“Rather than rail against this desecration of a national symbol, perhaps it’s better to welcome it. The presidency will never be the same post-Trump, so why not the White House? Why not make concrete and visible the destruction of centuries-old norms and values?”
The president doesn’t respect what the executive mansion stands for, so why would he respect its architecture?
I’m confused as to why there isn’t an historical foundation that prevents this. Bad enough that the Oval Office looks like a brothel, but demolition/addition to a house he doesn’t own is wrong. Can he not just hurry up with his looting so he can live out his fantasies in another country?
Vandals don't care. they just want to leave a mark.
This buffoon is a temporary tenant in OUR HOUSE. He must be stopped from making structural changes that are not required to maintain the structural integrity of the buildings. Period.
Agree…articles of the fall
spray painted plastic.
It's his house so he can do what he wants. .he isn't leaving sooo..make it maralago north
It's a tawdry piece of shit. Befitting this current President.
I guess that whole budget-cutting thing was a sham
No class.
MAGA is literally afraid of the future so they retreat to the past. Doing the same on meaningless things serve us no better.
Like a Slovenian whorehouse. Quite fitting.
EVERYTHING TRUMP HAS DONE - CAN BE UNDONE!
It’s not his house and president should not be able to do this type of ridiculous mess. Change the furniture is one thing but this should not be allowed. Trump has taught us a hard lesson.
The White House, Mar-a-Lago are decorated in the ways that explains why most millionaires and billionaires never really socialized with Trump throughout the years.
Wealth might help someone buy fame and power but it can't buy class.
So tacky
Because we already have that. It's called San Simeon, and it is a monument to plutocratic bad taste and wasted money.
Democracy is a bunch of norms in a trenchcoat
Trump has never had an original thought in his scurvy life
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It’s not unlike the Jan 6 insurrectionists literally shitting all over the Capitol
Like a Brodel
To think that the Oval Office is now a smelly bordello of corruption and despotism. This cannot stand. This corruption and attack on American Democracy cannot stand.
It would be amazing if he built it and could never enter it.
That gold crap needs to be removed and thrown in the trash on the day he leaves office.
Unfortunately, it will stand as a physical reminder of this period of our history, a monument to a cautionary tale. Then, I hope a future First Man, will ask his President wife if he can have those offices back. And that will be the end of his mark on Our House.
This addition is not a celebration of the republic or an ornament to democracy. It’s an audience hall where Donald can gather an adoring audience sufficient to sooth his fragile ego He cannot venture into an actual public gathering lest he be heckled and humiliated by many Americans.
If the U.S. needs anyone to come burn down the White House again, I know about 40 million Canadians who would be happy to oblige.
He should have hired a decorator because he has very garish and cheap taste……killed the Oval Office with tooo much gold stuff…?the beautiful roses garden now just a hunk of concrete etc
As a French senator put it: "this is the court of Nero" and it's eerily true in more than one way.
Why's he building a mega ballroom? He's easy to figure out. More room to charge many more millions to line his pockets with cash. As simple as that.
There's no reason to keep vandalism as a memorial to what was a terrible time.
I am waiting for the person who paints Trump gold, like in “Goldfinger”, and he exits the White House as a true Trump.
HOAs have stricter rules than what some asshole with rancid sartorial and aesthetic senses can do to one of the symbols of America
It looks like all the gilded decor is removable. So, maybe Trump and the rest of the Manson Family will take them with them in their final act.
Trump needs to be adorned by glitzy gaudy gold & pricey items. He thinks it makes him look powerful. It doesn’t. His tacky style belongs in his Mar-a-Lago spa. Trump doesn’t respect protocols/norms or laws. He sounds stupid; lacks class /values/integrity. Trump-trash NEVER belonged in public office!
A must watch. This women tells it like it is when it comes to trump . youtu.be/ikmQRj_RPC8
Money can’t buy class!
Tacky, just like him
