Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Mar 17

My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!

(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)

Show threadMichael WymanMar 17
@Holberg I’ve seen antique stores with more design taste.
Show threadMats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Mar 17
@mwyman And the shock, perhaps, of seeing it in a space we’ve always known without really noticing subtle, tasteful changes unless an article pointed out why a president chose this or that.
Show threadMichael Wyman

@Holberg there was usually the subtle changes in artwork, but usually just different portraits or placements. Then the tasteful but noticeable tweak between blue and red carpets/drapes.

Trump’s insistence on gold everything just makes the whole place look chintzy.

Mar 17 at 11:40pmIvory for iOS
Show threadgizmonicusMar 18
@mwyman @Holberg Worse, it makes the White House look like a goddamn royal palace. Or more accurately, what an intellectual toddler THINKS a royal palace looks like. The White House is specifically NOT a palace.
Show threadMichael WymanMar 18
@gizmonicus @Holberg Trump wants it to resemble the Kremlin, or the palace in St. Petersburg. (He’s not high-class enough to think about Versailles.) And yeah, specifically not meant to be a palace.
Show threadFemme MalheureuseMar 18

@mwyman @gizmonicus @Holberg Can't help but think of this advertisement whenever I think of Trump's gold-leafed excess.

https://youtu.be/CjWYbcbpiWA

Opulence, I has it - DirecTV commercial

YouTube
Show threadMattChippyteaMar 18
@mwyman @gizmonicus @femme_mal @Holberg oh my word it’s perfect
Show threadliferstateMar 18
@gizmonicus @mwyman @Holberg Yes. I read this 2017 piece belatedly last year, and everything about the Trumpian aesthetic suddenly made sense.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/
Donald Trump Has a “Dictator Chic” Design Taste

I wrote a book about autocrats’ design tastes. The U.S. president would fit right in.

POLITICO Magazine
Show threadBad at NamesMar 22

@gizmonicus @Holberg @mwyman

I’ve been in royal palaces and the nearest thing America has to one, they don’t look like this. This is a demented idiot’s idea of what that looks like - it ain’t for nothing that the line in Crazy Rich Asians about the insanely chintzy house was “this looks like a cross between the palace of Versailles and Donald Trump’s bathroom”.

This is just that but less charming.