping, can you imagine the amount of SHOUT they go through to get out the orange makeup stains? Maybe he sleeps on gold sheets too or extra large puppy pads. Just saying.
allegorical oracle
(6,135 posts)The famed office of the president is now not unlike Mar-a-Lago filled with gold, literally from floor to ceiling. Theres an overstuffed gallery wall (each portrait with a gilded frame), a pair of loud side tables featuring gold eagles as the base, and gold decals on the moulding and fireplace.
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In an interview with Laura Ingraham last month, he bragged about his cluttered walls. Its much different, never been like that, he told her. You had some of those paintings in vaults and safes for 100 years!
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He also proudly discussed all his gold with Ingraham, telling her a little secret: Youve never been able to match gold with gold paint, he said, Thats why its gold.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/trump-s-oval-office-is-an-interior-designer-s-nightmare/ar-AA1CxFfG
Moostache
(10,958 posts)He is fake, superficial, transactional and selfish in every interaction and every thought in that shrivelled head atop his slouched shoulders and protruding gut. He is incapable of love, for others and sadest of all himself. He KNOWS he is a fool and a fraud but his life is entirely built of bullshit lies and boasts.
I am happy that I know without a doubt that my meager life and existence is infinitely more fulfilling and satisfying than his. I cherish my family and time with friends, none of whom have to say my name or praise me endlessly for me to garner enjoyment. I don't obsess over money because I have enough to live in relative comfort at a time when too many cannot even reach that level. I have no fear of being feared or worshipped or lampooned or mocked. My mood is independent of a media mention, tweet or perceived slieght.
Donnie? Your dad never loved you, just as you have never loved your own son and he is busy carrying that familiar trait into the 4th and 5th generations. You are the very defintion of failure - a man incapable of real achievement, obsessed with lying to everyone to try to fake the unfakable. You. Are. A. Loser. The one thing you hate is ultimately your defining characteristic. In fact, if you just stopped hurting others it would be hysterically funny... but you won't and it's not as a result.
Suck on reality for another day 2 scoops...no one likes you, no one loves you and when you die (hopefully soon and right now is not too fast) no one will mourn or miss you in truth. You are a complete failure despite the advantages you had and starting off on third base without even contacting the ball at the plate. It was no triple that put you there...it was your unloving, disappointed daddy, buying the team and forcing you into the game as a pinch runner for others who actually DID hit triples.
I think these thoughts and knowing that the reality is these things DO CAUSE YOU PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PAIN... and I am a little LESS depressed about the car wreck you are intentionally causing. One day soon (again not soon enough)...soon.
Ocelot II
(128,827 posts)I could almost feel sorry for him if he weren't so destructive. Like you, I live quietly and obscurely and without a great deal of money - enough to get by on in my old age (I hope, considering), but definitely not enough to decorate my place with gold trinkets - not that I want any. I've got some family left, and a few good friends, and some simple pleasures; as far as I know, nobody hates me and a few people might even love me. I've never needed to be famous or adored or flattered, and I'd much rather be me than him. He has nothing and you and I have everything. He's an empty black hole of need and rage; he's never been happy and he never will be. If he ever experiences anything like joy it's just the satisfaction he gets from hurting or humiliating someone else.
I don't know why people like him exist and I don't know why so many other people follow people like him. But the sooner he's gone the better.
LisaM
(29,465 posts)I saw a bunch of tacky gold stuff in a photo the other day and was curious if it all got plunked in there.
And that blue carpet (which was the same as Clinton and Kennedy had) is so much better than that peach colored one or whatever color you want to call it.
TrollBuster9090
(6,113 posts)...I went around the house with a can of gold spray paint, painting everything gold. Chairs, table, lampshades. I thought it made our house look like a king's palace. (Rather than putting me up for adoption, my parents blamed themselves, for not putting that paint can out of reach!) But at least I had the excuse that I was only three years old. What's this clown's excuse?
Don't forget...he also wants to have a Red Square MILITARY PARADE, like Putin, and Kim get! And he also wants to dress up the 'palace guards' at the White House, like Putin's guards. Yeah, just DRESS THEM UP LIKE NUTCRACKERS. And he wants to repaint Air Force 1 with GOLD TRIM! (And don't worry about those tanks crushing the pavement during the 'blue square' parade. Those are the kinds of things Trump is willing to spend your money on.
Ocelot II
(128,827 posts)the uniforms for the White House security detail. They were savagely ridiculed and were eventually donated to a marching band. https://www.wearethemighty.com/humor/president-nixon-secret-service-uniform/

Trump must have forgotten, or maybe he didn't think those uniforms were fancy enough.
UpInArms
(53,959 posts)🤦🏽♀️
jmowreader
(52,867 posts)Robespierre is just the kinda guy Trump aspires to be - an absolute tyrant who chopped off the heads of his political enemies to get them out of the way. Trump might want to look at what happened to Robespierre before this goes on too long.
misanthrope
(9,347 posts)They look like something you would have seen in imperial Rome or the Third Reich.
Brenda
(1,930 posts)Has really done this. I can't believe this shit is happening.
From Newsweek March 17, 2025:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-2045930
"It's surprising that Trump has moved the fruit baskets to the Oval Office, as they are typically displayed in the State Dining Room during White House tours," Meriam said.
WHY THE EVER LOVING FUCK IS THIS CHUMP NUTS ALLOWED TO SIT IN THAT ROOM EVER???????
Raine
(31,076 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,270 posts)underpants
(194,584 posts)That THING on the wall was installed by his guy from Mar a lago.
I have a fear of jewelry. Thats hideous.
demmiblue
(39,161 posts)Joinfortmill
(19,907 posts)tazcat
(211 posts)VGNonly
(8,323 posts)he's staying in a huge gaudy room. He grumbles something like "Who decorated this cathouse?"
