Look at what Trump has done to the Oval Office - it's even worse than we thought.

[Ocelot II]

Lots of photos here, along with some reassurance that the gold crap is easily removed.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-gilding_n_68910956e4b06ab33893e975

[lapfog_1]

1. A crude being

he is a thing without learning, curiosity, sophistication, or taste.

[dem4decades]

2. Actually, it's fitting that Trump's Oval Office looks like a whore house and failed casino.

[Ping Tung]

3. Post Trailer park Kitsch.

[Blues Heron]

4. Looks imperial Russian

[Historic NY]

5. Its going to take time to pry that form core crap off the walls....

[Ocelot II]

7. A crew with putty knives and spackle will be able to take care of it.

They'll have to repaint or paper the walls, but that's done pretty routinely anyhow. Maybe they'll let Trump take the gold arabesques and curlicues with him (if he's not, you know, dead), since no normal president would want to keep them. Even Vladimir Futon won't want them, although he might want some nice soft, fuzzy couches.

[milestogo]

6. The tacky president.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Vulgar and cheap.

No class at all.

[Generic Other]

9. He loves golden showers

DIY Bordello. Where’s Melania’s Stripper pole?

[marble falls]

10. He has blackout curtains over the Constitution! ...

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[doc03]

11. I saw the SOB on TV this morning with a gold fucking tie. Before he gets done

he may have the white house painted gold outside.

[tanyev]

12. Maybe comparisons to Louis XIV are more apt than Hitler or Mussolini.

Although I thought the Sun King was generally regarded as a competent ruler, vanity and excesses aside.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. It looks awful

As a poster above me said tacky & cheap.



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[hlthe2b]

14. I wonder if Trump even knows what the word "garish" means...

Probably no more than the word "boorish..." but damned if his face should not appear in Webster's next to the definition.

Oh, dear... There goes my blood pressure.

[Borogove]

15. Grotesque, just like the man himself.

[Wiz Imp]

16. How can anybody think that looks good? It's hideous.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. The tackification of the Oval Office

The Washington Post actually has an article on the tackification of the Oval Office a couple of months ago.

Curious about the tackification of the Oval Office, I skimmed the official White House photo feed. As it turns out, the gold elements in the room were added slowly, not all at once. Photos in my (free to read) newsletter.
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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) 2025-05-05T15:21:40.072Z

Link to tweet

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/

As I was writing it, I realized that a companion piece might be warranted. Among the less-important ways in which Trump is subverting tradition is his gaudy overhaul of the seat of American power: the Oval Office itself.

Consider this image, for example, showing Trump meeting with staff including his soon-to-be-former national security adviser Michael Waltz. It was taken on April 30, the day before Waltz’s ouster. Gold trim and appliqués are ubiquitous.


That photo prompted two questions. First, how different was it from the Oval Office during the Biden administration? Second, when did the change occur? My search for answers led me to official photos posted to the sharing site Flickr (remember Flickr?), where I learned that the answers to those questions were “very” and “slowly.”

Let’s start with the photo below, which shows President Joe Biden welcoming Brittney Griner’s wife to the Oval Office in 2022. Notice the doorway and bookshelves on the back wall. Neither has any visible gold.

....By early February, little splashes of gold started to appear. In the nooks above the bookshelves, gold vases were put on display. Some sort of gold figurine was placed above the door’s transom.


By late March, Trump was settling in. The pictures near Ronald Reagan’s portrait had changed. A portrait of Andrew Jackson and its brownish frame had been swapped out for a gilded one — and another portrait with a thick gold frame was crammed into a formerly empty space.

.....
You can see the full effect in the photo below, taken on April 10. But the “improvements” weren’t done yet. See those two brown chairs against the wall to Trump’s back? Notice that the wall behind them is unadorned.


By April 16, that space on the wainscoting (lots of architecture terminology today!) had also broken out in gilded hives.

[grockri]

18. No matter how rich you are,

You can always be white trash. And this orange asshole is white trash.

[ToxMarz]

19. Gold is lot like the color red

A little bit goes a LONG way, if you have any style. Some though use them to scream 'Look At Me!' because nothing else about them garners genuine interest.

[TygrBright]

20. I think it's entirely suitable. A whorehouse should LOOK like a whorehouse. n/t

[Ilsa]

21. Simple, modern stylish drspes become heavy, bright

brocades with as many valances they can squeeze on a curtain pole.

He turned his copy of the Declaration of Independence into a wall decoration, and it isn't even a focal point in the room! And what's up with the drapes over it? It's not a tv screen playing Epstein's pervy movies.

[Wild blueberry]

22. Gilded bordello

Surpasses Liberace, who at least could play the piano well.

[Texin]

23. I don't believe anyone has ever been such a tasteless, tacky vulgarian. The sheer garishness

of those plastic, spray painted overlays is staggering.