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OMG. Now we know why he was inquiring about Fort Knox months ago. (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2025 OP
Tacky, Tacky, Tacky. Ms. Toad Aug 2025 #1
Then there's the Dylan line: thucythucy Aug 2025 #20
Indeed! calimary Aug 2025 #32
Beyond tacky. It is destroyed the historical architecture of the White House. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #2
The Christmas Tree store by me closed. Now I know who bought their shit. TheBlackAdder Aug 2025 #24
yuky AllaN01Bear Aug 2025 #38
That is white marble or granite above the fireplace and he put up that ugly gold plated shit on it? Called a filigree. Botany Aug 2025 #47
Wait till you see the ballroom, he wants to build. It will be bigger than the White House. ... aggiesal Aug 2025 #59
There has to be a way to stop the desecration of the White House. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #62
He must have hired Saddam Hussein's pimp's interior decorator. Ocelot II Aug 2025 #3
Yep underpants Aug 2025 #5
There's always money in the banana stand. Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #36
I saw a bumper sticker that said that once. I cracked up. underpants Aug 2025 #37
Well, if South Park is to be believed ... carpetbagger Aug 2025 #8
Lewis Black pointed out years ago that Trump and Saddam Hussien had the same taste in decorating. Initech Aug 2025 #41
I SOOOO hate this. I'd love to be among the cheering, ecstatic crowd to see the former Rose Garden concrete hlthe2b Aug 2025 #4
Why would anyone do something this tacky and cheesy to a historic building? It's going to cost a fortune Vinca Aug 2025 #6
He is doing all this crap, HappyH Aug 2025 #10
Because he thinks gold is classy, and that more gold means more classy Ocelot II Aug 2025 #16
Because he thinks it's his house and he isn't going anywhere. meadowlander Aug 2025 #46
Have you seen his trump tower condo? sdfernando Aug 2025 #48
You can feel the joy underpants Aug 2025 #7
In her mind she's thinking moniss Aug 2025 #28
Cheesy BoRaGard Aug 2025 #9
That's tacky even for a brothel. Solly Mack Aug 2025 #11
He's laundering the gold from Ft. Knox. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #12
Shouldn't it all be protected under the jurisdiction of a historical preservation society? RockCreek Aug 2025 #13
And nobody does anything, this country is asleep Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #14
That's what really pizzes me off, gab13by13 Aug 2025 #22
Remember the sanguine satisfaction after the No Kings rallies? misanthrope Aug 2025 #83
Looking like a whorehouse. bif Aug 2025 #15
His grandpappy Drumpf made a lot of money Haggard Celine Aug 2025 #21
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Oh, look! You're back! Enjoy your stay. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #66
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Pepperoni this time? Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #71
Welcome back Emile Aug 2025 #67
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That is Emile, but I don't think "simple things" was referring to you, though. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #72
Patience, your pizza is still in the oven. Emile Aug 2025 #73
MIRT rules, don't they? Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #74
Yes they rule! Good job MIRT! Emile Aug 2025 #75
He is not planning on leaving... EarthAbides Aug 2025 #17
Sadly, the Trump White House, the dollhouse version, will be a huge hit over Christmas. Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 #18
Everyone's (surprise) present this year ....TARIFFS underpants Aug 2025 #29
He looks like a pissed-off midget Metaphorical Aug 2025 #19
stump IS Sydney Greenstreet -See Camera Angle MrWowWow Aug 2025 #61
Check to see if your browser has a Shield near the website address. ... aggiesal Aug 2025 #64
Awesome acting on both men's sides. Botany Aug 2025 #80
How many solid gold dicks can I make from Fort Knox? milestogo Aug 2025 #23
Trump size would make many more dicks than average size.. Dave Bowman Aug 2025 #63
Several bagsful, no doubt. sorcrow Aug 2025 #81
Trump's style is early upholstered whore house. rsdsharp Aug 2025 #25
Not surprising given his ancestor was a German pimp. Crowman2009 Aug 2025 #33
Vulgar in the extreme. 3catwoman3 Aug 2025 #26
Tacky. Gauche. Vulgar. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #27
Gilding the lily. applegrove Aug 2025 #30
He wants it to look like a baroque bordello! Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #35
Even more so, when you realize that all that "gold" stuff GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #44
Well, he thinks he's a king now, so I guess it's expected. calimary Aug 2025 #51
Yes. That's exactly what it is. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #53
Pics enid602 Aug 2025 #31
Tres gauche PJMcK Aug 2025 #34
Trumps deco are TACKY to say the least!! riversedge Aug 2025 #39
That looks like shit! StarryNite Aug 2025 #40
That's some awful gold peel-and-stick stuff Trump has added. democrank Aug 2025 #42
Each time a new video or photo of that room appears, there's more cheap crap allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #43
what a classless douchebag orleans Aug 2025 #45
Disgusting. Hideous. Sacrilege. ShazzieB Aug 2025 #49
Seriously??? Beacool Aug 2025 #50
Cheap plastic crap, I'm sure. CaptainTruth Aug 2025 #52
He screams "Get the fuck off my cement lawn". twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #54
If you decorate the People's house like the Palace of Versailles don't be surprised when they set up a guillotine. CrispyQ Aug 2025 #55
It looks like an Australian's nightmare. LudwigPastorius Aug 2025 #56
What a cheese dick... ECL213 Aug 2025 #57
The bling sings madamesilverspurs Aug 2025 #58
Looking more and more like an authoritarian Russian palace... AntiFascist Aug 2025 #60
at some point all this gaudy shit will have to be unfucked. nt Javaman Aug 2025 #69
January 2029. Hopefully. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2025 #84
So gawdy and tasteless Pachamama Aug 2025 #76
Putin does this too. Gold to cover up his eveilness Bread and Circuses Aug 2025 #77
As my mother always said . . . markpkessinger Aug 2025 #78
don't know what the fuck yall on aboot. this is the new maga chic. Nimble_Idea Aug 2025 #79
Oh, geeeebz, look at the door! And the rest in the Oval Office...TACKY! electric_blue68 Aug 2025 #82

