Is the Fool's Gold in Trump's White House Already Tarnishing?

Opinion by Jill Filipovic

... It’s as if Liberace joined forces with Scrooge McDuck. Trump has added copious amounts of gold to every conceivable surface: More paintings with thick gold frames, more gold vases and urns and tchotchkes, even gold paint on the crown molding. There’s even a gold-framed New York Post cover with Trump’s mug shot on it.

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White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told The Wall Street Journal that, “It’s the Golden Office for the Golden Age.” Really though, it’s more of a gilded office for a new gilded age: A time when the rich swill champagne in their mansions and members-only clubs while the masses suffer through profound political polarization and extreme inequality. Today, the world’s uber-wealthy can buy a Trump Gold Card—of course—visa to get into the US; immigrants who aren’t flush, on the other hand, see the doors slam shut.

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But it all seems to quickly lose its sheen. The Trump name is so deeply associated with grift and chintz that many once-affluent buyers have fled his building. When the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino imploded in Atlantic City after years of neglect, crowds gathered to cheer. This is not a man who builds things that last. This is a man who makes things shiny for as long as it takes him to cash his checks.

The question now is what will come first: The flaking of the White House gold leaf, or the falling-apart of Trump’s presidency itself.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fools-gold-in-trumps-white-house-is-already-looking-tarnished/