Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago

My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!

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

Show threadMichael Wyman6d ago
@Holberg I’ve seen antique stores with more design taste.
Show threadMats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸6d ago
@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 Wyman6d ago

@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.

Show threadgizmonicus6d ago
@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 threadliferstate
@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
Mar 18 at 2:50amWeb