Ms. Toad

(38,239 posts)
1. Tacky, Tacky, Tacky.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:28 AM
Aug 2025

I was reading a book yesterday. One of the comments fits this perfectly: "Money talks, wealth whispers." He ain't whispering anything.

calimary

(89,034 posts)
32. Indeed!
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:12 PM
Aug 2025

One helluva quote for these times.

“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”


https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjodoNSqsUcHVW2yTBjI65-Im_u6lz9RLJLVlSYuvXAMUTof8B
The phrase "Money doesn't talk, it swears" is a line from the Bob Dylan song "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", released in 1965. The song is included on his album "Bringing It All Back Home.”

Botany

(76,378 posts)
47. That is white marble or granite above the fireplace and he put up that ugly gold plated shit on it? Called a filigree.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:46 PM
Aug 2025


Did they drill into the stone to mount that crap?

Btw they couldn’t even stack the wood right.

aggiesal

(10,534 posts)
59. Wait till you see the ballroom, he wants to build. It will be bigger than the White House. ...
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:26 PM
Aug 2025

It's the big building to the right


And the interior is supposed to look similar to this.

Initech

(107,410 posts)
41. Lewis Black pointed out years ago that Trump and Saddam Hussien had the same taste in decorating.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:32 PM
Aug 2025

hlthe2b

(112,794 posts)
4. I SOOOO hate this. I'd love to be among the cheering, ecstatic crowd to see the former Rose Garden concrete
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

jack-hammered out of existence, while landscapers wait to returf the entire area and horticulturists & historians wait to do what they can to restore the plants. Meanwhile, inside, all that damned gold crap is removed...

That is, if Trump hasn't managed to kill us all before then. (Yes, really.)

Vinca

(53,337 posts)
6. Why would anyone do something this tacky and cheesy to a historic building? It's going to cost a fortune
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:35 AM
Aug 2025

to put things back to normal when he's gone.

HappyH

(175 posts)
10. He is doing all this crap,
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:44 AM
Aug 2025

the ballroom, the tacky goldish do dads and the Rose Garden destruction, because he has no plans to leave

Ocelot II

(129,021 posts)
16. Because he thinks gold is classy, and that more gold means more classy
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:54 AM
Aug 2025

when it actually means tacky and cheesy when applied to a Palladian-style neoclassical building like the White House. The style was a reaction against the Baroque excesses of the 17th century, which featured a lot of ornate details and a lot of gold, e.g., Versailles. But Versailles' interiors were carefully designed to match the aesthetic of the grand building itself - they weren't the result of someone coming in, looking around and deciding there wasn't enough gold and just slapping bits of filigree and doodads wherever there was a blank space. Versailles isn't tacky and cheesy, but Trump's White House screams white trash.

sdfernando

(6,019 posts)
48. Have you seen his trump tower condo?
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:50 PM
Aug 2025

That thing is the very definition of tackiness and gaudiness. It reeks of someone desperate to show how much money he has...but it, along with so much more, will never get him into the "old money" club he so longs to be a part of.

moniss

(8,691 posts)
28. In her mind she's thinking
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:58 PM
Aug 2025

"Please Dear God don't let him call on me or even realize I'm here."

