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underpants

(189,861 posts)
6. It's not like he has policy papers to read. As I posted below
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 06:04 PM
Apr 3

Why does he sit in the Oval 🙄 with those thick 70's Holiday Inn curtains shut?

Is it the GOLD thing?
Is it supposed to be dark and foreboding?

He has no idea the power of that office. Using it that much cheapens it.

sop

(13,571 posts)
4. Trump threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Disney's DEI practices.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 05:57 PM
Apr 3

"I think they're going to be turned off" is a veiled threat, like a mob boss musing that a rival could be "eliminated." It's clear Trump also wants to end free speech in America: "MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t have a right to broadcast."



underpants

(189,861 posts)
5. Why does he sit in the Oval 🙄 with those thick 70's Holiday Inn curtains shut?
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 06:02 PM
Apr 3

Is it the GOLD thing?
Is it supposed to be dark and foreboding?

He has no idea the power of that office. Using it that much cheapens it.

drray23

(8,198 posts)
8. I think he fears being shot.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:26 PM
Apr 3

Does not want to give a line of sight to a sniper. Now, of course the white house surroundings are supposed to be protected but he may not fully trust it.

underpants

(189,861 posts)
11. I've had that thought too
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 06:41 AM
Apr 4

I first noticed it from pics of the cabinet meeting that Elon was at. DC is just up the road and that day was a glorious sunny day. I joked that it looked like a darkened lair (inside a volcano on an uncharted land) as a Bond villain like Elon seems to want. Was it to seem menacing like Trump’s mugshot? Or, was it because he was worried about someone taking a shot at him?

some_of_us_are_sane

(1,088 posts)
9. He loves the decor
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 08:57 PM
Apr 3

of a cheap House of Prostitution in old movies. Or............"The White House" by Cecil B. DeMille.

In fact, there are eerie comparisons of Trump and DemIlle.

These quotes about DeMille taken from a critique of the book, "Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art" :

"But in his vision of the Bible as an American frontier narrative he recast this old trend in American culture as a cinematic precursor of the “neoconservatism” of our own times...artist or hack, defender of freedom or a hypocritical opportunist who embraced the golden calf of sheer commercialism, he is a pervasive puzzle---a mirror of the larger puzzle and contradictions of America itself."


Trump has the taste of a Madam, and he's turned the White House into a brothel for his rich friends.
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