Trump Fake Gold Not Limited To His Toilet?

Trump’s obsession with gold is well-known. At times I think of him as the stupid version of the Bond film villain Goldfinger. ‘GoldLittleStubbyFinger?’ Anyway we’ve seen the pictures of his Trump Tower days posing in a room where everything was “gold” or gold colored. Furniture and the carpet for example. Then there’s the stories about a regular porcelain toilet not being good enough for Trumpty. HIS toilet had to be gold but not even Trump would foul an actual gold ‘throne’ so it’s widely been acknowledged as fake gold. Anyway in his second stint in the Oval Office Trump has gone batsh*t insane blinging it out. Or has he?

I’m sure you know the saying ‘All that glitters is gold’ and actual gold is striking to see. But it can be overdone as a decoration as we’ve seen in many examples that go back long before Donald Trump.  Trumpty is of the more is better school of thought.  Actually it’s more like an addiction. No amount is enough.  For Trump when it comes to gold it’s more, more more. Maybe from his party days in NYC discos he grooved to the tune of one-hit wonder Andrea True’s hit song with the same two phrases repeated over and over. The second which applies here is ‘More, more more, How do you like it How do you like it?” (Come to think of it she was an actual porn star back then, and the notoriety helped the song on the charts. Hey, this IS Trump we’re talking about.

Getting back on point, as I’ve indicated talk about Trump and gold but more importantly Trump and fake gold is old-hat. Hell, most of Trump is nothing more than a thinly veneered manufactured ‘brand’ so even if some of the stuff we’ve seen over the decades is actual gold one has to figure it’s only gold-plated. And NOT 24K either. At best 14K and where he can get away with it 10K gold plating. (His toilet perhaps?) Trump as I said has really blinged out the Oval and no doubt he’ll cram plenty more in. Alas, according to this article from The Mirror US indicates not all that glitters in Trump’s Oval Office is actual gold. In fact, not even thin gold veneer but just cheap big box home improvement store crap SPRAY PAINTED gold! From the linked article:

Donald Trump’s boast that he has turned the Oval Office into a “24 karat” spectacle has been spectacularly rubbished after sleuths discovered his decorations are knockoff $58 plastic moulds sprayed gold.

The president has repeatedly bragged that his White House redecoration was dripping in genuine gold. But eagle-eyed DIY enthusiasts have discovered the centrepiece wall coverings and fireplace fittings came not from a luxury design house, but from America’s answer to B&Q.

When bragging about all the gold he’s surrounded himself over the years Trump has insisted that no one has ever been able to create a paint that can pass muster as being real gold. I’m sure that’s b.s.  And lots of people are fooled by not all that great quality fake gold items. There’s even Fool’s Gold that’s been found in mines that’s convincing enough to get sucker investors to shell out big money for mining rights.  I for one have no trouble at all believing Trump, seeing something painted with a gold paint that looked like gold would try to pass it off as the real thing. Hey even a can of specialized spray paint is going to cost a lot less than even the thinnest of 14K gold plating.

Alas, sharp-eyed internet sleuths have been pointing out some of those gold fixtures in the Oval are nothing but cheap Home Depot decorations that have been painted gold. It was noted they cost less than sixty bucks. I don’t know what the paint cost but I do know this kind of crap is pure Trump.  And, as I’m sure you suspect reaction is coming in that will drive Trump up the freaking wall:

They found the so-called gold furniture was mass-produced Home Depot plastic. The revelation has sparked a wave of ridicule across social media.

One user on X sneered: “Petty is the idiot who adorned the Oval Office in gold, spray-painted, plastic Home Depot castings.”

Another piled on: “The only thing tackier than this is the stupid gold leaf overlay s— that they found at Home Depot and stuck on the walls of the Oval Office.” The mockery even moved into political debate.

How did a political element enter into this you ask? Well, here’s how:

When Trump’s controversial Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr hailed the president’s “commitment to Gold Standard Science,” one critic snapped back: “The only ‘gold standard’ I’ve seen is the tacky gold Home Depot bric-a-brac all over the Oval Office. The rest has been hotly disproven garbage science.”

That one will really chap Trump’s fat orange ass.  The man is just plain tacky when it comes to style and design. The harder he tries the worse he makes it. ETTD applies to the once unique status the Oval Office once held.  Someday all that gold, or rather “gold” will be removed but tons of godawful images of it, and world leaders meeting with Trump while surrounded by it will live on. I find that sad. On the other hand I find it funny as hell Trump got busted for slapping up a bunch of gold painted crap from Home Depot and getting caught.  Entertainment is where you find it and now Trump has to be terrified some news person will have their camera man, or even their cell phone recording a piece of this crap then using their fingernail or perhaps a pen to scrape away the paint. And POSTING the video!  One can hope.

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