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am i alone in thinking that behind them are listening devices?

Thanks for saying "gold elements" because you know 0% of it is actually gold.

He made sure he got the cheap stuff before the tariffs kick in.

So tacky!

Somebody needs to make a montage of images of the new oval office and other Trump tackified things and set it to the Weird Al parody "Tacky".

"Added slowly" because someone misjudged the amount of gold spray paint decorators would need.

Cryptomoney doesn’t equal taste.

He wants everyone to know he has no class.

lol...edit button please! Come on, @Bluesky. I hate leaving typos behind but it's a complete pita to copy, delete, and repost. *destruction*

That wasn’t Melania, much as I loathe her, and it wasn’t “destruction.” gardenrant.com/2020/07/even...

The tackiest of all is the gold-brick lump in the red tie sitting behind desk.

"Tackification" is the perfect description of it. Saudi Princes and New Orleans bordellos would both be mortified by this decor.

"More cowbell"

it's so....tacky

it's the versailles but make it temu effect

Truly disgusting and extremely disrespectful. A palace would be decorated like that, not a democratic seat of government. He did announce from day one what his intentions were - I hope from hour one his democratic replacement tears this crap out of there.

JoAnne Fabric going out of business sale……

It’s SO TACKY and gross.🤮

What a tacky pos he is

Just thinking about how much flak Nancy Reagan got for redecorating the White House and spending so much money she had to sing “Secondhand Rose” at a charity even to smooth feathers lol lmao remember when republicans CARED about such things and had some ethics or even lines that could be crossed

Somebody else here said it might have looked like Liberace lived in a Motel 6.

Geez. Imagine sticking that fake glitz in the Oval Office. A decor nightmare. What a mental case.

It took time for Trump to determine which shiny but tarnished objects offered a true “window to his soul.” That’s roughly the same process he used to assemble his corrupt, incompetent “Ship of Fools” administration.

He is such a loser. His version of the mar a lago fish lips and fake boobs. Tacky is a requirement.

Appalling

ADD is a state of mind, much like the state of the union.

Do did they buy all that crap and then impose tariffs on China?

polyurethane and spray paint

It’s so damned tacky. I’m embarrassed for this country.

I'm sure there was a VERY specific pigmentation and hue of gold that he likes and they spent months nailing it. Because this is what he truly obsesses over.

"Gold paint is strongly exempt from tariffs"

What the hell are all the third reich trophy ribbons?

Why is there a portrait of Liberace in a business suit on the wall?

It takes some time to shop at the Dollar Store or a flea market for decor that tacky. And then you have to spray paint it all.

The ole frog in the pot. That’s some kind of obvious metaphor.

This article is pure gold 😬

Cluttered, tacky, and crappy… much like the current occupant.

I have a very small reach here on bluesky, so when I posted about this 2 months ago no one noticed. I am lucky enough to have been on a WH tour, and I knew this was all him and his ideas about what wealth & power should look like. I hope someday we can get back to the elegance of previous eras.

I heard that the sconces are gold-painted plaster items from Home Depot?

It’s so gross

Incrementally transforming the Oval into the Moscow Metro's Komsomolskaya Station

It was added slowly so as not to induce vomiting or seizures

They're all scratch 'n sniff now. Mostly smelling of cheeseburgers and despair.

A vulgarian gotta do what a vulgarian does. See also Putin's Kremlin. There are common threads of narcissistic vulgarity with many dictators. I'm waiting for the generalissimo uniforms & goose stepping Praetorian Guards.

No clothes at all

Tackification is a great term

Fake Tan Man Thinks It’s Real The Oval Office is now super tacky. Gold, cherubs, and bling. So wacky. He thinks it’s all real. Ancient and old. It’s polyurethane spray painted gold.

I am so horrified by the gold changes that I now can’t stand seeing anything gold (no gold faucets or cabinet pulls) on a flipping/renovation show. I just think of him and the “tackification” of the Oval Office, as you put it.

Ew. Tacky is right.

Hideous

Trump has faux rich taste.

omg

Needs more gold!

Never any “study” material on his Resolute desk. 🍔

Further proof you can't show me a current pick where Rubio lost like he hasn't lost his soul.

JFC, he decorating like me in my Animal Crossing house hanging shit everywhere to get a better HHA score.

🤮

UGH. Thanks for documenting this horrific makeover. I can't imagine what the rest of the place looks like now.

He’s all spray paint and cheap gold foil. No substance. Just like him.

But it’s all a style to indicate absolute power - fake or not it’s antidemocratic

He'll bankrupt the US like he bankrupted his casino. www.facebook.com/aflcio/video... 2021: "Trump’s most enduring legacy could be the historic rise in the national debt" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Strip clubs are more tasteful. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-... Smaug Trump:"Oooh glitters, must be gold."

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... "Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars 'endorsed' lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them" www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1...

Kremlin 2.0. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-... Soviet Republic of Trumpcrapistan (formerly known as USA). bsky.app/profile/just... New York Times (my snark): "No clear resemblance to Putin's Kremlin."

Did he have gold leaf added to the oval office or was that somehow painted?

Aw, sweet, he added a gilded cherub over the doorway. Place is beginning to look like a Etsy website.

like calcification in the declining neurons of a dementia patient, the gold was added slowly

Philip, Thank you for digging into the Oval Office gilding of the lily. It is all so gauche. Can you also enlighten us on this particular portrait of Ronald Reagan? It seems … odd?

It looks awfully gawdy.

It looks like King Midas threw up all over the place.

yes that's linked in the article

1985 edition of Encyclopedia Britannia?

It's like the opposite of the Coco Channel rule. Look at the wall, and wherever there isn't something that catches your eye, add something tacky.

Hahaha

Well, Temu doesn't ship overnight, y'know.

The guy’s got bad taste.

I assume you saw the post from the ladies that found all of these items at Home Depot. They're just cheap plastic elements spray-painted gold.

The gold curtains are holdovers from the 1st Trump term. Biden didn’t take them down. And Trump left them up for the 2nd term. I believe they are the curtains originally made for Clinton.

My assumption has been that every time Frump waddles off for a round of golf, they glue up more faux-gold frippery and every time he comes back he whines that it looks like a poor person's office and needs more gold.

So tacky and trashy

Yeah but ... Queens.