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Botany

(77,323 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:59 AM Jul 2025

When you have absolutely no taste your office looks like this.




The golden eagle tables.

The White House has access to some of the finest art, sculptures, fabrics, furniture,
designers, and craftspeople in the world and it looks like they have gone to a yard sale
sale for some of their stuff. Those gold plated metal scroll things (filigrees) are really
bad. $20.00 for all of them @ a garage sale.
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When you have absolutely no taste your office looks like this. (Original Post) Botany Jul 2025 OP
Looks like a rich man's vision of a ho house. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #1
They are both locations markodochartaigh Jul 2025 #3
Everything has a price. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #4
I think that's because he's spent a lot of time in those 'ho' houses. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #40
That's what I think too. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #43
King Taco the Traitor: America's Goldbrick Kid Berwyn Jul 2025 #2
It needs more gilt and topless waitresses with bunny ears. And, a spiffy jukebox playing C&W. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #5
Surprised he didn't put gold on Churchill and MLK's busts newdeal2 Jul 2025 #6
I think the MLK bust has been removed Botany Jul 2025 #8
It's still there. You can see it on the left side of the photo. newdeal2 Jul 2025 #9
That picture is 3 months old Botany Jul 2025 #10
I see. Didn't notice the date at first, thanks nt newdeal2 Jul 2025 #11
And it's still F**king ugly! usaf-vet Jul 2025 #42
Cement's pond's out back Torchlight Jul 2025 #7
GAAAAAAACK! Jilly_in_VA Jul 2025 #12
I believe some of those golf trophies on the mantle are from "championships" he "won" @ his own courses. Botany Jul 2025 #13
What an absolute dump. Paladin Jul 2025 #14
A true example Mossfern Jul 2025 #41
Who combed it over best? Mblaze Jul 2025 #15
Hey, it just reflects the current occupant. BeneteauBum Jul 2025 #16
But but but ... a "king" simply MUST surround himself with gold. calimary Jul 2025 #17
Surround himself? Traildogbob Jul 2025 #30
I keep hearing the StormTroopers March when I look at that room irisblue Jul 2025 #18
John Williams writes (composes) the best music zeusdogmom Jul 2025 #34
Your welcome. I am sure those muscians felt no pressure at all that day irisblue Jul 2025 #38
Can you imagine being in the orchestra under the direction of John Williams? zeusdogmom Jul 2025 #58
Those eagles look like Harpy eagles.... MiHale Jul 2025 #19
Agree. Also, look like griffons or vultures. yorkster Jul 2025 #35
Lots of great Eagle art and those tables are just God awful. Botany Jul 2025 #52
Whore House decor Historic NY Jul 2025 #20
Yup Botany Jul 2025 #54
That's really fitting in with the Tree Lady Jul 2025 #21
It began with the Golden Toilet Wicked Blue Jul 2025 #22
I would not be surprised to see the painting of Washington replaced with a velvet painting of Elvis. kentuck Jul 2025 #23
It'd make Muammar Gaddafi happy tishaLA Jul 2025 #24
In one of his many ramblings, he mentioned he wanted to change the drapes to gold ones but Bev54 Jul 2025 #25
The color of his head is jarring. chowder66 Jul 2025 #26
What I would give to have someone say "This place looks like absolute shit" on live television Hong Kong Cavalier Jul 2025 #27
I can't wait to watch the next administration SARose Jul 2025 #28
Krasnov has seen the Kremlin. SergeStorms Jul 2025 #29
He's a 12 year old. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2025 #31
Allegedly, the wall accents are available through Home Depot Docreed2003 Jul 2025 #32
And knockoff Home Dept at that. marble falls Jul 2025 #47
I've seen Greek restaurants more understated underpants Jul 2025 #33
Like a French Whorehouse no_hypocrisy Jul 2025 #36
Long story: A New Orleans sporting house AverageOldGuy Jul 2025 #37
And he paved over the Rose Garden. thucythucy Jul 2025 #39
Amen to that Peacetrain Jul 2025 #48
That alone would be enough to condemn him. marble falls Jul 2025 #49
A cheap, off the strip casino/brothel transplanted to DC appleannie1 Jul 2025 #44
The Temu White House. FSogol Jul 2025 #45
Pier 1 was a major contributor. They scoured their warehaouses and donated it. marble falls Jul 2025 #46
Talk about gaudy and tasteless kimbutgar Jul 2025 #50
The House of the Rising Sun. Permanut Jul 2025 #51
So those hideous things are eagles? DET Jul 2025 #53
Are those "participation" trophies behind him? bif Jul 2025 #55
The internet rumor is that some are from winning a golf tournament @ his own properties. Botany Jul 2025 #56
Needs a snazzy, flamboyant grand piano pacalo Jul 2025 #57

Kid Berwyn

(24,395 posts)
2. King Taco the Traitor: America's Goldbrick
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:12 AM
Jul 2025
gold-brick(n.)

"gold in the form of a brick," 1853, from gold (adj.) + brick (n.). Meaning "shirker" is from 1914, World War I armed forces slang, from earlier verb meaning "to swindle, cheat" (1902) from the old con game of selling spurious "gold" bricks (attested by 1881).

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gold-brick

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
5. It needs more gilt and topless waitresses with bunny ears. And, a spiffy jukebox playing C&W.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:18 AM
Jul 2025

Torchlight

(6,830 posts)
7. Cement's pond's out back
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:22 AM
Jul 2025

where they celebrate Cruz's recent vacation with day-old Big Macs

Botany

(77,323 posts)
13. I believe some of those golf trophies on the mantle are from "championships" he "won" @ his own courses.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:11 AM
Jul 2025

Klassy with a K.

