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    Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol

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    I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like…

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    New money energy.

    I also didn’t notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.

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    Painting over a pedophile’s mistakes is going to be the theme in America for an entire generation.

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    What more proof do you need that a pee tape exists? That’s the aesthetic of someone with an insatiable golden shower fetish.

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      Clarification:

      The Pee Pee Tape purportedly shows Trump directing two underage prostitutes to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept on when they visited Moscow during his presidency. This amused him greatly. What went on beyond that with the underage prostitutes is unknown, but we already know that’s his type. Now we know the kinds of activities that he finds amusing.

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        That sounds like the kind of stuff his base would not only enthusiastically forgive, but even celebrate for triggering the libs.

        His advisors likely knows this, so when crawl around on all four to obey Putin, it’s not because his forced to but because he wants to.

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    Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east

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          Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = “simping for dictators”

          I’m increasingly convinced that liberals don’t even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you’re on.

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            When you read the description “dictator from the middle east” and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.

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                Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.

                The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it “designed by a dictator from the middle east” is about as bad of an insult as “designed by a king from europe”. It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

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                  It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

                  This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don’t believe in Western exceptionalism.

                  The reason looking at Trump’s ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they “look like a middle eastern dictator designed it” is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.

                  But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump’s gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism

                  Saying Trump’s design sense is “Like a middle eastern dictator” is very different from saying it’s “like a European king”. The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people’s the Global South.

                  Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I’m begging you people!

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    You could have decided not to turn up the saturation to make it look worse, as it looks already terrible…

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      Is it saturation or just room lighting? This could also just have been a different camera with different settings. Not like Trump hires competent people.

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        Look at the wall papers and chairs. The lower picture has saturation upped to the limit. But true, maybe that was the original photographer and not whoever assembled this meme.

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          I’m pretty sure the resolution of the lower picture is slightly higher.

          It’s hard to tell because the entire thing has been compressed and reuploaded but define details seem to be better in the bottom image.

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      The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs… They don’t just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).

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        Well that is another reason why he is a copy cat. Even Biden sat on the golden throne but haven’t seen Trump’s photo there. He wants his own golden plated furniture.