Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol
New money energy.
I also didn’t notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.
I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like…
I’m GLAD we Gutted my VA Benefits to be Able to afford THAT!
Painting over a pedophile’s mistakes is going to be the theme in America for an entire generation.
Looks really byzantine, kinda something some russian tzar would have done if they were re-decorating
Only thing he’s missing now is the golden shower.
Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east
Hey, relax guy
Well you’re half right.
Bad thing happens in the West
Liberals: “What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!”
Tankies just can’t stop simping for dictators with pathetic disingenous strawmen.
Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = “simping for dictators”
I’m increasingly convinced that liberals don’t even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you’re on.
When you read the description “dictator from the middle east” and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.
What exactly do you think their point was?
Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.
The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it “designed by a dictator from the middle east” is about as bad of an insult as “designed by a king from europe”. It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don’t believe in Western exceptionalism.
The reason looking at Trump’s ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they “look like a middle eastern dictator designed it” is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.
But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump’s gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism
Saying Trump’s design sense is “Like a middle eastern dictator” is very different from saying it’s “like a European king”. The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people’s the Global South.
Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I’m begging you people!
Go back to your reddit
A white man redecorated the Whitehouse and the person I responded to went “This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!” I don’t think I’m the one who needs to go back to reddit
and the person I responded to went “This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!"
Yeah? Is that what they said?
Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east
Yes.
I think you’re the racist one here.
Wanna explain that one, Sherlock?
Wouldn’t even be surprised if someone from MBS’s team is involved
MBS
Mohammed Ben Sulayem? President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) who is trying to be a corrupt dictator of Formula 1 racing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ben_Sulayem
(obligatory /s)
Maybe their new friend, Al Qaida Jolani the headchopper’s influence?
Well they invariably are the US best friends.
Peh, copy cat
The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs… They don’t just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).
Well that is another reason why he is a copy cat. Even Biden sat on the golden throne but haven’t seen Trump’s photo there. He wants his own golden plated furniture.
His polling is wild and all over the place. He’s underwater, but so are the dems.
Tacky as hell. This administration has all the class and style of a Spirit Halloween store.
Spirit Halloween knows exactly what it is though. It’s not posing or putting on a front. It may not be Sperrys with flat front olive chinos, but it’s certainly not pretending to be anything but itself.
I could hear John Oliver while reading that.
How ya gonna do Spirit Halloween dirty like that
Hey, my Italian grandma liked this kinda shit! She… she also managed a Spirit Halloween store…
Americans have no taste
Dude has a gold fetish. Your president, america. Choke on it.
Fuck that is ugly
And the decor is awful too.
There’s a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the “architecture of fascism” the “art of awe” etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover
how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Even to this day, we have Wehraboos. If I am a historian and with plenty of time to research and make takedown videos on Nazism, which unfortunately i don’t have at the moment, I want to make videos on dispelling the myth of Nazi superiority and how they are given way too much credit.
Plenty of people do not realise that the Nazis are not different to third world dictatorships. Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn’t want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany’s excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany’s coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland and, to his own surprise, the Allies declared war. Hitler was trying to plunder the wealth of Poland to stave off another economic collapse, like how the previous annexations of Sudetenland and Austria gave them financial cash injection to go a little further.
Fact of the matter is that Hitler and the Nazis were lucky to have inherited strong institutions, namely the Prussian military culture, to have lasted longer than expected. All things considered, the Nazis were merely poor gamblers whose bluffs were eventually called out and ran out of cards. The Nazis were just winging it (I mean, he did not expect the Allies to declare war on him, and he admitted that the planned invasion of France through the Ardennes forest turns his stomach), which is not too different to other tyrants and dictators like Nero, Idi Amin and Muammar Ghadaffi who make decisions on emotions.
People of various inclinations should just stop giving too much credit to the Nazis. I suspect that the current right, with their mountains of cash support from oligarchs, possess the machinery to perpetuate the propaganda to re-normalise fascism. Nonetheless, the Nazis are inherently weak and incompetent. People say that the Thousand Year Reich may well have happened if they won, but objectively they will run out of money in ten years even if they conquered the entire world, because they are that corrupt and incompetent.
Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn’t want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany’s excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany’s coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland
This is why I’m convinced he will truly invade Canada and possibly Greenland. His economy is already fucked, and Canada has too many resources to leave alone.
through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Catholic Church has entered the chat.
Yeah. I know that the “Eagle Displayed” heraldry has been on the American coat of arms since before it became associated with the Nazis, but it’s still a little sinister how they seem to be leaning into it as a motif a lot more this year.
It’s the ultimate in bulletproof dogwhistles, because literally nobody can judge you for waving an American eagle around, and yet somehow it seems disproportionately popular amongst Neo Nazis…
Class vs cheep ass
“Daddy always said, you can’t by class, but you can watch people try”
I guess you meant to say ‘buy’
This seems to be a Daddy issue, clearly quoted verbatim 😏
Facts.
Keir Stürmer and Genocide Joe
classI mean fuck trump but you dont have to hand it to the pair genocidaire
Pretty sure the commenter was talking about the interior design
I read it as comparing bidens way of decorating vs trumps way, calling Biden classy. Most of the comments seem to dunk on Trump.
I doubt Biden had anything to do with the decorations, the fireplace and decoration were probably like that before he took office.
It does look like something was stolen from the fireplace in the biden picture, which is explained by trump’s loss
That’s a fair reading
They don’t care about genocide or anything that’s outside their navelstaring country.
Yesterday the libs complained about an anti-genocide post here bcs they used X.
The blue MAGA battle against red MAGA is way more important to them.
All they want is to go back to their bubble of ‘democracy’ where they keep the fascism for their foreign policy.
Lets make sure to note that the europeans aren’t any better. Plenty fedditors here with a superiority complex.
Thanks for your whataboutism.
If by ‘Europeans’ you mean our sell out US vasal governments and EU leaders then sure, they aren’t any better.
But that’s not the people.
Unlike the supporters of the fascist-lite wing of their uniparty perfectly willing to ignore this inconvenient genocide as long as they win.
So besides those 2 huge factions that form the bulk of your population there’s not much left is there?
So we aren’t as scummy as you all out of pure self-interest.
You can mislabel that as a superiority complex if that helps you sleep.Oh please, I am eur*pean and live in eur*pe. The people here are exactly like this. Our sell out US vassal goverments get cheered on loudly for throwing more and more public money into the US MIC to arm nazis in Ukraine, for cracking down on “antisemitism” (by silencing “antisemitic” jews e.g.). Thanks for being such a nice example of what I’m talking about.
We are owned by the US true, but it’s not like there is resistance against it. And we will have to answer for our crimes when our time comes.
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I dont know which part of Europe you’re in but there isn’t really any noticeable resistance to our support of the Occupation Regime Of West PAlestine here in germ*ny. Freedom protests get like a dozen people and thats it. Granted Genocidesmany is the most whipped dog right after TERF island but I’ve not heard any better news from any other so-called country. Some resistance in Greece to orowpean tourists, Lefty Italian football fans doing cool chants but thats pretty much it. The Freedom protests in Seppoland were way bigger with sit-ins at unis and everything.
Europe isn’t a country. You’re going to have to be more specific.
navelstaring subcontinent then.
That’s not being more specific.
There’s 47 countries in Europe. Each with its own foreign policy.
Saying “the europeans aren’t any better” makes no sense.
That’s like saying “the South Americans aren’t any better”, “the Africans aren’t any better” or “the Asians aren’t any better”.
Who are you talking about?
Wow, you really destroyed their point with semantics 🙄
Europe is not of the size of South America, Africa or Asia. Neither in land mass nor in amount of people. Talking about euro “culture” is as specific as talking about seppo “culture”, if not more so. I’m sure you’d have no problem talking about Indian culture, and they are even bigger than europe, with more diverse cultures.
This really is the American liberal in a nut shell: “at least our monstrous war criminal had class!”
Did… You not see the same picture we did?
Of course I did, I just don’t care. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s garish, and Biden wasn’t not a monster just because he was not garish
They why say anything? Don’t support child rapists.
I said something because I’m sick of liberals acting like being crass is worse than being child raping war criminal
Lol
Typo and you meant cheap?
No, that’s fake news. He didn’t make a typo, that’s just alternative spelling.
Oops!
