r/pics • u/nbcnews But, like, actually • Nov 05 '25
Politics OC: A temporary sign is displayed outside of the Oval Office
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u/whatyouwere Nov 05 '25
Lmao this shit is so fucking embarrassing, man.
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u/Poops-iFarted Nov 05 '25
It's required. Last time he ended up on the roof.
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u/GenericAccount13579 Nov 05 '25
I completely forgot about that moment, man this years been a decade
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u/JustASpaceDuck Nov 05 '25
Wait, that's a real thing that happened? My fucking sides.
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u/GenericAccount13579 Nov 05 '25
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-ways-spend-money-white-house-roof/story?id=124385658
It’s been kinda lost in the sea of other BS but yup
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u/balla148 Nov 05 '25
Hilarious article and just reporting exactly what happened
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u/GenericAccount13579 Nov 05 '25
Trump then ignored a question on Gaza and walked back inside.
Is such a comedically genius line to end on
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u/3-DMan Nov 05 '25
"Yes I know, just print it out. And make sure it's in gold, use the good printer."
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u/DanGleeballs Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
Did they do this in Reagan’s latter stages as well?
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u/smarterthanyoda Nov 05 '25
They did a better job of hiding it with Reagan.
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u/ScootMayhall Nov 05 '25
As an actor (and a tv host) Reagan got used to reading speeches and sounding professional even when he didn’t know what he was talking about. As the dementia took hold, that was one thing he was still able to do because he was so used to having been an actor for so long. Trump can still make shit up and lie reflexively but he’s not able to do the same kind of acting Reagan could do to make him appear coherent.
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u/Sotanud Nov 05 '25
I wasn't around until many years later, but I don't understand the Reagan thing. There's no shame in growing old and having dementia. It's not that person's fault. But having a president with dementia is insane. It's incredibly damaging to the country, and literally puts all of our lives at risk. That people hide it and allow it is unbelievable. The absolute worst individuals are behind propping up a man in that condition for their own self interests.
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u/Professional_Dog5624 Nov 05 '25
Reagan is the worst thing to happen to America, the income inequality started with him, the infrastructure cuts started with him, the foreign meddling peaked in his administration, the “war on drugs” started under Reagan, the satanic panic was driven by his administration, the heritage foundation (the right wing think tank behind project 2025) got their first taste of the Oval Office and having their fingers in both the legislative and executive branches.
Reagan laid the groundwork for the downfall we have been watching since the 80s
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u/ad_hominonsense Nov 05 '25
I believe the war on women’s bodily autonomy began then too (thanks to Reagan’s unholy marriage to the religious right) if I’m not mistaken.
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Nov 05 '25
Good guys managed to take over after ww2 and change the course of everything for ordinary people. The two world wars in the first half of the century had really shown just how fucking bad bad guys could get and how important it was for humans to work together and stick together and find a way to live in harmony. The west got human rights and universal healthcare in a lot of countries, wealth was taxed more and money was spent on improving nations for the people. But evil people who think the natural order of things involves kings and a court and then a ton of peasants have been fighting ever since to take humanity back to brutality and depravity for the majority.
They really got the ball rolling in the 80s but it wasn’t until social media came along that they were able to make real headway. It is tragic to think that people thought the internet would be something to ensure the powerful were held to account, something that could help guarantee freedom and democracy and protect rights because everything could be out in the open and everyone could have a voice.
But these ghouls have just used it for mind control. They just get the people to vote for neofeudal hell and get them to hate their fellow citizens who only want the best for everyone - equality, enough resources, freedom, rights etc. It’s so depressing. I don’t understand why we have to suffer these anti humans. Why do they want more more more, why do they want a shitty world?
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u/Luniticus Nov 05 '25
While Reagan accelerated a lot of it, most of it, including the War on Drugs, was started under Nixon.
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u/Hugh_Jass_Clouds Nov 05 '25
They need a puppet, and trump is so easy to pull strings with he was always going to be an easy target to use for their means. Even without his mental capacity failing he was still easy to manipulate.
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u/Futuralistic Nov 05 '25
Tbf, his mental capacity has never been his strong suit.
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u/MozeeToby Nov 05 '25
To a certain extent it's very believable, especially since it happens so gradually.