Irish_Dem

(79,741 posts)
12. He's laundering the gold from Ft. Knox.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:49 AM
Aug 2025

Turn it into White House decorations then take it with him when he leaves. Or replace it with fake gold decorations.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)
14. And nobody does anything, this country is asleep
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 11:51 AM
Aug 2025

No I don’t have the fucking answers don’t ask me for the fucking answers but something better fucking happen pretty soon😡

gab13by13

(31,178 posts)
22. That's what really pizzes me off,
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:20 PM
Aug 2025

They do it right out in the open. When Democrats had the chance to take a stand back at the CR vote, the Senate kneecapped the House that was ready to fight. Stuff like fighting back in March is looking up a dead horse's ass, too late now.

Rachel Maddow said we are an autocracy right now.

They do illegal shit that's never been done before; send a sex trafficker of little girls to a minimum security jail, never been done before. Not to worry, Robert Garcia sent a stern letter to the head of the Bureau of federal prisons.

They will do something else illegal today, like conduct a bogus census. Bring people on cable news to tell us how awful Magats are for doing illegal terrible things.

misanthrope

(9,367 posts)
83. Remember the sanguine satisfaction after the No Kings rallies?
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 02:20 AM
Aug 2025

The momentum from then was squandered.

Haggard Celine

(17,678 posts)
21. His grandpappy Drumpf made a lot of money
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:19 PM
Aug 2025

from his whorehouse in the Yukon during the Gold Rush. The nugget that the old man made from pimping is what started the Trump family fortune.

Response to bif (Reply #15)

Response to Scrivener7 (Reply #66)

Response to Emile (Reply #67)

Metaphorical

(2,595 posts)
19. He looks like a pissed-off midget
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 12:15 PM
Aug 2025

Have you ever noticed how he always demands to be shown with a low camera angle, so that he seems to loom over everyone else. It's all smoke and mirrors.

aggiesal

(10,534 posts)
64. Check to see if your browser has a Shield near the website address. ...
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:50 PM
Aug 2025

If you do, click on it, and turn it off.
See if that works.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
35. He wants it to look like a baroque bordello!
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:14 PM
Aug 2025

After he leaves, the Restoration team will have their work cut out for them.

GoCubsGo

(34,662 posts)
44. Even more so, when you realize that all that "gold" stuff
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:38 PM
Aug 2025

Is just cheap, wooden appliques that they picked up at the Home Depot, and that the "gold" is just Rust-o-Leum spray paint. It's vomit-inducing--just like the guy who is responsible for this ugly-ass mess.

calimary

(89,034 posts)
51. Well, he thinks he's a king now, so I guess it's expected.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:09 PM
Aug 2025

As nauseating and completely tasteless as it is.

He’s not my king and never will be. Heck, I didn’t even vote for him to be president.

enid602

(9,617 posts)
31. Pics
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:11 PM
Aug 2025

All he needs are some action pics of his wife wearing nothing but sunglasses and a pistol to complete the look.

democrank

(12,125 posts)
42. That's some awful gold peel-and-stick stuff Trump has added.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:34 PM
Aug 2025

Life on a gold platter. That’s Trump’s look. All this while people everywhere are wondering if they will have health care or food next month.

orleans

(36,667 posts)
45. what a classless douchebag
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:38 PM
Aug 2025

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.

sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

Jon Keegan (@jonkeegan.com) 2025-04-15T21:07:52.581Z


the replies on the op post from bsky are great!




ShazzieB

(22,204 posts)
49. Disgusting. Hideous. Sacrilege.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:55 PM
Aug 2025

Those are just a few of the words that come to mind. Also tasteless, trashy, gaudy, and tawdry.

Beacool

(30,500 posts)
50. Seriously???
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:56 PM
Aug 2025

Look at that door. It's almost as if he's making fun of people. If I didn't know better, I would think that he's trolling people by making deliberate tacky decorative choices. But alas, that's just his tacky and gauche taste. I call it Russian oligarch chic.




CrispyQ

(40,665 posts)
55. If you decorate the People's house like the Palace of Versailles don't be surprised when they set up a guillotine.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:13 PM
Aug 2025

Stolen from FB.

ECL213

(429 posts)
57. What a cheese dick...
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:24 PM
Aug 2025

I'm surprised he doesn't have some of his fake golf trophies on the mantle.

AntiFascist

(13,718 posts)
60. Looking more and more like an authoritarian Russian palace...
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:27 PM
Aug 2025

notice the same circular designs:

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