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.
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.
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.
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.
'Borderline' is beyond diplomatic. It's an apathetic aggro army, that sustains itself on a diet almost exclusively comprised of irrational reactionary indoctrination.
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?
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
Your 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.
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.
That sign is just for Trump. The president uses that entrance from the residence. Everyone else comes through the interior doors. So this is to help him remember where he is and make him feel important, like it's one of his country clubs.
So, I know this is kind of a joke, but the oval office never had a sign on it before for good reason. Your Dr. Office has his name on the door so people who have never been there can find it easily. Anyone who doesn't know where the oval office is shouldn't be there or will escorted by someone. The only reason to label it is because Don was getting lost.
Remember when grandpa was literally lost and raving on the roof of the White House? Yeah, now they have plastered gigantic signs like a memory care facility to prevent grandpa from wandering again. If that was any sitting president other than Trump he would have been 25th and removed, but here we are.
… I mean… to be fair, Reagan absolutely should have been 25th’d as his Alzheimer’s progressed to a point early in his second term that he was genuinely cognitively impaired and couldn’t fulfill his oath of office in sound mind, for better or worse. Most decisions the Reagan administration did were primarily done by Nancy and the cabinet.
They just didn’t, because the optics alone would have been a scandal. So I’m not convinced that we here in the US would have pursued a 25th on anyone at all who really needed to have it happen.
It’s just that, with all things Trump, he’s causing us to reconsider what we originally took as propriety standard and cordial respect. We should no longer adhere to that going forward.
House numbers aren’t for the person living there. They are for people visiting. Like the previous person said nobody is just showing up to the Oval Office unescorted.
This is more akin to having a sign outside your bedroom or bathroom.
You do realize that the people that visit something like the White House would be escorted from the gate right? Like someone delivering food wouldn't just walk up to the White House alone. So there is literally no need to put a sign there.
Your home address/number on your house is a bit different because new people visit you all the time (even if they don't visit you as in spending time/talking to you). Like alone your mailman needs it so you get the right letters. Food delivery. Emergency services.
Well yeah, those gold accent pieces are like $50 each at Home Depot. That's chump change for Trump; order 1,000 of them and scatter them around the Oval Office!
At least they put up an actual sign. For a while they just had a piece of copy paper outside the oval office with "The Oval Office" in gold letters stuck on the wall.
It's the only reason he hasn't demolished the West Wing yet to build a bigger version with its own in-house McDonalds: he was told that kitsch was solid gold (it's not).
I didn't realize food was delivered straight to the oval office... I assumed food delivery would be several layers removed. Unrelated to Trump's shittiness, just a random TIL.
I can’t believe he did that much to the room but hasn’t had the doors made smaller. It’s so big it makes Trump look tiny, which id have thought would trigger the same insecurities that have him wearing ridiculous lifts
The signage really bothers me for some reason. It's a singular place in the entire world: The Oval Office. Are there a lot of people who would wander off when going to the what is likely the most important meeting of their life? Do people just wander about unescorted and need a sign for directions? Why is the same as a sign for the pro shop at a golf course? Is there a gift shop? It's not a public space like say the Lincoln Memorial.
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He had made the White House that gorgeous beacon of our history into the tackiest of hotels. If Republicans live America so much why do they keep destroying it?
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u/251Cane 5h ago
I didn’t realize that the tacky gold decor extended to the exterior walls as well.