Dissident by Birth
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸My god, it’s a gilded junk shop!
(I knew it was bad, but all the tacky gewgaws seem to have multiplied.)
I guess we should count ourselves lucky that his dress sense isn’t as flashy and vulgar as his interior design sense.
Though it’s always surprised me that such a status-obsessed New Yorker dresses so cheaply—regardless of style.
e.g.
Make me look like a man whose father never taught him to tie a tie, who gets his shoes at a Long Island mall and can’t be bothered with alterations when he buys a suit off the rack!
Mx. Eddie R@Holberg
I have a theory about the suit thing. It's a dare; he dresses ridiculously on purpose, because he knows "you" won't be brave enough to laugh at him because he's so powerful and important.
I have a theory about the suit thing. It's a dare; he dresses ridiculously on purpose, because he knows "you" won't be brave enough to laugh at him because he's so powerful and important.
@silvermoon82 Interesting!
liferstate@silvermoon82 I've seen a different take on the suits: that he only wants the most expensive suits, from ~luxury materials~ like silk. So the drape is weird, it wrinkles easily, it's never going to flatter his body type. Wool (or a similar weight fabric) would give him a better silhouette, but that's not ~luxury material~ so he won't have it. It's no more than amateur psychology but I think it holds up.
Michael Wyman@Holberg I’ve seen antique stores with more design taste.
@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.
@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.
gizmonicus@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.
Femme Malheureuse@mwyman @gizmonicus @Holberg Can't help but think of this advertisement whenever I think of Trump's gold-leafed excess.
Opulence, I has it - DirecTV commercial
MattChippytea@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/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877/
Bad at NamesI’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.
Timo@timo21 Haha! I like this theme of response!
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖
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Zaphod BeeblebroxI understand how he feels so at home in the “bordello” look. Ugh.
Dan Shuman@Holberg Def would choose the false grail
@bluegreenandfree Okay that made me laugh.
Will 🇯🇵
PixelJonesThis always reminds me of golden cat vomit heaved onto the walls. So embarrassing. Also, one of Orange Julius' lackeys has submitted plans to replace the White House's 200-year-old slender Ionic columns with gnarly Corinthian columns. I wouldn't be surprised if he wants those gilded, too. Barf.
Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️@Holberg
The fireplace mantle reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
"You must choose. But choose wisely. For as the true Grail will bring you life, a false Grail will take it from you."
The fireplace mantle reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
"You must choose. But choose wisely. For as the true Grail will bring you life, a false Grail will take it from you."
Felis_Catus_Domesticus
TheJen will not comply@Holberg He is the very definition of tacky. Everything about him is tacky.
@TheJen Always. I was such a snob about him even in 1986 because the first time I became aware of him I was among the Boston Brahmins and their view of his tackiness was WITHERING haha.
Joe MansfieldApart from everything else what’s the deal with the toy plane on the coffee table?
What’s that for?
@helvick Maybe the jet the Qataris are bribing him with?
Ham on WryThis explains why MAGA support him. In front of Trump is a model plane glued together by cousin Bob and in the background are uncle Bucks bowling trophies
@HamonWry Haha now I’ll only see bowling trophies and I love you for that.
Karen Marei PetersGood grief. What has he done!
Catsnfats 🇺🇦@Holberg I can’t wait to see that bust sport golden eyebrows.
Coho
Nomdeb@Holberg He has spent his entire life desperately trying to belong to the cultured class, but everything he does screams the opposite. He must hate that even with the title of POTUS, those whose approval he most craves, will always look down on him.
@nomdeb I agree. One of the reasons I think he’s just a combination of being profoundly stupid plus a narcissist is that any smart reasonably-well-adjusted man with that much money in the early ‘70s would’ve sought guidance, followed advice and entered society with ease.
Karin Sorenby
Brian DearIt’s like the cubicles of eBay, minus the tacky gold.
At eBay, everybody had a cubicle. It seemed like you were supposed adorn them with junk bought on … eBay. So people had Star Trek figurines, Simpsons miniatures, Beanie babies, beer bottle collections, unbelievable amounts of … face it … flair.
I bought a Bud Light Spuds Mackenzie dog light and that was the sole piece of flair in my cubicle.
Dodo
Snuffy
Michael FenichelSeems something like the #King Meidas counting room.... And we all know what happened to everything Meidas touched.
Same with Sir #TrumpVirus -
"Everything Trump Touches Dies" ✓
Like #democracy #justice #Constitution
The biggest piece of "junk", though, is right above the green tie of the creature seated on the right. His "big, beautiful, uh brain", with missing #ExecutiveFunctions like #reasoning and #planning, and deficiencies in #humanity & #morality too.
Junk. (Being kind)
billy joe bowers 🗽I know we always joke that Trump's decorating looks like he went to Michael's and bought a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold, but seriously, did they go to Michael's and buy a bunch of foam decorations and spray painted them gold?
Nick@billyjoebowers @Holberg To be fair, I think you can buy actual gold leaf at Michael's. There's only enough per package to laminate a single Trump steak. But it's real the way this Oval Office isn't.
Third World dictators look at Trump's Oval Office and laugh at the tackiness.
Richard K 
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Hot Dog WaterI hope someone points-out the handles aren't the same on the two second-nearest the outside. He'll freak out and it'll eat his brain for a few days in TV blatherings.
What a gross facade of grandeur slapped on a rumpled box of crap.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@GGMcBG Really, he has always been tacky, imo. Like most would-be emperors, he equates gold colours with class. Cheating at golf to get trophies, from his own golf courses. Surrounding himself with glitter and glam.
His obsession with prizes and trophies. He even collected RFKJr like a trophy...hanging on his every word because he is a member of the 'American Royal Family'.
If that was all, we could pity him. But, he has a mean streak, and he likes to hurt people. He never forgets a grudge, and he has the power to exact vengeance.
His appetite for destruction is only exceeded by his ignorance; of politics, and finance, and human relations. @Holberg
His obsession with prizes and trophies. He even collected RFKJr like a trophy...hanging on his every word because he is a member of the 'American Royal Family'.
If that was all, we could pity him. But, he has a mean streak, and he likes to hurt people. He never forgets a grudge, and he has the power to exact vengeance.
His appetite for destruction is only exceeded by his ignorance; of politics, and finance, and human relations. @Holberg
Joshua A.C. Newman@Holberg Daily trips to Home Depot for frilly bullshit and gold rattlecans.
Fox
Morten Juhl-Johansen@Holberg He actually has a toy Air Force 1 in his office?
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Comrade Weez@Holberg looks pretty nice for a cheap brothel