Trump Announces More Surprise White House Renovations — Removing ‘Totally Inappropriate’ Tile in Lincoln Bathroom
Children are starving and the president is focused on renovating white house bathrooms with gold fixtures. He is certainly following Nero's footsteps.
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He is turning it into Mar-a-Lago.
I get it, he wants to make it feel like home if he's gonna be living there for the rest of his life.
He won't be stepping down from this gig, he knows the consequences he'll have to face if he becomes a normal citizen again.
Much of the White House was decorated by Jackie Kennedy, and her husband ended up spending the rest of his life there, so maybe this will be the same thing...
I like the cut of your jib
yea I think it's mostly fear driving his every move nowadays. He probably wants to spend his last days as unbothered as possible
If we all try really hard, we can give him a bigly stroke. Hugely.
Like Cloud or Goku channeling the planet.
Trump even recently said it's "pretty clear" he can't run for a 3rd term.
Stop perpetuating this doomer nonsense.
He wouldn't be desperately trying to gerrymander states to keep Senate seats if he truly thought he was a king.
Authoritarianism only works when you get so emotionally beaten down that you acquiesce in advance.
It's not acquiescence, it's a warning and call to arms. Jan 6 shows us he will go to extreme measures to stay in power. I do not believe he will fail again.
He also said he'd never heard of Project 2025 - until he began to implement it. His supporters had been beating the drum for months.
He said he believed in states rights - until some states didn't tow his line.
He said he can't run for a third term, but has also said "that's a shame" and his cronies are beating that drum too "with a plan"
The gerrymandering is to lock in gop supremacy for once he's gone.
I'm more than happy to be proven wrong - hell, I really hope I am, but fool me once...
We all know that Trump's words are worth Zero.
Holy shit is that tacky.
Can you imagine the president having nothing better to do than golf, take pictures of the bathroom, and fuck children?
Ugh. I don't love the green, but that after picture is hideous.
No imagination needed.
Try to tell me this fuck isn't intending on staying past 2028. :/
He's been selling Trump 2028 merch for a while now. His new campaign slogan is "Rewrite the rules."
His old strategist Bannon said to The Economist just last week that Trump will serve a third term, and that their criteria for success is MAGA in control of every American institution, forever
No, not hyperbole, damn near exact quote
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngWEEvaMurw
It’s his forever home
lets hope so, but not for the reasons he would like to.
It isn't your fucking house asshole.
Hey that's right. It's our (taxpayer's) house. We should evict him.
Yes it is. No one is stopping him from anything. He could nuke the entire planet and he’d rule over rubble.
During Nixon's renovations he embedded so many bugs and wires in the walls it interfered with the structural integrity of the plaster.
So there's precedent for counter-surveillance scrubdowns.
But, that only happens if the WH is taken back from the dictator inside it.
Do a sustained emp while powering the place to sterilize the bugs?
Holy shit how fucked are are that this is even news. I hate this so much.
I hate when a stupid motherfucker is right because, outside the gold, the marble looks way fuckin better than that green.
To claim that marble and gold is somehow more era appropriate for Lincoln is pretty standard Trump-alternate-reality delusion fueled by narcissism.
I think the marble looks weird as fuck and would make the bathroom uncomfortable to be in, while the green tile is very pleasing and cozy, with nice accents
Gold is tacky as fuck and that dude wouldn't know good taste even if it was sold at the bottom of a ketchup bottle.
They both look pretty bad to be honest
Go figure, the fat fuck that wears a girdle and stilts and paints himself orange and has a vagina for a neck doesn't have good taste...
Maybe it's not even up to him to decide. Oh well. He did. Now we have more ugly. He makes everything smell like farts.
Agreed on all counts aside from 2.
The original had class and functionality, complete with datum lines and concealed lighting. It was aged, for sure, but the design comes together and looks comfortable.
The new one is literally just slabs of maybe real marble but i doubt it. There's no demarcation between floor and ceiling. It's as if someone just used the paint bucket tool and clicked fill. The lighting is atrocious; if you're in the bath you cop an eyeful of a glare bomb.
