I love that he’s destroying all of American civil religion
lmao looks like shit, like the cheap plastic “gold” figures in a dollar tree
missed opportunity to make the horse bob its head for maximum dollar store maneki neko vibes
But bigger much MUCH BIGGER
People have been talking a lot about Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp recently, i think it’s an anniversary or smth. And i gotta say, when somebody as loudly heteroperformative as Trump has not only fully embraced camp, but taken it to previously unknown levels, it has gone full circle from being an aesthetic avant garde to just being stupid kitsch again.
I officially declare camp dead. It is time to replace it with whatever nerdy pervert girl shit it is that autistic trans lesbians are doing as an aesthetic rn.
Excited to be here at the beginning of the age of Yu-Gi-Oh.
How much of that 5 million is materials cost and how much is contractor corruption?
It would be funny if he did the Statue of Liberty next.
Ugly ugly green. Very very ugly. I asked my guyz how can you make it gold. Gold and shiny. Shiny gold. I’m going to fix it.
Another 20 trillion to guilding the statue of liberty
In Fringe, isn’t the statue of Liberty in the alternate “evil” universe gold?
Is that Fringe a video game?
No, the tv show, but I was wrong, it’s just non-patina’d copper
Mamdani sends antifa mujahideen to protect the statue of liberty
It got titties now
The statue can be trans but we can’t. Make it make sense smh my head
cis men can take testosterone and be military members but trans men can’t
Wonder how hard it would be to chip some of it off and sell it for cash at a pawn shop
i’d guess not too hard, the reflecting pool liner job was hilariously bad after all
jesus I can’t even tell what it is anymore. great work, guys.
just aesthetically speaking, gold is cool and all to look at, but a little goes a long way.
i used to work for this bozo and he came from stupid money. his dad’s aethetic for interior decorating was all black leather and gold everything.
i just can’t take so much gold seriously. it’s like it’s trying so hard to say “im loaded af and totally secure” that my brain reads it as fake and cheapo. like when somebody is drenched in perfume/cologne, i read it as a warning that they are covering up something rancid.
all black leather and gold
I once happened upon a site with leather wall panels for people’s homes. It freaked me out. I had never seen that in fiction (a movie or a tv series) where the obscenely rich serial killer r*pist has that as his décor.
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Ninja edit
Leather walls with designs and/or gilding is actually a really old luxury trend. The palace at Versailles has leather walls in some rooms.
The palace at Versailles has leather walls in some rooms.
I was surprised for a few seconds. But then I realized that makes perfect sense.
Yeah, you’ll find leather walls in lots of robber baron mansions through the 20th century too. I remember seeing some at the Biltmore Estate.
Yeah, you’ll find leather walls in lots of robber baron mansions through the 20th century too.
Ah. I thought if a tech bro billionaire had floor to ceiling leather walls - it would be a new creepy thing. But it’s an old creepy thing and everything old is new again.
supremely weird. the most decadent wall cover i could imagine would be like back felt for a home theater walls to reduce light bounce and echos.
or like draped and layered fabric like i saw in a restaurant one time to make it feel quiet, cozy, warm, and private.
Imagine what we could have done with 5 million dollars. Imagine how many people could have been fed and housed with that. And it went to guilding this shitty fucking statue. God fucking damn it
Horse needs googly eyes
Lmao it hurts to look at it
You can barely make out any detail
It looks like they applied a GMod texture to it
For real, all I see is that classic source engine bloom
It looks like they applied a GMod texture to it
That reflective one that hurts to visually comprehend
should have thought of removing the patina from his ass crack too
I like to think he used the gold from his gold toilet for this.
I don’t know how many meth heads there are in Washington DC, but I’m sure they’ll be doing well after they scrape all the gold off of that thing.
I assume the “gold” job was done in the absolutely cheapest and absolutely dumbest way possible. Like - they used interior gold paint that’s not supposed to be used outside. And the gold stuff starts to fall off soon.
