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'Gilded junk': Trump slapped with stark recession warning in seething analysis
Gold Paint, Empty WalletsThe Oval Office Is Not the EconomyThe reporting starts with Trump’s usual costume: gold everywhere, reality nowhere. But the gilding is the least important part. The actual story is not a White House aesthetic problem. It is an administration using spectacle to cover a worsening material situation while insisting the country is living through a “GOLDEN AGE.”That claim is not just false in tone. It is politically useful deceit. When the White House decorates itself like a casino chapel, the point is to invite attention upward, toward the performance, while ordinary…
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