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Am I nuts? (Original Post) PCIntern Sep 2020 OP
Hmmm...good observation. LuckyCharms Sep 2020 #1
Thank you. PCIntern Sep 2020 #3
It looks like a cheap Taj Mahal... Drunken Irishman Sep 2020 #2
Well, I'll be damned. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2020 #4
I think it's supposed to look like the Taj Mahal in India. Earthshine2 Sep 2020 #5
The domes are more Kremlinesque. PCIntern Sep 2020 #8
Yeah. Look at all those pimples and dimples! Earthshine2 Sep 2020 #13
Move the liquidation sign Dave in VA Sep 2020 #6
It looks more like the Kremlin than the Taj Mahal Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #7
The real one is lots older than Dimwit Donnie Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #9
His turrets look like pepper shakers. Baitball Blogger Sep 2020 #10
Imagine, a casino named after (and themed after) grumpyduck Sep 2020 #11
good point. i think it's a russian agent's idea of what the taj mahal looks like. unblock Sep 2020 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author BKDem Sep 2020 #14
The onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral and other Russian structures The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #15
Of course you're nuts. Hotler Sep 2020 #16
The Taj Mahal was set up when the Soviet Union was still around... brooklynite Sep 2020 #17
Is that the one that's gonna get blowed up soon? 2naSalit Sep 2020 #18
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2020 #19
I bet the secret Russian communication center is in those domes Blue Owl Sep 2020 #20
I'm thinking more similar to UAE where buildings have a lot of gold leaf.... KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2020 #21
Anybody here go that liquidation sale? Yavin4 Sep 2020 #22
It also looks like the Taj Mahal in India or a Saudi mosque Beringia Sep 2020 #23

Cirque du So-What

(25,812 posts)
7. It looks more like the Kremlin than the Taj Mahal
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:32 AM
Sep 2020

Perhaps the architect kept notes, some mentioning a gauche pest bastard with atrocious taste.

Backseat Driver

(4,339 posts)
9. The real one is lots older than Dimwit Donnie
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:32 AM
Sep 2020

and was built to honor a deceased wife - Think the "useful idiot" would do that?

Response to PCIntern (Original post)

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
15. The onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral and other Russian structures
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:38 AM
Sep 2020

might have been based on the domes found on buildings in Muslim countries, but the Taj Mahal casino was intended to look like the real Taj Mahal:



Of course Trump's version was cheap and cheesy, but any resemblance to the Kremlin would have been accidental, and only because both structures used similar designs, one possibly originating from the other.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
21. I'm thinking more similar to UAE where buildings have a lot of gold leaf....
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:32 AM
Sep 2020

EXCEPT tRump uses cheap Walmart gold spray paint.


Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Otherwise, you're just.......




KY........

Yavin4

(35,357 posts)
22. Anybody here go that liquidation sale?
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:35 AM
Sep 2020

Just imagine the cheap crap that you can own and put in your house!

Beringia

(4,314 posts)
23. It also looks like the Taj Mahal in India or a Saudi mosque
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:42 AM
Sep 2020

The lettering looks Arabic to me.


Sulaiman Al-Rajhi Mosque in Hail, Saudi Arabia


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