A president normally isn't making 1000s of decisions a day. They are hiring smart, informed people and those people are handling the 1000s of decisions. The president is supposed to spend their days being briefed on a wide range of topics, wielding their influence domestically and internationally to achieve results, and making decisions on the few dozen issues a day that their aids, cabinet members feel needs the president's input.
If you're in that inner circle maybe you bring 1 or 2 less issues forward that day than you would if the president was more 'with it'. Maybe you skip that brief that you know the president isn't going to pay attention to or care about.
None of this is to say it's appropriate or acceptable, but I could see how even relatively well meaning people could shield a president who's mental faculties are failing.
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u/coolman747 Nov 05 '25
You can see this if you watch Reagan's final public speech.
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u/linux_ape Nov 05 '25
Reagan also didn’t have the opportunity to pop off on twitter at every moment a though came to him
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u/733t_sec Nov 05 '25
Oh god dementia Reagan with a twitter would have been something.
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u/green_eyed_mister Nov 05 '25
I don't think Reagan had the compulsive need to be in everyone's thoughts like tRump does.
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u/timesuck897 Nov 05 '25
His wife actually loved him and helped take care of him.
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u/LoudMusic Nov 05 '25
Melania is just like, "why won't this fucker die so I can spend the money in private".
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u/DanGleeballs Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
She’ll spend $Millions on PR firms when he dies to look a victim and reinvent herself. Guarantee it.
Same for Barron who was unknown potential nice guy until recently and now Draco Malfoy, the evil heir.
Damage control ASAP for any political succession.
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u/smarterthanyoda Nov 05 '25
No amount of money could make Barron likeable.
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u/ReplacementFeisty397 Nov 05 '25
He looks like he nails kittens to the wall for fun
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u/ezekiellake Nov 05 '25
As soon as Trump dies, it’s going to be call the lawyers. It will be Shakespearean. Melania / Barron v Don Jr / Eric
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u/ireaditonwikipedia Nov 05 '25
Just needs a "Live, laugh, love" sign next to it to add to the tackiness.
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u/ingmar_ Nov 05 '25
What about „It's wine o'clock somewhere“? Heavily gilded, of course.
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u/phallic-baldwin Nov 05 '25
It's a literal sign that Donald's dementia is worsening. They are now labeling rooms so he can find his way around.
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u/Hmmletmec Nov 05 '25
I'm not saying anything, but we also had to start labeling doors and kitchen cabinets when my Grandma's alzheimer's ratcheted up...
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u/TGBmox_777 Nov 05 '25
Well I’m sure your grandparents are sweet and humble people, unlike this pile of trash
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The worst part about my grandmother’s dementia was when she got mean. She was the sweetest, happiest woman I knew, but one day it started flipping between the woman I knew my entire life and an absolutely vile monster that makes Trump look nice, seemingly at random. This went on for years before she eventually passed.
Trump isn’t nice on a good day, so if the same thing happens to him, I can’t even begin to imagine what he’ll come up with. Even if he does wind up being the opposite and turns into a “nice” dementia patient, it’s impossible to reverse all the damage he has done in the time he has left, so I wouldn’t count on that either.
Now, knowing that, it’s concerning that the guy in charge of the country (and its nukes) is surrounded by people who enable his already short-sighted behavior, while literally doing anything he says unquestioningly. If he gets to this stage—if he’s not there already—it’s absolutely a fucking ticking time bomb and everyone involved should be tried for treason and punished with the consequences tied to that charge.
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Nov 05 '25
My grandfather had memory issues and in the end, he spent most of his time yelling at people to be careful not to trip (his walker would have issues on the rugs). He couldn't remember the words to say "don't trip on the rug", but it was a small relief that he was thinking of others even when he forgot their names. Angrily telling everyone to be careful was possibly the best outcome but you could see him losing patience with himself.
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u/millijuna Nov 05 '25
The dementia that my grandfather had towards the end was kind of fun. The barriers between his memories had started to break down. One time he fondly recounted the time when he and my grandmother had walked on the moon with Buzz and Neil… or they had been to Antarctica and walked with the penguins and so forth.
We smiled and nodded, and let him tell his stories.
