The toilet chandelier

[bigtree]

Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis 34m
Here’s where some Top Secret national security documents were kept, next to the toilet at Mar-a-Lago. Special Prosecutor says Trump endangered US national security



...toilet chandeliered an entirely new crime.

But seriously, who among us hasn't dreamed of reading stolen secret documents by toilet chandelier light?

This is actually a perfect visual synopsis of Trump's world.

[nolabear]

1. Something about that cheap plastic trash can cracks me up.

And what does MNL Bathroom mean?

[malaise]

7. What about the cheap plastic shower curtain?

[nolabear]

10. IKR?? What is WRONG with these people?

I imagine chandeliers were original and all that plastic a cheapass add-on. Bet the corners are dirty.

[progressoid]

15. Yeah, that stuck out too!

WFT?

[panader0]

26. And the fecal mist. ( first read that term in a post by you a few years back)

[malaise]

28. Bwaaaah

This here is the definition of a shitstorm. 😀😀

[Wednesdays]

41. "Mist" in German

= "shit." So that fits.

[soldierant]

44. All my German is at least 60 years old -

I always heard it was "Scheiss."

[Wednesdays]

74. It is. But so is "Mist."

Just like we have multiple words for it...shit, crap, dung, kaka, poopoo, etc. They do, too.

In 1985, I was traveling on the Autobahn with my then girlfriend (who was from near Heidelberg), and she didn't watch where she was going and rammed into the back end of the car in front of us. The first word out of her mouth (a minister's daughter, mind you) was SCHEIST!!! (No one was hurt, but the bumpers on both cars had considerable dings.)

[pansypoo53219]

49. schiesse is shit.

co worker told me eissen schiesse un tolt. eat shit + die.

its the RUG in the bathroom. NO!

[Wednesdays]

75. See my reply #74 above. nt

[pansypoo53219]

97. but schiesse sounds poopier. fun when my 97yr old great aunt says hund schiesse.

[nolabear]

46. Mmmmmm...Play Misty for Me.

[Maru Kitteh]

51. dear malaise that was the FIRST thing I saw!

"Look at that tacky-ass shower curtain with the chandelier."


It's all so appropriate, somehow.

[malaise]

61. Yes indeed

Tacky is the word I’d use for the Slobfather.

[phylny]

62. THIS THIS THIS!

WHO? Who decorates using granite, a chandelier, and a freaking shower curtain?

Disclaimer: I have granite and quartz with glass shower doors in two of our bathrooms, but the basement bathroom DOES have a shower curtain, lest anyone think I'm dissing shower curtains. The basement bath, however, does NOT have a chandelier. I know better than to mix that shit together.

[malaise]

64. That is the point

Nothing against plastic shower curtains but - in your words-

Who decorates using granite, a chandelier, and a freaking shower curtain?
The Slobfather😀😀

[Kid Berwyn]

68. What about the cheap curtain rod?

“Expando,” like a certain Slobfather’s pant waistline?

[malaise]

71. Too funny

😀😀

[rsdsharp]

19. And the cheap sliding window. And the blue Kleenex box

on the marble sink. If that floor isn’t marble, I don’t want to know what the hell is on it.

[nolabear]

22. It reeks of cheap show. I'd love to know where that bathroom is.

They say the boxes were in his residence, which could well be a wing of the place with rooms no one goes to. But the tackiest most low rent parts are what people would actually use. Gives me the willies.

[mercuryblues]

34. Those fresh towels on the sink

tells me that bathroom is being used.

[GoCubsGo]

66. That white stuff looks like shredded toilet paper.

That bathroom is the stuff of nightmares. What a fucking dump!

[Niagara]

23. Lol! I noticed that too.

I thought that box read "MAL BEDROOM".



Perhaps Melania was suppose to help read the documents to trump since they're beyond his reading level.

[hatrack]

69. "Theese noo-kleeah veapons vill vaporahze Terry, uh, Tehran, un zen . . . "

[Niagara]

70. That was my 1st thought since their marriage is transactional.

hatrack! You're nearing your 22nd year anniversary here on DU!



I'm wishing you a Happy Anniversary early!

[Cha]

33. lol.. I had to go back and

look for it.. TY!

Big to discard Not Useful Docs?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

39. I think it's MAL Bathroom

Surely there is more than one though.

[niyad]

92. MAL bedroom

[SleeplessinSoCal]

94. sorry. my bad.

[llmart]

43. That's actually MAL for MaraLoco.

[LakeVermilion]

2. What a dump!

Sorry, but Mar-a-largo must be just filthy.

[mercuryblues]

31. All of his properties

have been cited for health code violations. They are absolutely filthy.

[LoisB]

3. That sure is a tacky bathroom. IMHO

[Siwsan]

4. One can only wonder what's behind that shower curtain

I wish I could say this is unbelievable.

[phylny]

63. Someone somewhere on TV said there were more boxes

behind the shower curtain.

