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senseandsensibility

(23,446 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:48 PM Saturday

You paid for that gold, suckers!

Yesterday at that "batshit" presser, trump also said this about the Oval Office: "You see the way this is looking. I can't tell you how much that gold costs. A lot of money. This beautiful office needed it."

As Timothy Burke said on bluesky: "we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say he wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large he can't even tell you how much it was" and it doesn't cause immediate national outrage."

And this was in addition to threatening to send the military to Chicago and other American cities. NYT, do you have any opinions on his state of mind or fitness for office? Just curious.

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Farmer-Rick

(11,954 posts)
11. He won't be taking anything with him when he returns to hell
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:43 PM
Saturday

I suspect he won't be able to take anything with him when he dies, not even all his stolen loot. No one ever has.

senseandsensibility

(23,446 posts)
7. I remember they claimed that at the beginning of the "redecoration"
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:56 PM
Saturday

but much more has been added since. And in trump's own words, I can't tell you have much it costs present tense.

WarGamer

(17,717 posts)
13. yup there is the infamous "Gold Guy" who has literally done work at M-A-L who now has items in the Oval
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:18 PM
Saturday

Tacky ass shit...

I understand historic interior design but in modern times it looks tacky to most folks.

BoRaGard

(7,085 posts)
6. Media needs to DEMAND the costs. That's public $
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:32 PM
Saturday

How much did the republicon golf cheat squander on his golden cage?

media is so tragically submissive.

Coolgoober

(145 posts)
8. Ross
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:58 PM
Saturday

I know people who decorate their houses entirely using items purchased at Ross Dress For Less. No judgement from me. But it looks like the Whitehouse (Trump) is using Ross to decorate the Oval Office. Seems kind of cheap to me.

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