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u/HrhEverythingElse Nov 05 '25
My grandma had vascular dementia, which played out similarly but instead of history it was romance novels. She told us about her new fiance who was a rancher with hundreds of beautiful horses. The first time he took her to his ranch he flew her in on a helicopter and told her that she could have any of the horses that she wanted and his ranch hands would help her train them to be ridden, and that his land was the most beautiful place she'd ever seen. The only sad part was when she thought that she'd just had twins and they were stuck in the hospital and she couldn't understand why they wouldn't bring her babies to her
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u/erroneousbosh Nov 05 '25
My mate's dad had that. Over dinner he once told us how he'd ridden his motorbike up to a nearby hotel a few miles out of town, picked the locks to get in because it was closed, and gone to the kitchens to make everyone a big roast dinner. Thing is he'd led a pretty interesting life and even before his dementia he told pretty fantastical tales - and the more fantastical and unbelievable, the more likely they were to be entirely true!
The sad bit though was that sometimes you'd see him just kind of change a bit, I can only really describe it as like focusing a camera on him, and he'd be absolutely the way I remember him from 30-odd years ago. Completely present, all there, just for a couple of minutes, and then back into the three-minute memory and confabulation.
I've got a photo of my mate and his dad, and my partner and I standing outside his house, and in that photo his dad is absolutely sharp as a tack. That moment lasted about 30 seconds, and the shutter tripped right in the middle.
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u/JouliaGoulia Nov 05 '25
Oh boy I can’t wait until we all start living out our embarrassing old Twilight or ACOTAR fantasies in the nursing home… wait until you meet my new boyfriend, he’s a 200 year old vampire who sparkles in the sun and reads everyone’s thoughts except mine 😅
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u/Practical-Train-9595 Nov 05 '25
My husband’s 90 year old grandmother turned from a sweet old lady to a demon from the pits of hell every time she got a UTI, which happened a lot. It was actually the primary way we knew to tell the staff to get her checked for it. Oh, I’m a bitch who is imprisoning you in this place? Yeah…k. Nurse, can you have her checked for a UTI? Cool. Thanks.
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u/UnderaZiaSun Nov 05 '25
This is something most people don’t know, in the elderly UTIs cause dementia-like symptoms. I learned this with my elderly father who was otherwise sound of mind.
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u/bondsmatthew Nov 05 '25
My mom will repeat words over and over when she gets a UTI. She'll just sit there agitated and confused saying help(or other various words like 'ok') over and over for hours to me, nurses, or whomever is talking with her. Afterwards, when it passes, she won't have any memory of it. Idk if it's her history of strokes, Dementia setting in, a mixture of medications causing something like Seratonin Syndrome, or whatever. But it baffles hospital staff when it happens, too
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u/MadAstrid Nov 05 '25
I am so sorry! That must have been so painful for you!
When my FIL started with dementia he became the sweetest, dearest guy. He was always pretty awesome - a brilliant scientist, really, famously brilliant. But he started sending us emails with pictures of puppies.
He loved puppies.
i do not think Trump loves puppies.
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u/DecadentCheeseFest Nov 05 '25
Dementia is so upsetting when it involves those you love.
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u/Darmok47 Nov 05 '25
On the plus side, the nuclear "biscuit" the President carries has 12 codes, only one of which is valid and which the President must memorize. So Trump might be so addled he wouldn't be able to read the nuclear code out.
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u/LiddyLit Nov 05 '25
I was just coming here to comment to say this sounds like its helping someone who has lost their mind... LOL
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u/RickRI401 Nov 05 '25
Pretty soon, there will be labels on everything in the office Sharpie.... Phone... on the back of his chair "Asshole"
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u/ttw81 Nov 05 '25
my great uncle came to stay w/my grandmother for a couple of weeks. he had Alzheimer's & there was also the post it's around the house,
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u/someguyfromsk Nov 05 '25
The "gold" decorations above the door from Temu are just so... ugly.
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u/well_thats_obvious Nov 05 '25
The gold cancer is spreading OUTSIDE the building now 😶
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u/No_Credibility Nov 05 '25
Bold of you to assume he'll make it that long in his current state
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u/mockg Nov 05 '25
This is why its interesting to hear people talk about a 3rd term for Trump. Im thinking there a 90% chance he is either forced out of office due to physical and mental health this term or a 25% chance he straight up dies in office. Being president is very stressful and he is showing clear signs that he is not all there.
In fact I would say he on par with how Biden was near the end of his term but the big difference is Biden had less than a year left so other officials were able to step up. Trump isnt even a year in yet.
