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Ocelot II

(128,834 posts)
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 07:48 PM Apr 2025

Look 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.
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Look at what Dear Leader has done to the Oval Office since Biden left: (Original Post) Ocelot II Apr 2025 OP
His fake-win golf trophies? moonscape Apr 2025 #1
Those tchotchkes actually do belong to the White House; Ocelot II Apr 2025 #2
What's that quaint phrase you use? "Belong to the White House"? erronis Apr 2025 #9
Trump and Musk DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #24
I believe the ivy just wilted and died as he 'fragranced' past. Conjuay Apr 2025 #52
Or the trash. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2025 #67
He figures he's never leaving, so why not. n/t flvegan Apr 2025 #3
Chair question TommyT139 Apr 2025 #4
Lol what are those trophies? Meowmee Apr 2025 #5
Stuff he is going to steal edhopper Apr 2025 #6
He can't steal it. He's already reclassified it as his Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2025 #68
Oh for JFC that bastard. Klarkashton Apr 2025 #7
What? No gold toilet? Wicked Blue Apr 2025 #8
Yeppers. madamesilverspurs Apr 2025 #10
i see they kept the couch nt et tu Apr 2025 #11
Nobody's gonna want it after Vance is done with it. Ocelot II Apr 2025 #13
2 many memories lol nt et tu Apr 2025 #27
Never seen him electricmonk Apr 2025 #42
Trump ordered every gold covered anything to be delivered to the Oval Office CharleyDog Apr 2025 #45
Gaudy StarryNite Apr 2025 #12
That's the word. ✅ underpants Apr 2025 #54
Is that the Las Vegas Lounge in the WH? spanone Apr 2025 #14
Tacky. Dictator Chic. Gross. Hekate Apr 2025 #15
Is this a surprise to anyone? BigmanPigman Apr 2025 #16
"Brood Parisitism" - birds stealing other birds' nests - even wants a World Cup UTUSN Apr 2025 #17
There's a dark bust in the photo on the table, any idea who that is? CoopersDad Apr 2025 #22
I blew it up as much as possible & it's blurred. My guess: CHURCHILL, which is ironic. UTUSN Apr 2025 #33
Thank you!!11!! CoopersDad Apr 2025 #47
Winston Churchill MissLilyBart Apr 2025 #35
The White House should be covered... RainCaster Apr 2025 #18
It would be more effective electricmonk Apr 2025 #43
If this was Hogwarts all the frames would be empty dflprincess Apr 2025 #19
Where is his velvet Elvis? n/t xocetaceans Apr 2025 #20
Barf. SunSeeker Apr 2025 #21
Fool's gold n/t Grim Chieftain Apr 2025 #23
"...very, very soon..." The most important words in the post! dchill Apr 2025 #25
Tacky ... proud patriot Apr 2025 #26
Fucking hideous JI7 Apr 2025 #28
Trashy tastes from a trashy person LilyBelle Apr 2025 #29
5 metric tones of sage to burn after djt vacates the White House premises.. magicarpet Apr 2025 #30
They forgot to photograph the Malignia and Vanky lap dances. NBachers Apr 2025 #31
Gaudy as fuck. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2025 #32
His whole life designed by a credit card and debt and fraud RANDYWILDMAN Apr 2025 #34
The jester must be just out of camera range democrank Apr 2025 #36
The only taste that moron has is in his mouth. AWFUL!! dai13sy Apr 2025 #37
I'm keeping that saying. 👍 underpants Apr 2025 #55
Jed Clampett and his clan had more class. Just tacky and trashy from a tacky and trashy person tulipsandroses Apr 2025 #38
Un-fucking-believable. Mr. Evil Apr 2025 #39
Looks OK. usonian Apr 2025 #40
Maybe Krylon stock is recession proof Ruby the Liberal Apr 2025 #41
trump has no taste at all LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #44
Get a good look cause... lame54 Apr 2025 #46
An exercise in bad taste. Mr. Jinx Apr 2025 #48
Tacky-fication! FSogol Apr 2025 #49
It's so obvious NCgayguy Apr 2025 #50
A funny bit as he showed off his new decor to Laura Ingraham... allegorical oracle Apr 2025 #51
He is the essence of a failure. In every imaginable metric. Moostache Apr 2025 #53
He really is a sorry specimen, isn't he? Ocelot II Apr 2025 #58
Good grief. Funny, I was just wondering about that today. LisaM Apr 2025 #56
Like all children, he's impressed by glittery objects. My older brother likes to remind me that, when I was 3 years old TrollBuster9090 Apr 2025 #57
If you're as old as me you might remember when Nixon tried to redesign Ocelot II Apr 2025 #62
Omg UpInArms Apr 2025 #59
There's a picture of Maximilien Robespierre in there somewhere, right? jmowreader Apr 2025 #60
What caught my eye are those godawful tables with the eagles misanthrope Apr 2025 #61
I was ready to say FAKE NEWS but DELUSIONAL FUCK Brenda Apr 2025 #63
Gaudy and cheap looking. 🤢 nt Raine Apr 2025 #64
Could the Oval Office be uglier? LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #65
If seen the second pic but wasn't aware of the contrast underpants Apr 2025 #66
Don't forget about his mug shot just outside the door. demmiblue Apr 2025 #69
Everything gold like Midas. Joinfortmill Apr 2025 #70
Demolish the place when it's finally over!!! tazcat Apr 2025 #71
There's a scene in Patton, VGNonly Apr 2025 #72

Ocelot II

(128,834 posts)
2. Those tchotchkes actually do belong to the White House;
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 07:55 PM
Apr 2025

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

(22,486 posts)
9. What's that quaint phrase you use? "Belong to the White House"?
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:41 PM
Apr 2025

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)
24. Trump and Musk
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:16 PM
Apr 2025

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.....

