In Gaudy We Trust: Trump Issues Exec Order Mandating Classical Architecture On Fed Buildings

More than 300,000 Americans killed in the raging coronavirus pandemic. Hospital systems buckling and overwhelmed. Widespread economic devastation. And what is President Trump focused on this week? An executive order “promoting beautiful federal civic architecture.”


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Eyes on the prize, Donnie.

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With so many crises demanding his short attention span, he will next focus his considerable talents on interior decorating, signing an executive order mandating all federal buildings be distastefully appointed in dictator chic.

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Just dropped by to say WTF?

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Two words:

Golden showerheads.

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In recent days, we’ve gone from toilet flushing to décor. What’s next, McDonald’s as required menu items for school lunches?

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Non, non, Monsieur. “Louis the Hotel” — magnifique!

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Courtesy of Paul Krugman.

Me: He’ll go sedated and strapped to a gurney!

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Is this a joke? Please tell me this is a joke

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Superflush toilets that don’t require 15 flushes that can flush small children and dogs.

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Beginning to believe that. Powell and Flynn seemingly are able to manipulate and exploit him better than his traditional sycophants. Makes me wonder if there is any friction between those two and his own children. He is acting like a little old man who cannot really make his own decisions anymore.

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Are those fans of a kind of of B&D foreplay or a bathroom accessory?
With Donnie, it could be either.

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Albert Speer is so happy.

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Related. He’s really into architecture and design. But he has no talent for anything! Nothing! He has no marketable skills! He is an empty sack of skin and fat.

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You just can’t make this s**t up. I am wondering if this latest EO will hold up to the future.

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All commentary about the silliness of this Executive Order is valid. But do want to point out that dictators (Eurasian ones, at least) really love the Brutalist style of architecture over Classical, despite the social media commentary.

Trump may be not incorrect when he notes that recently constructed federal buildings lack that certain je ne sais quois. But God help us if we let him determine what the alternative is.

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Pacifier, shiny objects, security blankie. Pity the poor souls stuck changing diapers and burping this 340 lbs. incontinent man baby.

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Oh, they’ve attended to that just the other day. You hadn’t heard? No joke.

In any real sense it is. The idea that the person with arguably the worst taste in history presumes to tell a superpower what its buildings can look like forevermore is indeed a joke.

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