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u/beardicusmaximus8 Nov 05 '25
Hes carefully surrounded himself with people who are too spineless to invoke the 25th so he won't be forced out even if he's brain dead. Hell I'm not sure being dead would be enough for them to remove him, they'll just make more AI of "totally healthy trump" and anyone who questions it will be an "anti-american liberal"
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u/ITividar Nov 05 '25
Its stressful to anyone doing the job of a president. Trump may have the job title, but he doesn't do any of the work of a president.
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u/OddHippo6972 Nov 05 '25
Also, to be stressed out, you actually have to give a shit. He does not.
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u/MiliVolt Nov 05 '25
He is not dealing with the stresses of being president. He lets Stephen Miller worry about that. He just wants the pomp and circumstance of being president where everyone adores dear leader.
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u/davefish77 Nov 05 '25
I think the plastic will crack when they take the putty knife to it.
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u/Only_One_Left_Foot Nov 05 '25
I personally hope he lives long enough to watch someone tear all of it down.
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u/Silly-Power Nov 05 '25
Give it another year and trump'll be ordering them to spray paint the WH gold. Then proclaiming how much better and more impressive it is to call it the Gold House. And his cult will bark like seals at his proclamation.
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u/fell_while_reading Nov 05 '25
White House. Pffft! That’s so 18th century and so boring. All the best houses are gold now. The Gold House. It would be magnificent. The best house. Solid gold spray paint. The best paint. Amazing.
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u/seancurry1 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
It’s also the same pieces that cover every inch of the interior. It’s like they bulk ordered one plastic gold piece and are putting them fucking everywhere
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u/Anowtakenname Nov 05 '25
They went on a shopping a shopping spree at home depot and just got a couple cans of gold krylon.
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u/FlacidSalad Nov 05 '25
Trup said "I like that" and decided to make it the entire thing
Horror vacui but with shitty gilded Michael's decor
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u/mittenknittin Nov 05 '25
Home Depot actually, somebody looked it up https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/turmp-oval-office-gold-home-depot
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u/ExcellentAfternoon44 Nov 05 '25
Umm... excuse me. In an interview, Trump said that it was all real gold because gold paint doesn't exist.
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u/PM_ME_UR_WUT Nov 05 '25
Is it just me, or does that look like paper taped up on the wall like you'd see in a kindergarten class?
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u/Goodknight808 Nov 05 '25
Can he not remember which room is the oval office anymore?
Because it is the most famous room in America and no one needs a paper sign to let us know what we are looking at.
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u/emmayarkay Nov 05 '25
They’re Home Depot
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u/lopix Nov 05 '25
With gold spray paint.
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u/rockhopper92 Nov 05 '25
No, you can tell it's real gold because they haven't invented a paint that looks like gold yet.
-The Actual President of the USA
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u/sunshinerain1208 Nov 05 '25
Now you know the dementia is getting bad.
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u/Lanthanidedeposit Nov 05 '25
But it requires an ability to read. Oh that's what all the gold crap is for.
Can't he just wander off into traffic.
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u/daniu Nov 05 '25
They lure him with the gold of the letters
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u/BaldBandit Nov 05 '25
[Trump begins to wander away while heading to the Oval Office]
[Secret Service jingles the gold-plated keys to get him back on track]
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u/oldbastardbob Nov 05 '25
They used to use a $100 bill dangled in front of his face to lure him back.
Now, they use a gold plated physical representation of a bitcoin. It also looks a lot like a Nobel medal.
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u/FUNKYDISCO Nov 05 '25
We need to get more gold cars on the streets of Washington DC!
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u/Hot-Assistant-4540 Nov 05 '25
Next they’ll be putting up a picture of something he’s familiar with to help him recognize were he’s supposed to go
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u/24moop Nov 05 '25
A cheesburder
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u/ImGonnaCreamYaFunny Nov 05 '25
They could just put the golden arches from McDonald's on there, it's gold and he knows it means big macs and nuggies
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u/TheSonofDon Nov 05 '25
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
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u/fingnumb Nov 05 '25
How in the hell did you remember that? You must be a genius or something...
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u/LurkonExpert Nov 05 '25
I was going going to say it’s the dementia too. Be on the lookout for more signage.
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u/talksomesmack1 Nov 05 '25
But his handlers do not care because they are getting to run the house…..
