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Aug 30, 2025, 08:00 AM EDT
For decades, every president has made the Oval Office his own.
John F. Kennedy specially chose a rug in Harvard crimson, although he did not live to see its installation. Richard Nixons office featured a navy rug with gold stars, accented by gold curtains. Jimmy Carter surrounded himself with warmer, more natural shades. George H.W. Bush opted for powder blue as both a floor and window treatment.
The presidents have chosen different sofas, different coffee tables, different books for the shelves, different knick-knacks for the tables and paintings for the walls.
But none have had the aesthetic impact of President Donald Trump.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-gilding_n_68910956e4b06ab33893e975

SheilaAnn
(10,510 posts)LiberalArkie
(18,841 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)LiberalArkie
(18,841 posts)Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)All those rich powerful men want a luxury spot to rape children.
They don't want some shady dump decor.
They want to feel special, important, rich.
LiberalArkie
(18,841 posts)It is in this thread.
Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)Part of their serial rape protocol.
Surrounded by gold trash decor as they beat up and rape children.
This is why Trump tarts up his office in the WH.
Turns him on.
CatWoman
(80,100 posts)homegirl
(1,834 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(11,571 posts)What a tiny little fart in a windstorm.
Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,141 posts)
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,778 posts)I would have guessed he was a Michigan man but then it would have been a block M.
I know its part of the word album but that letter placement on his neck was perfect!
Marcuse
(8,656 posts)
johnnyfins
(2,741 posts)wcmagumba
(4,632 posts)
Ping Tung
(3,485 posts)something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
wcmagumba
(4,632 posts)
jmowreader
(52,638 posts)What Trump wants is Jon McNaughton Trump-as-superhero giclees.
Marcuse
(8,656 posts)
Irish_Dem
(73,711 posts)ms liberty
(10,507 posts)
4th
(391 posts)Or at least not as bad as that casino in New Jersey he owned that went bankrupt.
How does one bankrupt a casino anyway?
roamer65
(37,715 posts)Then u bankrupt it.
4th
(391 posts)And I do not believe it was money laundering, just straight up plunder.
roamer65
(37,715 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,260 posts)Some of us who lived and worked in NJ at the time may beg to differ.
mjvpi
(1,771 posts)Ul
tetedur
(1,316 posts)Uncle Joe
(63,018 posts)Thanks for the thread LiberalArkie
Snarkoleptic
(6,186 posts)Donnie is longing for the days when he could pedo around with Epstein.
LiberalArkie
(18,841 posts)andym
(6,032 posts)Bigerhalf
(31 posts)The theme song sticks in my mind.,,,,,, and fits perfectly.
Farmer-Rick
(12,003 posts)Little Putin has double gold eagles in every room. His bedroom and bathroom have as much gold as pedo Trump has in the oval office. Pedo Trump so wants to be like Putin he copies his weird decoration style.
RT Atlanta
(2,622 posts)to talk plainly and openly about having to fumigate the place (mix of Depends and stale McDonalds and 'old man smell') and removing the Saddam-aesthetic as an important gesture toward returning this place to 'the Peoples' House.'
PAMod
(943 posts)Maybe consider an exorcism.
CaptainTruth
(7,868 posts)Allow me to correct that last sentence:
"But none have defaced it with gaudy tacky tasteless two-bit dictator trashy decor as vile as President Donald Trump."
How's that?
3catwoman3
(27,576 posts)
CaptainTruth
(7,868 posts)
LudwigPastorius
(13,307 posts)
PAMod
(943 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,410 posts)NNadir
(36,476 posts)moondust
(21,007 posts)
Hekate
(99,206 posts)Brainfodder
(7,689 posts)Crazy loon level greed!!!??!!
Hekate
(99,206 posts)Cant remember who I stole that from, but to them
Doodley
(11,271 posts)who despise him. One, Vance, who previously compared Trump to Hitler, and two, Rubio, who previously defined Trump as a conman. As they say, all that glitters isn't gold.
Hekate
(99,206 posts)Diamond_Dog
(38,304 posts)chowder66
(11,202 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(168,991 posts)trump has turned the Oval Office is a very tacky and ugly place.
'Disturbing': Expert breaks down 'sheer garishness' of Trump's Oval Office makeover https://twp.ai/4imrIl
— Tuck The Frumpers (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T19:39:27.000Z
https://www.alternet.org/trump-oval-office-makeover
In a Friday essay for Slate, Grinnell College French professor David Harrison who also leads an organization focused on studying France observed how Trump is resembling Louis XIV (also known as "the Sun King"

He named interior designer Angelo Donghia as the brains behind styling Trump's Manhattan residence in the same vein as Versailles, which he noted the Duke de Saint-Simon famously criticized as "a masterpiece in bad taste." And he opined that Trump's favored style would not be looked upon favorably by most Americans. However, the French expert went on to suggest that beyond its monarchistic aesthetic, Trump's approach to decorating the Oval Office could also be seen as a reflection of how he views power.
"Along with the anti-royalist sentiment that used to characterize U.S. politics, I always assumed that most Americans had no real stomach for the hubris and sheer garishness that defined the style and surroundings of Frances most famous king," Harrison wrote. "More disturbing, of course, than the presidents taste is the administrations view of executive authority. This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIVs worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised ... Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels."
Vinca
(52,611 posts)He better have kept his tiny paws off the Resolute Desk. None of that faux gold crap on that.
LAS14
(15,301 posts)Michelle Goldberg was talking about it last night. Kitsch is simple, and fascism avoids complexity, subtlety, (I wish I could remember some of her other words.) Makes lots of sense.