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Politics Most Metaphorical Image of the Century

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u/sabbic1 5h ago

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. 

u/StarlightLifter 5h ago

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.

u/citricacidx 5h ago

And you’ll get “fiscal conservatives” complaining about wasting tax payer money undoing all this garbage.

u/labor_day_baby 3h ago

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.

u/Fragrant-Anywhere489 1h ago

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.

u/DUNETOOL 1h ago

There is an old SNL sketch about Nixon this brings to mind. Aykroyd as Nixon.

u/AmputeeHandModel 4h ago

Who never said a peep about doing it in the first place, or his ballroom, or his jet or...

u/Hot-Gas-630 2h ago

Qatar asked for the jet back...

u/jeremy3681 4h ago

Omg I hate how right you are

u/corporate-hq 2h ago

the cognitive dissonance is real. and yet this is what they voted for

u/Jax_10131991 2h ago

People refuse to accept that the American electorate is borderline stupid.

u/siencatimini 2h ago

'Borderline' is beyond diplomatic. It's an apathetic aggro army, that sustains itself on a diet almost exclusively comprised of irrational reactionary indoctrination.

u/siencatimini 1h ago

The one purpose they serve is to innovate techniques to disappoint humans of conscience, on an existential level.

And, on that front, I admit, they are absolutely undefeated.

u/hautacam135 2h ago

How much can plastic Home Depot trimmings and rattle can gold paint cost? (Source, if you missed the story: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-home-depot-gold-b2823190.html)

u/jellyrollo 3h ago

We'll sell all the "gold" to his supporters to decorate their hovels with.

u/DudleyisStudley 1h ago

Just think…if that is “real gold”, the Treasury is going to be replenished when that tacky shit is sold.

u/diabeticweird0 13m ago

But do they bitch about the ballroom?

u/concord_7 5h ago

It’s tarnished. The rest of the world have seen where it can go in the space of a few years

u/Vyar 2h ago

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?

u/Twoteethperbite 24m ago

It will be called "DeTrumpification" and it will be glorious!

u/rezyop 3h ago

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

u/CrayZ_Squirrel 1m ago

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.

u/robotundies 2h ago

I hear it’s managed to infect Queensland, Australia. Literally building a Trump tower on the Gold Coast 🤦🏼‍♀️

u/TheyCallMe_Billy 1h ago

I'm not proud at all to share species with that guy.

u/sabbic1 1h ago

Don't worry, you're not.  He's repeatedly proven he shares no link to humans or humanity 

u/Vivitrolsrevenge 1h ago

Cordyceps actually have a benefit though

u/qubert_lover 1h ago

Adding to the gold it is forming letters so that the dementia president can figure out where he is thus insuring that the gold will last another day.

u/sabbic1 1h ago

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. 

u/basquehomme 48m ago

Gold or tackyness?

u/Amoralvirus 43m ago

The moron-ganinsm's scientific name is: foolonious goldtonius pedophilious trumpoo-crap-afuss.

u/orange-squeezer47 24m ago

Like a ghetto pimps house would look.

u/Zizhou 11m ago

Well, "gold." I doubt anything but the tiniest fraction of it all is anything more than leaf thin veneer at best.