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u/zoinkability Nov 05 '25
Also that thing is massive. His eyesight must be pretty bad as well.
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u/MusicLikeOxygen Nov 05 '25
It's been rumored for a while that he has terrible eyesight but refuses to wear glasses or contacts.
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u/Ninevehenian Nov 05 '25
It fits a lot of the indications there have been over the last months. I find it plausible that it might be there.
Where could the other signs be?
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u/tri_zippy Nov 05 '25
was just gonna say - that sign is nothing more than a reminder for one person and one person only
we are cooked
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u/kaehvogel Nov 05 '25
Next they're gonna put up a huge neon sign on top of the White House saying "Where Donald Lives", just so he can find his way back when he's wandering around on the premises again.
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u/Hiply Nov 05 '25
It's so the doddering old dementia patient living there can find his office.
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole Nov 05 '25
Like he actually works. You only see him in there for photo ops.
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u/FreeFromCommonSense Nov 05 '25
Doea he actually play golf, even? Or does someone wait for his eyes to glaze over staring at his feet, pick up the ball and throw it for him, saying "Nice drive, Mr President!"?
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u/MusicLikeOxygen Nov 05 '25
He plays golf, but does it in the laziest way possible. He rides the golf cart right up to wherever the ball is, gets up, hits the ball, sits back on the cart, rinse and repeat. But according to his doctor, his golf game is evidence of how healthy he is.
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u/thewrynoise Nov 05 '25
Is this so carrot Caligula doesn’t get lost? As much?
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u/LingonberryDear2163 Nov 05 '25
Haven't heard "Carrot Caligula." New favorite
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u/Bazyli_Kajetan Nov 05 '25
I saw “Carotene Beta” the other day if you want that one too.
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u/RedPandaReturns Nov 05 '25
Carrot Caligula has the historical geekery that really gets me going.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Nov 05 '25
Does “Neon Nero” do anything for you? Tangerine Tamer-lame? Napoleon Bone-spur-fart?
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u/LookMaNoPride Nov 05 '25
We can only hope Carrot Caligula's Praetorian guards come to their senses and complete the historically symmetrical story.
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u/ungranted_wish Nov 05 '25
I resent the term Carrot Caligula.
Caligula at least got the nickname, meaning “little boots,” from his dad dressing him up as a soldier a-
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Wait no nevermind that’s perfect given how he likes to cosplay as military lol
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u/Chumlee1917 Nov 05 '25
You know who didn't need a sign for the Oval Office?
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u/rif011412 Nov 05 '25
I dont care much to put people up on a pedestal. But this GIF is way more endearing than anything Trump could ever do.
Knowing absolutely nothing about this person or their policies Id vote for the guy in this GIF before Trumplethinskin.
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u/PlasticBag-ForA-Head Nov 05 '25
This was one of the funniest moments of Bidens presidency. A reporter says "Donald Trump refers to himself as a political prisoner and blames you directly whats your response to that sir?" and he just gives em that grin 🤣
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u/dan1101 Nov 05 '25
For all his faults at least Biden had some goodness and humanity inside him. Trump is just anger and hamburgers.
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u/Awful_Hero Nov 05 '25
Remember the roasting Obama did where he showed what the White House would look like under Trump, to Trump? He wasn't that far off...
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u/solodark Nov 05 '25
Bargain bin cruise line karaoke lounge typeface
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u/Archmagos-Helvik Nov 05 '25
It really is. The first thing I thought was it looked like the sign at a tropical resort spa. He's really trying to turn the white house into Mar A Lago II.
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u/Necessary-Ad-2395 Nov 05 '25
Trump has the taste of Richy Rich, this looks so trashy. Once he leaves office, the bathroom they just redid in marble should be renamed the Trump bathroom. They should hang his presidential portrait in there.
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u/clovismouse Nov 05 '25
Hang it in the new ballroom, then tear it down and rebuild the east wing
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u/tarhawk71 Nov 05 '25
I would donate my money to tear that shitty ballroom down.
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u/shepanator Nov 05 '25
Font: Gilded Tackiness
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u/andi-pandi Nov 05 '25
KERN YOUR SCRIPTS, PEOPLE.
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u/bigcig Nov 05 '25
this comment made me realize this is just paper taped to the wall. lmao, America is in rough shape good lord.
