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Why didn’t they just use the same cheap spray paint they used on the Oval Office adornments from Home Depot?

Marie Antoinette-ass administration. It can hardly get more cartoonish

Gross. But there's a gilders guild? Sure. Call it a "Studio". We all know.

Gilding the architecture of this nation seems girly. Wars were fought, men and women died to reach this point in our nation. That alone should weather our historical landscape, but Trump only sees what he values, glory undeserved, not very pretty for a veteran.

Disgusting, disrespectful, ugly

Wait until you see the lilies.

wasn't there an entire book of that ended with this guy who created giant golden calves to celebrate himself turning out not to be the good guy? I'm sure it's nothing

Revolting

Oh, thank god. This has been top of mind for me lately. Finally I can rest easy.

My old skeet remains evergreen... #MoreGoldShitBoys

"Great Gatsby: The Sequel" (apologies to Fitzgerald).

Spray Tan King

How is this shit so on the nose that any decent editor would laugh if it showed up as a plotline in a novel, and yet it's fucking real? We really are in a badly written simulation.

Do you think he knows he's fixing up representations of Valor and Sacrifice? Not Explosions and Murders?

#ETTD -- Everything Trump Touches Dies 🫠

Well I certainly wont be hiring ANY of these fascism enablers for my future gilding projects.

Nobody cares but himand his brain dead followers. Everyone sees a waste of money that could have been better spent elsewhere

Making Gilding Great Again

Tacky is as tacky does

Can't eat fake gold. Can't drive on fake gold. Can't pay medical bills with fake gold. Can't pay the mortgage with fake gold.

David rubenstein who created the Carlyle group, spent hundreds of millions of his own money to refurbish, museums and monuments in DC. And not one of them has his name on it.

Triumph of Grift

'Around the country' decoded = cheap foreign labor.

These pieces were massively restored in the 70s, & regilded then. Be interested in the most recent conservators report. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...

Gild this.

Hope the Gilders' Studio is as good at getting the stuff off as slathering it on. And so glad they intend to do so at their own expense.

When Trump finally gets locked up he'll want to be put in a 'gilded cage.'

Most NPS sites do not charge admission. The fees sent to DC go to those and some that don't turn a profit. Trump slashed employees at all the NPS sites, which were already way understaffed. The $12 million or whatever it really is for DC fountains etc. deducts from their aleady underfunded budgets.

We now live in the new Gilded Age. Literally.

Repulsive

So true. What's another few million dollars more--10 or so--after the nasty 40-million-dollar pergola desecrating the White House lawn.

It’s gonna cost a fortune tearing all this shit down.

Tacky asshole

Grotesque

This reminds of a story I read in a book once

Oh good, I had been so worried about the Arts of War sculptures remaining ungilded all this time. Whew.

They are bronze. You don’t “re-gild” bronze with gold. He lies about every little thing.

I can’t afford to fly to Hawaii but my tax dollars can afford to fly guys who apply gold leaf to DC for dear leader

Looks like crap.

Is Elon footing the bill for this?

They’re painting them, not gilding them. Cheap ass phony.

It's all about him. Be damned American people.

I'm no biblical scholar, but this seems like some profoundly antichrist shit

Waste by an abusive fraud.

Nothing Trump’s done was ever needed or even remotely discussed. He’s no idea of his actual job. His entire cabinet is a sick, unAmerican joke. He’s not the president. He just plays one (an abhorrent one) on TV.

Gavin Newsom said he would keep these atrocities if he were to be in power, that should end his political ambitions lmaoooo

What fund is he using for these vanity projects?

WTF?! What is this costing taxpayers?

gonna take a strong PSI pressure washer to get that off

That's gonna look terrible after being out in the elements for a time

He won’t be content until all of DC is covered in tacky shiny gold.

dictators love their gold as they believe it reflects their faces back to them

Unemployment is plummeting!!! (*gilders only)

Someone learned a new word today!

So f- ing sick of his gold.

Promises made. Promises kept.

But we can't afford universal healthcare 🫩 Are we great yet?

He makes everything he touches look cheap and vulgar. It will centuries to remove his stain on this country

Are there any lilies?

Sorry.

See everybody, he didn’t pocket *all* the money

Then I guess it will finally be time to #TaxTheBillionaires and especially #TaxtheTrillionaire.

He’s counting on everyone saying leave it because of the costs.

Worth it

This is disgusting. Money spent on gilding, while taken away from hungry people and sick people.

Has anybody in America ver heard about the Casamonica family????

Does this make your country great again?

He just throws gold shit at everything.

Is it removable?

Man muss Prioritäten setzen 👍

Make America Gild Again.

(something something golden idols bad something something)

If it's real gold, which I'm sure it is since he ain't paying for it, we need to turn it into something he'd despise. Every worthy person I can think of except Stephen Colbert would be an abomination to immortalize in gold, but perhaps there is a thing or an abstract sculpture that could work.

The last gilded age did not end well.

Fuck him for all of this …and there will be NO arch!!!!

So gross. So Russian. So “let them eat cake.” I’m tired, boss.

Gold will look nice with bird 💩 all over it. Freaking waste of money.

I forget... Which were the bad guys? Florin or Guilder?

Why do I feel another “no bid contract” article coming?

It had to be in shiny gold, what an eyesore.

No, but they ought to be gelded.

That’s what I thought. Such a tacky, little man.

I don't know what re-guilding means but apparently it's done by guilders and it's tacky.

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Wasting money He just wants to use up all the money before he dies So it’s OK to fly in people from another country as long as they’re working for him And it’s being paid by taxpayers

Meanwhile, at the grocery store and the gas pump.....

😩

They were gilded with gold when originally made in 1951. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...

They were gilded, yes. Notice he doesn’t mention the Arts of Peace statues. Doesn’t care about those.

They were bronze statues that were gilded. so yeah, re-gilding tracks

On Trillionaire Day! bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Do the gilders have large talons?" might have also been a good reply.

Ironically, the Union of Statue Ponies is very strong.

Hi

Did they get their money in front?

The Guilders Guild of Guild City have arrived to Guild.

Nope. Real gold, apparently.

It would have been so much more cost-effective just to polish the years of patina off the bronze and make them shiny again, but we know 47 has a fetish going. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvd3...

🇨🇦🇺🇦🤮Yet another example of Donald Trump’s ability to make everything he touches turn to shit. He’s not only turned the American federal government into the most corrupt & vulgar institution harming the American people but he furnishes it with this tacky gold crap. Bloody gross!

I wonder how long before it flakes off.

How much are these vanity projects costing us? Fraud. Waste. Abuse.

Turning DC into gaudy trash. He doesn’t own the f**king city! Or the White House, ffs!

How much is all this vanity-project activity costing us??????!!!!!!

ugh. This is not what we want or need.

I can’t afford electricity but sure, this is important

yes, give trump what he desires most: gold, just provide it in its liquid state

Someone should gild the Epstein files in gold, then he’d be happy to show them all.