[allegorical oracle]

65. Don't believe it's a shower curtain. It's hanging from a spring-tension rod that's been

used to support a quickie cover-up. If you look to the right top side of the curtain, there appears to be the tops of cardboard boxes. My theory is that the bathroom is poolside, likely easily overlooked. The shower was used to store doc boxes. Then, as pressure increased to produce the docs, more boxes were scooted into the bathroom. Wouldn't be surprised if an "Out of Order" sign was posted on the door.

[LuckyCharms]

5. I wouldn't be able to poop with that chandelier in my bathroom.

I'd be nervous it would fall on me, mid-poop.

[newdayneeded]

88. Pooping should be in a stress

free environment!

[LuckyCharms]

89. That's my dream, but I'm always on guard while pooping...

like an animal is.

It's instinct.

[newdayneeded]

95. I have a cat, so I always have an audience. lol

[LuckyCharms]

96. I hesitate to tell you this...

but your cat rates each poop performance.

Even though it look like he/she is just staring at the chandelier above the toilet.

[newdayneeded]

98. lol!

perfect 10s each time!

Have a great Monday!

[LuckyCharms]

99. You have a good day as well.

At my age, I'm lucky if I get a perfect 2.

Feel like I'm walking through the portal to hell every time I poop.

[Ocelot II]

6. Looks like the loo in a cheap brothel.

[wnylib]

80. Well, his grandfather did run a brothel.

But it was a shabby one at a gold mining camp. I guess Donny thought this was an upgrade on the family business.

[Spazito]

8. I agree...

this is the perfect image to describe trump's world...tacky, cheap and illegal.

[bigtree]

25. Beschloss

Link to tweet

[Spazito]

27. He certainly nails it...

contempt indeed.

[Brother Buzz]

9. When you can't differentiate between status and class, you end up with tacky

[usonian]

11. Now, I gotta get chandeliers for all my bathrooms.

Look closely.

MAL Bedroom on one box (whose handwriting with that sharpie?) AND

PRIDE on another.

This is why Mommas teach their sons not to be messy!
You never know who's going to visit your restroom.

[Solly Mack]

12. There are also more boxes in the shower. Look at the top of the curtain. More boxes.

[panader0]

13. good eye.

[Solly Mack]

16. It shouldn't be shocking to see how careless he was, but it still boggles the mind.

[IggleDuer]

14. The toilet isn't golden?

Horrors!

[Marcuse]

38. That's what he's embarrassed about - not the file boxes.

[wnylib]

83. But the TP holder looks like stainless steel.

Tsk, tsk. Shouldn't they match? Or did he run out of gold Rustoleum paint?

[Blue Owl]

17. So. Fucking. Tacky.

And unhygienic!!! Who stores things in a goddamned bathroom???

[rurallib]

18. I like a little reading material in the toilet

but that is a bit much ----

[lynintenn]

20. Marjorie Merriwether Post has to be turning in her grave.

[mcar]

21. Next to the cheap shower curtain

[Grasswire2]

24. I am concerned about the window.

What is outside? Any security of any kind?

Holy hell. Lots of foreign nationals work at and visit M A Lago.

[Pathwalker]

29. Imagine the faces of the FBI agents when they first saw that!

"OMG, now I've seen everything!"

[catbyte]

30. That tacky faux marble floor, too. I've always thought that they must've had their places

decorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp.

[Lonestarblue]

32. Once again, we see that Trump has absolutely no taste.

Tacky chandeliers and wall sconces, plastic trash bin, and cheap shower curtain—what a completely ugly bathroom for a completely ugly man.

[prodigitalson]

35. that's one for the history books*

*with the exception of Florida

[Warpy]

36. Guess you never watched any HGTV

I did in horrified amazement for 6 months or so, until I got sick of yuppies sniffing that they just never cooked, like it was something to be relegated to the lower orders, while demanding acres of granite and stainless steel, all garishly overlit with can lights.
I congratulated myself again on not being nuts enough to move all the way to California when I left Boston, and finally switched off.

Anyhow, the bathroom you could hold a dance in, lit by a chandelier, was also a common fixture.

My bathrrooms in Boston were poky and unheated. I didn't get it.

[Ilsa]

53. "The kitchen is dated; it'll have to be redone."

I swear, that is the most common line I've ever heard on that network. And it's usually a perfectly nice kitchen.

[Warpy]

59. I know. Meanwhile, I learned to cook and do it well

in some of the most god awful spaces crammed in as afterthoughts in Boston apartments, most of which were weird, anyway.

Rents have quadrupled since I lived there and I've looked up some of those apartments. Kitchens have been moved out of the 1920s, but they're still afterthoughts.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

81. Before COVID

The husband and I were looking at places to move to. Said I wanted true mid-century modern, not fake, not 'updated." So realtor took us to this utterly charming late 50s/early 60s home--really awesome place that would have been expensive back then, but was considered a "fixer-upper."

