Frank Bruni, NYTimes - “…he ( #trump ) has been acting with a rapacity remarkable even for someone so famously given to greed. He’s creating an ostentatious White House ballroom in a new East Wing as tall as the main White House building. He’s attempting to stamp his visage on both sides of a $1 coin to commemorate the country’s 250th birthday. He’s constructing a whole new monument — a gaudy arch — for the occasion, too.

“He announced the building of a “golden fleet” of “Trump class” warships. He put his name on the Kennedy Center and on the U.S. Institute of Peace. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you,” he reportedly said during his first term in the presidency. In this second term, he’s in “don’t you dare forget me” mode, and the infinity of directions in which that impulse could sprawl is terrifying.” #TrumpRegime #Narcissism #Ostentation #EgoManiac

"I suppose Trump’s entitled to his garish decorating touches — someone who I can’t recall recently observed that he’s made the now gold-accented Oval Office look like Siegfried & Roy’s living room — since he does plan to live there for the next 3 ½ to 20 years, or whenever the statute of limitations expires for all the laws he’s breaking as America’s first dictator."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump #WhiteHouse #fakery #ostentation #style #AllThatGlittersIsNotGold

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/serenity-now

Serenity Now!

Enduring the Trumpocalypse

Slack Tide by Matt Labash

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 9 (1966)

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A quotation from Sarah J. Hale

We need not power or splendor;
   Wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender, —
   These form the wealth of home.

Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879) American writer, activist, magazine editor
“Home” (1830)

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A quotation from Molière

CLÉANTE: There’s true and false in piety, as in bravery,
   And just as those whose courage shines the most
   In battle, are the least inclined to boast,
   So those whose hearts are truly pure and lowly
   Don’t make a flashy show of being holy.
 
[Il est de faux dévots ainsi que de faux braves:
Et, comme on ne voit pas qu’où l’honneur les conduit
Les vrais braves soient ceux qui font beaucoup de bruit,
Les bons et vrais dévots, qu’on doit suivre à la trace,
Ne sont pas ceux aussi qui font tant de grimace.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/75622/

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Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L'Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)] - Moliere | WIST Quotations

CLÉANTE: There's true and false in piety, as in bravery, And just as those whose courage shines the most In battle, are the least inclined to boast, So those whose hearts are truly pure and lowly Don't make a flashy show of being holy. [Il est de faux dévots ainsi…

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Riche à tout prix // rich at all costs 💸

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A quotation from The Bible

   Be careful that you don’t practice your religion in front of people to draw their attention. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
   Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that you may give to the poor in secret. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
   When you pray, don’t be like hypocrites. They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people will see them. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is present in that secret place. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
 
   [Προσέχετε [δὲ] τὴν δικαιοσύνην ὑμῶν μὴ ποιεῖν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι αὐτοῖς· εἰ δὲ μή γε, μισθὸν οὐκ ἔχετε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
   Ὅταν οὖν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν. σοῦ δὲ ποιοῦντος ἐλεημοσύνην μὴ γνώτω ἡ ἀριστερά σου τί ποιεῖ ἡ δεξιά σου, ὅπως ᾖ σου ἡ ἐλεημοσύνη ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ· καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ ἀποδώσει σοι.
   Καὶ ὅταν προσεύχησθε, οὐκ ἔσεσθε ὡς οἱ ὑποκριταί, ὅτι φιλοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς γωνίαις τῶν πλατειῶν ἑστῶτες προσεύχεσθαι, ὅπως φανῶσιν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν. σὺ δὲ ὅταν προσεύχῃ, εἴσελθε εἰς τὸ ταμεῖόν σου καὶ κλείσας τὴν θύραν σου πρόσευξαι τῷ πατρί σου τῷ ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ· καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ ἀποδώσει σοι.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 6:1-6 [CEB (2011)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/bible-nt/10169/

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an ostentation of peacocks...

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an ostentation of peacocks...

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