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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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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 135 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is turning it into Mar-a-Lago.

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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...

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

I like the cut of your jib

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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Ugh. I don't love the green, but that after picture is hideous.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

No imagination needed.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 57 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Try to tell me this fuck isn't intending on staying past 2028. :/

He's been selling Trump 2028 merch for a while now. His new campaign slogan is "Rewrite the rules."

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

His old strategist Bannon said to The Economist just last week that Trump will serve a third term, and that their criteria for success is MAGA in control of every American institution, forever

No, not hyperbole, damn near exact quote

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWEEvaMurw

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It isn't your fucking house asshole.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago

Hey that's right. It's our (taxpayer's) house. We should evict him.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Yes it is. No one is stopping him from anything. He could nuke the entire planet and he’d rule over rubble.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...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.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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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[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (7 children)
  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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

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

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

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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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago

This Kidfucker’s Friend saw Saddham’s palace and decided it looked like a good idea.

He shoulda stayed awake for the end of that vine.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago
[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For a heterosexual man he sure seems preoccupied with interior design and his makeup.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 12 points 1 week ago

He is also as terrible at both as the stereotypical heterosexual man.

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[–] brandocorp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess he's really not planning to leave if he's doing this much redecorating.

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

And funding it privately iirc. 100% he is not planning to leave.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SNAP ends Tomorrow! I LOVE TRUMP!

-Poor Republicans!

[–] WarmSoda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Federal judges are forcing them to fund snap :)

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

GOOD thing Republicans LISTEN to Judges!

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He should be careful. A doddery old stroke victim with Alzheimer's could slip on all that polished marvel.

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Lincoln's ghost will push a bitch.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The whole thing is coming down. You know it.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

When he's done with all the renovations the white house is gonna be Epsteins Pedo Party Palace.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I hope he slips in there those rock edges look unforgiving enough to do the job

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

He's not getting the damage deposit back

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

It's hideous.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My big takeaway from these pictures is that one can take a shit by an unfrosted floor-to-ceiling window to the outside

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago

The after pictures is like a Minecraft house where they just used the same blocks for everything and a gold fixtures mod.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

This is how you make America great!!!!!!!!!!! Just non-stop winning! Fuck the kids and all humans in the borders. Food and healthcare are boring. A renovated bathroom, that’s amazing!!!

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s cool, all of these temporary modifications to waste tax payers money with. His style is so awful, that any new president is going to change what he changed so they don’t barf everyday. I love seeing my tax dollars get wasted while we are all out here barely surviving. Our government has failed us ladies and gentlemen.

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