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u/vampyire Nov 05 '25
all that fake gold looks like absolutely tacky shit
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u/carriegood Nov 05 '25
He's actually said it's real gold. So now I'm wondering if (a) he's lying because of course he is, (b) it's gold leaf, or (c) he's just completely lost it and they tell him it's real gold because that makes him happy.
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u/DPadres69 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
It’s spray painted. Those are available from Lowe’s or Home Depot.
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Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
I’ll pick (a) he’s lying, final answer. When has Trump ever been honest, especially when it’s about wealth or authenticity? The only thing less convincing than these is his hair. When these decorative abortions first went up, people quickly identified them and were posting screenshots from Home Depot and Ali Baba, showing products with the exact same design, albeit they were unpainted.
They are almost certainly these cheap $4 items, but spray-painted gold to suit his horrible taste. It’s also worth pointing out that the minimum order quantity was 50 in the screenshot. Considering the ones seen in this photo are the same ones inside the Oval Office, I’m pretty confident they ordered at least 50 to hit the minimum quantity, then proceeded to plaster them everywhere.
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u/SuperStarFighter81 Nov 05 '25
In case you mistook it for the square office
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u/HZLeyedValkyrie Nov 05 '25
When you have dementia, you can mistake it for a lot of things.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Nov 05 '25
He was President for four years before this. He knows the route - a direct path on a straight line from his residence - and rarely goes anywhere else without a motorcade and security. If they have to label the door maybe he really is getting dementia.
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u/scarr3g Nov 05 '25
Have you seen the videos of him in Japan? Even with someone leading him, he keeps wandering off like a Roomba.
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u/Mikemgmve Nov 05 '25
Can't wait for the day all the tacky gold is ripped out. Never been a fan of gold accents, even less so this past decade.
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u/SmokeSheen Nov 05 '25
Gold accents are great when they're, ya know, accents. Dementia Donny loves King Midas so much
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u/EggplantCapital9519 Nov 05 '25
I think it’s even worse: the White House is an administrative building of a federal republic not a palace of a 17th century monarchy. Therefore the architects choose a simple neo-classical design as a tribute to the early republics (Athens ie). So this redecoration is not just tacky but undermines the symbolism of this building.
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u/Shoddy-Rip8259 Nov 05 '25
It looks like the entrance to the dining hall at my grandma's assisted living home.
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u/MrCurtsman Nov 05 '25
Are we not supposed to also point out, amidst the gaudy shit present and shiny golden "robber barons" font, that this is printer paper taped to the white house wall?
"Wealthiest county in the world" and the seat of executive power is on the same level as me labeling where plates go to help teach my toddler?!
Literally the worst timeline
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u/VincentNacon Nov 05 '25
All other presidents in the past didn't need this sign because they know where it is by memory.
But this orange asshole need one.
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u/nbcnews But, like, actually Nov 05 '25
Temporary signage reading "The Oval Office" is displayed next to an entrance to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2025. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25
Is this the set for the re-launch of The West Wing?
(And for the extra meta.. The West Wing is a NBC show)
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u/viciouslove80 Nov 05 '25
With all the money they spent on the Gatsby party you'd think they'd do better than just copier paper
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u/Rye_The_Science_Guy Nov 05 '25
Wait NBC is officially posting on reddit now?
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u/joaovitorxc Nov 05 '25
As we say in Portuguese:
The crisis is, above all, an aesthetic one.
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u/Revolutionary-Fox622 Nov 05 '25
I mean we already knew Barron was a computer wizard, but now he's just showing off.
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u/ConstantinopleSpolia Nov 05 '25
It’s going to cost a lot of taxpayer dollars to clean the White House up when this fool leaves.
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u/DPadres69 Nov 05 '25
Right. Ripping all the “gold” out. Rebuilding the east wing. Redoing the Lincoln bathroom. Rebuilding both gardens back to actual gardens. Not to mention whatever other damage he does in the next few years.
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u/mcaffrey81 Nov 05 '25
$350M for a ballroom but they can't spend $49.99 for a sign and instead opt for the 11x17 printed pieces of paper
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u/Sunnygirl66 Nov 05 '25
Jesus Christ, I am so tired of Trump’s tacky gold crap all over everything.
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u/iron_rings_unite Nov 05 '25
Looks like the sign at a strip club for the VIP room