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If you've ever wondered what Mar Lago looks like inside..... (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Apr 2025 OP
Well, I won't (hold back). It is as crass & vulgar as his Trump Tower monstrosity... hlthe2b Apr 2025 #1
It really is a beautiful building with some amazing interior spaces. Wildly overdone, for sure, but in a style..... FadedMullet Apr 2025 #2
No, I've never wondered. Never will. n/t elocs Apr 2025 #3
Tacky. badhair77 Apr 2025 #4
It ain't Tuxedo Park . . . . no_hypocrisy Apr 2025 #5
Gaudy as fuck Blue Owl Apr 2025 #6
I feel for the staff who has to keep the place clean and dusted zeusdogmom Apr 2025 #7
"I don't care. Do you? onethatcares Apr 2025 #8
A faux-Baroque nightmare Torchlight Apr 2025 #9
Abomidecor. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2025 #17
Nope. Never wondered NewHendoLib Apr 2025 #10
Lifestyles of the Disgustingly Rich and Heinous lame54 Apr 2025 #11
That should be a new show 😹 Meowmee Apr 2025 #13
That's very clever! 3catwoman3 Apr 2025 #26
If there were any decent people living there, they left during first term. Silent Type Apr 2025 #12
If it's the color of piss, Trump loves it. Emile Apr 2025 #14
Soooooo ugly Trueblue1968 Apr 2025 #15
Tawdry and over the top. Laffy Kat Apr 2025 #16
Is that the set where the Adams Family was shot? nt Jit423 Apr 2025 #18
Vile. BigDemVoter Apr 2025 #19
It would never have been a tourist attraction, anywhere GenThePerservering Apr 2025 #20
True: the Baroque stuff doesn't have the right proportion to it the way true Baroque does. fierywoman Apr 2025 #30
I Know Nothing RobinA Apr 2025 #33
I wonder if this is Melania's doing. LAS14 Apr 2025 #21
Hearst Castle isn't even that bad in comparison. Xolodno Apr 2025 #22
What a godawful eyesore. valleyrogue Apr 2025 #23
1980s gaudy garrish. Baitball Blogger Apr 2025 #24
So did Trump buy this RazorbackExpat Apr 2025 #25
Exactly what a person with no taste thinks is "high class." MIButterfly Apr 2025 #27
It looks like the film set for What We Do In The Shadows mahina Apr 2025 #28
It looks like they spent a million dollars at Sears. mahina Apr 2025 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author bamagal62 Apr 2025 #31
ludicrous portrait of drumph. pansypoo53219 Apr 2025 #32
What I remember hearing is there is a family crest over the fireplace belonging to wealthy woman who originally built it Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 #34

FadedMullet

(604 posts)
2. It really is a beautiful building with some amazing interior spaces. Wildly overdone, for sure, but in a style.....
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 04:25 PM
Apr 2025

.......of the times, opulent and grandiose. It's the fact that Trump owns it and has hung his idiotic portrait in the home that renders it so objectionable. If it was in Italy it would be a tourist attraction.

zeusdogmom

(1,121 posts)
7. I feel for the staff who has to keep the place clean and dusted
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 04:30 PM
Apr 2025

What a grotesquely ugly place

BigDemVoter

(4,672 posts)
19. Vile.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 07:04 PM
Apr 2025

Just what I had expected. It kind of reminded me of Belle Watling's place in "Gone With the Wind." I guess it is no surprise that Melania lives there.

GenThePerservering

(3,146 posts)
20. It would never have been a tourist attraction, anywhere
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 08:03 PM
Apr 2025

There's a big difference between "real" baroque and this fake stuff. It's obvious in the clash of design and purpose. The baroque had an over-the-top vibe that we might find cluttered today, but it harmonized.

This is just throwing everything shiny together whether it fits or not. And every.single.room.

RobinA

(10,464 posts)
33. I Know Nothing
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:01 PM
Apr 2025

about home decor or various styles, but I agree with your take. I happen to like baroque, but this ain't it. I couldn't say why, but I think you hit it.

LAS14

(15,451 posts)
21. I wonder if this is Melania's doing.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 08:06 PM
Apr 2025

My Romanian daughter-in-law has a fondness for elaborate furniture and decorations. Doesn't have the Trumps' budget, of course.

Xolodno

(7,283 posts)
22. Hearst Castle isn't even that bad in comparison.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 09:55 PM
Apr 2025

Hearst decorated his house with museum pieces from his collection. This is just...a cheap knock off with no sense of history or taste. It's "tell me how much of tasteless trust fund kid you are without telling me".

valleyrogue

(2,512 posts)
23. What a godawful eyesore.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 10:24 PM
Apr 2025

Who could possibly think that decor is beautiful? It is way too ostentatious, a monument to bad taste.

MIButterfly

(1,810 posts)
27. Exactly what a person with no taste thinks is "high class."
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 11:50 PM
Apr 2025

I have to say, though, it isn't as tacky as Ivana's townhouse. Close, but not quite. I saw pictures of it online when it was for sale (I don’t know if it still is) and yikes!

Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Rhiannon12866

(248,768 posts)
34. What I remember hearing is there is a family crest over the fireplace belonging to wealthy woman who originally built it
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:57 AM
Apr 2025

And not only did TFG steal that crest for himself, but he changed the word at the top of the crest from "Integrity" (in Latin) to the word "Trump."

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