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We've had this item in the queue for a few weeks, and this seems like a good week to run with it. Recall when Donald Trump had the Oval Office redecorated by the person who was, apparently, the personal interior designer for Louis XIV? With all the golden frames, and vases, and wall hangings, and accents? Then, the White House made sure to circulate lots of photos of the new decor, so everyone could see how classy the current president is, as compared to ol' Scranton Joe.
The problem is that if you put photos out there, and dare people to take a long look, some people take you up on the offer. And so, Internet sleuths have reported that those golden onlays appear to be $58 specials from Home Depot that have merely been spray-painted to LOOK like they are made of gold.
Readers can examine the evidence for themselves:
It's possible that they're slightly different, but it's also possible they are not. Buzzfeed contacted the company that makes those ornaments for Home Depot, and a spokesperson diplomatically responded: "We work with several design firms in DC that have worked on the White House and believe these could be our onlays."
For Trump to amp up the gold in the Oval Office was certainly on-point for him. But amping up the gold in the Oval Office with fake gold would be even more on-point, right? As one eX-Twitter user observed:
Imagine running the free world and still decorating like a broke mobster's wife in Jersey. $58 Home Depot appliques in the Oval Office, spray-painted gold. Very on brand for Trump: cheap, fake and f***ing ugly.
Actually, now that we think about it, the most on-point thing of all would be for Trump to bling out the Oval Office with a bunch of fake-gold ornaments that cost $58 bucks plus a couple dollars' worth of spray paint, and then to turn around and charge the federal government $1,000 per ornament. If he did that, then the Oval Office really would feel homey and familiar to him.
In the end, Trump is either decorating with cheap onlays that are covered with a thin-layer of gold coloring, and we really are in a new Gilded Age (in every way), or else he's decorating with actual gold onlays that only LOOK like cheap, spray-painted Home Depot specials. Either way, not a great look. (Z)