Children are starving and the president is focused on renovating white house bathrooms with gold fixtures. He is certainly following Nero’s footsteps.

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    Kings did this intentionally to prove their wealth and power while the masses begged for food. It helped them illustrate that there was a pecking order.

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      I get it, he wants to make it feel like home if he’s gonna be living there for the rest of his life.

      He won’t be stepping down from this gig, he knows the consequences he’ll have to face if he becomes a normal citizen again.

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        I get it, he wants to make it feel like home if he’s gonna be living there for the rest of his life.

        Much of the White House was decorated by Jackie Kennedy, and her husband ended up spending the rest of his life there, so maybe this will be the same thing…

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        yea I think it’s mostly fear driving his every move nowadays. He probably wants to spend his last days as unbothered as possible

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          If we all try really hard, we can give him a bigly stroke. Hugely.

          Like Cloud or Goku channeling the planet.

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        Trump even recently said it’s “pretty clear” he can’t run for a 3rd term.

        Stop perpetuating this doomer nonsense.

        He wouldn’t be desperately trying to gerrymander states to keep Senate seats if he truly thought he was a king.

        Authoritarianism only works when you get so emotionally beaten down that you acquiesce in advance.

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          Trump even recently said it’s “pretty clear” he can’t run for a 3rd term.

          We all know that Trump’s words are worth Zero.

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          He also said he’d never heard of Project 2025 - until he began to implement it. His supporters had been beating the drum for months.

          He said he believed in states rights - until some states didn’t tow his line.

          He said he can’t run for a third term, but has also said “that’s a shame” and his cronies are beating that drum too “with a plan”

          The gerrymandering is to lock in gop supremacy for once he’s gone.

          I’m more than happy to be proven wrong - hell, I really hope I am, but fool me once…

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          It’s not acquiescence, it’s a warning and call to arms. Jan 6 shows us he will go to extreme measures to stay in power. I do not believe he will fail again.

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    Trump has no taste. If it is the most expensive then it is the most appropriate, but only if it’s gold and white.

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    This administration does not have their priorities straight. Not paying employees, firing thousands of people, this obsession with gold. The end of USAID, so much more, it’s just so disheartening.

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    Holy shit is that tacky.

    Can you imagine the president having nothing better to do than golf, take pictures of the bathroom, and fuck children?

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    What a disgrace. He’s tearing up history and smearing his gold flake feces all over the place.

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    …how many bugs -and I don’t mean the crawly critters- do you think are making it into the whitehouse through all these renovations?

    In the fantasy world of a functional US government following the Trump regime, how do you even handle this? Everything he touches is a gigantic liability.

    I think at this point I’d have the WH converted into a museum highlighting shit like the dangers of misinformation, and just pick up ops from one of the military bases that we’re sure Trump never set foot in.

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      During Nixon’s renovations he embedded so many bugs and wires in the walls it interfered with the structural integrity of the plaster.

      So there’s precedent for counter-surveillance scrubdowns.

      But, that only happens if the WH is taken back from the dictator inside it.

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        Funny that. I bet there’s a press release soon: “we found structural damage in the WH” followed by a complete demolishment.

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    1. Holy shit how fucked are are that this is even news. I hate this so much.

    2. I hate when a stupid motherfucker is right because, outside the gold, the marble looks way fuckin better than that green.

    3. To claim that marble and gold is somehow more era appropriate for Lincoln is pretty standard Trump-alternate-reality delusion fueled by narcissism.

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      I think the marble looks weird as fuck and would make the bathroom uncomfortable to be in, while the green tile is very pleasing and cozy, with nice accents

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      Gold is tacky as fuck and that dude wouldn’t know good taste even if it was sold at the bottom of a ketchup bottle.

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      Agreed on all counts aside from 2.

      The original had class and functionality, complete with datum lines and concealed lighting. It was aged, for sure, but the design comes together and looks comfortable.

      The new one is literally just slabs of maybe real marble but i doubt it. There’s no demarcation between floor and ceiling. It’s as if someone just used the paint bucket tool and clicked fill. The lighting is atrocious; if you’re in the bath you cop an eyeful of a glare bomb.

      I’d take the original any day. Would have probably just added sheer curtains to the windows.

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      I completely agree on 2, I think the green looked like ass and the marble is a significant improvement. I don’t get his obsession with gold though, brushed nickel would’ve gone much better in there.

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        Go figure, the fat fuck that wears a girdle and stilts and paints himself orange and has a vagina for a neck doesn’t have good taste…

        Maybe it’s not even up to him to decide. Oh well. He did. Now we have more ugly. He makes everything smell like farts.