When we were going through the house, I kept waiting to see what needed fixing up. It had been kept in immaculate original condition.

"The kitchen is dated," the realtor warned, "So I'm sure you'll want to renovate that."

We went in and saw floating cabinets of mint green, yellow and white, built-in mint green ovens and cooktop, brick walls, built-in benches for the breakfast nook, a stepped down countertop near the breakfast area that could be used as a mini-desk, a pass-through to the dining room, mod-design vinyl tile floor in a deeper green with yellow geometrics--

I turned to the realtor and said, "I'll shoot anyone who tries to update this kitchen. Maybe the pipes need updating, but everything else--it has to stay."

We didn't buy it because I was diagnosed with cancer a few days later, and we weren't sure how costly that would prove.

But I wanted that house. I wanted it so bad I could have hurt someone to have it.

[Ilsa]

84. Ah, shucks! I hate that you didn't get it.

I'm glad that you focused on healing from cancer. though.

[BigmanPigman]

37. Proof you can't buy good taste.

What do you expect from an asshole who eats expensive steaks cooked to a crisp and served with ketchup. Oh yeah, that just wreaks of class...

Oh, and don't forget how he used Scotch tape and a stapler to secure his too long, red ties. Classy, dude, really classy.

[wnylib]

82. The ties - Did he really do that? OMG!

[BigmanPigman]

86. Yes, there are even photos.

When I made signs for anti-tRump rallies I stuck a piece of masking tape on the too long, red tie that I attached to my sign of tRump behind bars. I still have my signs "Traitor, Lock Him UP" which I kept knowing this national nightmare is not over.

https://images.app.goo.gl/BXR3Gce8gY8BSMvd6

https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-tie-scotch-tape-photo/

[wnylib]

91. For someone who has always wanted to be

more sophisticated than he is, I'd think that he would get a gold or diamond tie clip, ffs.

[Shermann]

40. Is contamination of classified documents with fecal matter also a crime?

That stuff gets spread around the bathroom, even on to your toothbrush (source: Mythbusters).

[dchill]

42. Just park it in the shitter.

[bee_peaceful]

45. A reflection of the problem

Note the reflection in the window- the shower/tub is full of these boxes!

[Sogo]

47. I want to swing from the chandelier....

[llmart]

48. Looking at this bathroom makes me feel like a Queen!

I just had my master bath completely redone a year ago and it's gorgeous. This imbecile has all the money in the world and this is a bathroom on his estate? I have a third bathroom in my place in the basement that the prior owners put in for their shiftless 50-year old son who lived in the basement and it's almost as horrid as this one, but not in a tacky way. It's just dark and blah which I don't mind at all because it's in the basement and no one ever uses it.

[meadowlander]

56. Me too.

You can't buy taste. Just did a bathroom remodel that probably cost less than the MAL chandelier by itself and it's 100x nicer. No 1930s Soviet apartment block vibe. As much as they obviously spent on the floor and basin top, they couldn't come up with anything better than white paint on the walls and the world's cheapest white plastic shower curtain? Or some kind of window treatment?

[Yavin4]

50. The Mar-a-Lago initiation fee is $200K

That's what you get for your money.

[fargone]

52. Is the shower piled full of boxes?

Look on either side of the chandelier

[Ilsa]

54. Possibly. Those boxes don't appear to be levitating!

How much shit did he steal, anyway?

[GoodRaisin]

60. Yes.

[UTUSN]

55. HAH!

[meadowlander]

57. Nothing says "man of the people" like reading nuclear secrets on the crapper by chandelier light.

[Blue Owl]

58. Bask in the plopulence

[honest.abe]

67. This photo is being posted everywhere with all sorts of crude jokes and hilarious comments.

This may be the single most effective image that will finally take the Idiot down.

[malaise]

72. For this thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17990815

[ThoughtCriminal]

73. The chandelier is just a distraction

from the even uglier wall sconce above the toilet.

[Kennah]

76. Lewis Black nailed it 10 years ago

https://www.cc.com/video/dlpw9d/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-back-in-black-trump-2012

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

77. What gets me is the window overlooking the loo

I mean, really, can you imagine sitting down to do your business and looking up to see a window cleaner looking back at you?

Put up some kind of window covering! Given how tacky the decor is, a velvet painting of Elvis wouldn't be out of place in there.

[Vinca]

78. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when a book was "tagged" because George

took it into the bathroom.

[RobinA]

79. Fugly Bathroom

no matter where you look. That’s what happens when you don’t pay your craftsmen.

[NowISeetheLight]

85. You Know

Looking at the chandelier, it looks pretty low. Like after you get up from the stool, after reading the SCI documents about nuclear stuff, you’d hit your head on it.

[Mossfern]

87. Judging by the placement of the window

it seems to be a basement bathroom.

[Emile]

90. I know three people who enjoy reading by toilet chandelier.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

93. A chandelier in the shitter

Now I've seen i all.