TommyT139

(2,134 posts)
4. Chair question
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 07:57 PM
Apr 2025

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)
5. Lol what are those trophies?
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:02 PM
Apr 2025

Don’t recognize half of those people in the portraits either.

electricmonk

(2,015 posts)
42. Never seen him
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 11:33 PM
Apr 2025

laugh like that. Must have just been told some more Palestinian kids were blown up.

CharleyDog

(811 posts)
45. Trump ordered every gold covered anything to be delivered to the Oval Office
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 12:30 AM
Apr 2025

and probably his bedroom with his sweaty single bed.

spanone

(140,917 posts)
14. Is that the Las Vegas Lounge in the WH?
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:57 PM
Apr 2025

Bet those are his golf trophies that he won like nobody's seen before.

What an embarrassment

UTUSN

(76,700 posts)
17. "Brood Parisitism" - birds stealing other birds' nests - even wants a World Cup
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:04 PM
Apr 2025

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.

***********QUOTE*********

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasitism

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] ....

******UNQUOTE*********


UTUSN

(76,700 posts)
33. I blew it up as much as possible & it's blurred. My guess: CHURCHILL, which is ironic.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:43 PM
Apr 2025

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)
47. Thank you!!11!!
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:21 AM
Apr 2025


I think Churchill was dickish, not surprised the chump in chief would remove all signs of FDR.

Take care!

RainCaster

(13,367 posts)
18. The White House should be covered...
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:05 PM
Apr 2025

... with a cockroach/termite tent and fumigated after he leaves.

dflprincess

(29,135 posts)
19. If this was Hogwarts all the frames would be empty
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:07 PM
Apr 2025

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.

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,127 posts)
34. His whole life designed by a credit card and debt and fraud
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:48 PM
Apr 2025

and his taste is still pure garbage

tulipsandroses

(8,116 posts)
38. Jed Clampett and his clan had more class. Just tacky and trashy from a tacky and trashy person
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 09:57 PM
Apr 2025

The next Democratic president will need to fumigate.

Mr. Evil

(3,434 posts)
39. Un-fucking-believable.
Mon Apr 7, 2025, 10:14 PM
Apr 2025

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!

NCgayguy

(255 posts)
50. It's so obvious
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 04:59 PM
Apr 2025

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

(6,136 posts)
51. A funny bit as he showed off his new decor to Laura Ingraham...
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:05 PM
Apr 2025

The famed office of the president is now — not unlike Mar-a-Lago — filled with gold, literally from floor to ceiling. There’s 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.

snip

In an interview with Laura Ingraham last month, he bragged about his cluttered walls. “It’s much different, never been like that,” he told her. “You had some of those paintings in vaults and safes for 100 years!”

snip

He also proudly discussed all his gold with Ingraham, telling her “a little secret”: “You’ve never been able to match gold with gold paint,” he said, “That’s why it’s 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)
53. He is the essence of a failure. In every imaginable metric.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:13 PM
Apr 2025

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

(128,834 posts)
58. He really is a sorry specimen, isn't he?
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:32 PM
Apr 2025

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)
56. Good grief. Funny, I was just wondering about that today.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:22 PM
Apr 2025

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)
57. Like all children, he's impressed by glittery objects. My older brother likes to remind me that, when I was 3 years old
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:29 PM
Apr 2025

...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

(128,834 posts)
62. If you're as old as me you might remember when Nixon tried to redesign
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:39 PM
Apr 2025

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.

jmowreader

(52,869 posts)
60. There's a picture of Maximilien Robespierre in there somewhere, right?
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:34 PM
Apr 2025

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)
61. What caught my eye are those godawful tables with the eagles
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:36 PM
Apr 2025

They look like something you would have seen in imperial Rome or the Third Reich.

Brenda

(1,930 posts)
63. I was ready to say FAKE NEWS but DELUSIONAL FUCK
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:47 PM
Apr 2025

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

And while it is not uncommon for a new president to redecorate the Oval, photos taken by the press during those events — and compared to images from prior administrations — suggest Trump has made some of the most extensive changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold vermeil figurines to the mantle, gold medallions affixed to the fireplace, gilded Rococo mirrors over the doors and gold eagles perched on side tables.


Above the doorways, delicate gold cherubs peer down, a touch not seen in previous White House administrations. Gilded Rococo mirrors hang over the doors, reflecting the gold eagles perched on side tables, further reinforcing the theme.


Even the accessories along the Resolute Desk reflect Trump's fondness for the golden motif, with a gold-plated replica of the FIFA World Cup trophy sitting aside framed photos of Trump and his family, and what appears to be a golden urn supported by two cherub-like figures, all positioned prominently behind the famous presidential desk. However, this is not just a decorative urn. White House historian Donald Meriam told Newsweek that it is part of a larger set of fruit baskets from President James Monroe's gilt service, acquired from France in 1817. Their relocation to the Oval Office marks a notable departure from their traditional placement during White House tours.

"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???????




underpants

(194,588 posts)
66. If seen the second pic but wasn't aware of the contrast
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 06:28 PM
Apr 2025

That THING on the wall was installed by his guy from Mar a lago.

I have a fear of jewelry. That’s hideous.

VGNonly

(8,324 posts)
72. There's a scene in Patton,
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 08:48 PM
Apr 2025

he's staying in a huge gaudy room. He grumbles something like "Who decorated this cathouse?"

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