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
14. What an absolute dump.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:14 AM
Jul 2025

trump is every bit as good at decorating as he is at telling the truth.

calimary

(90,021 posts)
17. But but but ... a "king" simply MUST surround himself with gold.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:20 AM
Jul 2025

Gold EVERYTHING, from gewgaws and picture frames to the upholstery of the royal chairs he can sit his royal ass down upon. I’m surprised he doesn’t make the press people dress in gold so that’s all he ever has to see.

Now I understand why he’s moved heaven and earth for years to make sure that whatever hair he still has on his head can look the part, too.

Traildogbob

(13,018 posts)
30. Surround himself?
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:52 AM
Jul 2025

He paints his face gold everyday.
Ask Stormy if he has gold plated his mushroom?

zeusdogmom

(1,141 posts)
34. John Williams writes (composes) the best music
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:04 PM
Jul 2025

Never get tired of listening to or even better playing his music.

The video made me smile. Thank you for posting it.

zeusdogmom

(1,141 posts)
58. Can you imagine being in the orchestra under the direction of John Williams?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 06:36 PM
Jul 2025

As a life long clarinet player I would be in absolute heaven. To be honest, I would be in sheer terror of playing the wrong note, but still to play his music under his direction 🥰

MiHale

(13,032 posts)
19. Those eagles look like Harpy eagles....
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:32 AM
Jul 2025

Nasty bird. I’ve never seen a Bald eagle that looks like those do. We have eagles flying all around us.

Tree Lady

(13,282 posts)
21. That's really fitting in with the
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:42 AM
Jul 2025

American people shoving riches and gold in their face like a old time ruler with a kingdom of peasants.

Wicked Blue

(8,867 posts)
22. It began with the Golden Toilet
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:42 AM
Jul 2025

and now everything King Minus touches turns to fool's gold.

kentuck

(115,406 posts)
23. I would not be surprised to see the painting of Washington replaced with a velvet painting of Elvis.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:45 AM
Jul 2025

Welcome to his world!

tishaLA

(14,777 posts)
24. It'd make Muammar Gaddafi happy
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:46 AM
Jul 2025

It's the same level of garishness as any random authorization in a developing country.

Bev54

(13,431 posts)
25. In one of his many ramblings, he mentioned he wanted to change the drapes to gold ones but
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:46 AM
Jul 2025

was having trouble finding the exact colour of gold. This is certainly vomit inducing already.

Hong Kong Cavalier

(4,607 posts)
27. What I would give to have someone say "This place looks like absolute shit" on live television
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:50 AM
Jul 2025

in front of him...

SARose

(1,831 posts)
28. I can't wait to watch the next administration
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jul 2025

Scrape this mess off the walls. I want to see it all dumped on the ninth hole at Mar-A-Largo. Televised!

SergeStorms

(20,591 posts)
29. Krasnov has seen the Kremlin.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jul 2025

Trump covets. That's his raison d'etre. Whether it's women, golf courses, buildings, money or gold, he wants what others have. This is his mind-scrambling version of Putin's palace.
Maybe we should be thankful Melanoma didn't decorate, because she would have had it bulldozed and covered in cement. That's her vision of wealthy-chic.

Docreed2003

(18,714 posts)
32. Allegedly, the wall accents are available through Home Depot
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:58 AM
Jul 2025


Makes sense if you're the White House design team. Slap some 3M tape on the back and it won't damage the actual walls and fireplace and can be easily removed for the next occupant

AverageOldGuy

(3,835 posts)
37. Long story: A New Orleans sporting house
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:20 PM
Jul 2025

My family is from rural SW Mississippi-SE Louisiana. As with any family -- especially Southern families -- we have or share and them some of colorful characters.

In 1870, one of my very distant cousins married another of my very distant cousins, they lived in New Orleans and had six children.

She died in 1880. He moved in with his girlfriend, who was the proprietress of a well-known New Orleans sporting house. In 1890, he shot and killed one of her other close gentlemen friends and fled to SW Mississippi, where his mother was living with one of her daughters and son-in-law.

In 1883, the mother -- aghast at her grandchildren living in a New Orleans whorehouse --went to New Orleans and removed the six children to her home in rural SW Mississippi.

As time moved on and the New Orleans sporting houses closed, a few of them and their furnishings were saved and today are part of a New Orleans museum.

Trump's decoration of the Oval Office could easily be mistaken for a New Orleans whorehouse circa 1880. Seems fitting somehow.

https://maggiemcneill.com/2011/02/08/josie-arlington/

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
50. Talk about gaudy and tasteless
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 01:44 PM
Jul 2025

My Mother used to say that people who over decorate like this are insecure who want to prove they are rich and smart.

DET

(2,499 posts)
53. So those hideous things are eagles?
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 02:30 PM
Jul 2025

I thought they were flying monkeys. Might as well be, I guess.

Botany

(77,323 posts)
56. The internet rumor is that some are from winning a golf tournament @ his own properties.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 04:44 PM
Jul 2025

He would be the first to play a round on a new course and then he would claim to
“have set the course record.”

pacalo

(24,857 posts)
57. Needs a snazzy, flamboyant grand piano
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 05:13 PM
Jul 2025

with a couple of garishly golden candelabras; and the grifter needs a garish cape to match his surroundings as well.

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