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Tommy Carcetti

(44,618 posts) Wed Aug 20, 2025, 06:26 PM Aug 2025

Trump installing a long row of gold framed portraits on the White House colonnade. [View all]

Aesthetically, portraits outdoors are a choice. Wouldn't weather have an impact on them?

The thick gold frames are even worse. But it certainly tracks with what we've seen from Trump so far.

Link to tweet

Here's the colonnade in happier times: When Obama and Biden took a jog down it:

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Trump installing a long row of gold framed portraits on the White House colonnade. [View all] Tommy Carcetti Aug 2025 OP

Makes the colonade look like a county courthouse. hedda_foil Aug 2025 #1

Are they all of himself? Ocelot II Aug 2025 #2

Probably all AI "artwork" newdeal2 Aug 2025 #5

Jefferson on the left, Washington on the right... ms liberty Aug 2025 #7

I'd be very surprised if Obama makes the cut. nt Tommy Carcetti Aug 2025 #10

Who wants to Bet! All white men! Bread and Circuses Aug 2025 #3

No doubt. n/t CousinIT Aug 2025 #8

How much will it cost to restore the WH back to Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #4

A LOT sakabatou Aug 2025 #9

Money is no object for whatever Trump wants. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #11

It should be condemned and The Wizard Aug 2025 #16

We need an exorcist. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #17

More shit we'll have to throw away. Emile Aug 2025 #6

He will take everything with him. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #13

If the fucker ever decides to leave. nt Tommy Carcetti Aug 2025 #14

I don't think he plans to leave. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #15

He won't be happy until every square inch of the WH Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #12

Theres going to be a lot of repair and removal from all this shit he has put on the walls in WH FloridaBlues Aug 2025 #18

I'm so tired of trump wiping his ass with the White House. (nt) Paladin Aug 2025 #19

I guess the stupid bastard has nothing better to do than supervise the hanging of pictures? PittBlue Aug 2025 #20