I'd take the original any day. Would have probably just added sheer curtains to the windows.
That kind of marble is pretty dated in 2025 too, it's 5-10 years overdone at this point.
I completely agree on 2, I think the green looked like ass and the marble is a significant improvement. I don't get his obsession with gold though, brushed nickel would've gone much better in there.
For a heterosexual man he sure seems preoccupied with interior design and his makeup.
He is also as terrible at both as the stereotypical heterosexual man.
And love for broadway and The Village People.
Guess he's really not planning to leave if he's doing this much redecorating.
And funding it privately iirc. 100% he is not planning to leave.
Trump spending his own money?
I can't say he wouldn't because he's never had any of his own.
But I think I can guess pretty accurately that even if he somehow earned a dollar completely on his own, he probably would still try and borrow from someone else first.
That certainly seems to fit more with the Trump I've seen so far. His spending his own money, especially on something semi-public would make no sense at all.
Sponsored by big tech. At least the ballroom is...
Their grovelling is embarrassing.
Cost of doing business. Sad times.
SNAP ends Tomorrow! I LOVE TRUMP!
-Poor Republicans!
Federal judges are forcing them to fund snap :)
GOOD thing Republicans LISTEN to Judges!
What a disgrace. He's tearing up history and smearing his gold flake feces all over the place.
He should be careful. A doddery old stroke victim with Alzheimer's could slip on all that polished marvel.
Lincoln's ghost will push a bitch.
The whole thing is coming down. You know it.
I'm sure the only thing they don't have an issue with is the name "white house".
Funny that. I bet there’s a press release soon: “we found structural damage in the WH” followed by a complete demolishment.
I hope he slips in there those rock edges look unforgiving enough to do the job
When he's done with all the renovations the white house is gonna be Epsteins Pedo Party Palace.
This administration does not have their priorities straight. Not paying employees, firing thousands of people, this obsession with gold. The end of USAID, so much more, it's just so disheartening.
He's not getting the damage deposit back
My big takeaway from these pictures is that one can take a shit by an unfrosted floor-to-ceiling window to the outside
Does he wipe looking out onto the gardens or facing inwards, giving onlookers a show?
The after pictures is like a Minecraft house where they just used the same blocks for everything and a gold fixtures mod.
This is how you make America great!!!!!!!!!!! Just non-stop winning! Fuck the kids and all humans in the borders. Food and healthcare are boring. A renovated bathroom, that’s amazing!!!
That’s cool, all of these temporary modifications to waste tax payers money with. His style is so awful, that any new president is going to change what he changed so they don’t barf everyday. I love seeing my tax dollars get wasted while we are all out here barely surviving. Our government has failed us ladies and gentlemen.
Even if it wasn't hideous, I wouldn't fault the next occupant with re-doing the whole thing on general principal.
But it is, in fact, hideous and tacky, as one would expect.
i hope there are plans for the east wing and his fucking ballroom is torn down on day 1.
A monumental rotating dining room certainly isn't beyond him. There's another wing to destroy after all.
and every surprise is guaranteed to be more surprising than the last!
Trump has no taste. If it is the most expensive then it is the most appropriate, but only if it's gold and white.
I was about to say "marble, lol. you can clearly see the tile pattern repeating in a mirror image along wall edges". But I grew suspicious so I looked it up. It's a technique called bookmatching. So, it's probably legit. It's also the most expensive kind of marble, of course, because that's what you do with taxpayer money you're entrusted to use responsibly as a servant of the nation. I'm losing my marbles
https://www.theverostone.com/post/vein-matching-and-bookmatching-explained-advanced-techniques-in-marble-design
That is impossible to read. The site I mean
Renovations should need to go through Congress. Fuck this. Need new oversight.
Statuary marble for the statutory rapist !
Does any one have photos over before the 1940s redo. Because I’m sure it didn’t look like thay
If the next The Hunger Games prequel needs more filming locations for Panem, this gaudy-ass bathroom would fit right in.
His brain is so far gone, he's gonna get trapped in the bathroom because he can't find the way out.
Edit fixed autocorrect mistakes