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Oval Office crammed with new gold bling as Trump's Krazy Glue tube goes viral
The Gold Leaf PresidencyThe Point Is the PerformanceTrump’s Oval Office is becoming a props department for one man’s vanity. The reporting here is simple enough: he has kept adding gold cherubs, gilded mirrors, eagle statues, and decorative seals to the room, and according to a new book he has even been caught personally gluing gilded appliqués onto the mantel. The source material treats this like a spectacle. It is also an admission.This is not just taste. It is a theory of power. Trump is turning the most symbolically loaded room in the country into a set designed to flatter him, not a…
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