• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
    16·
    17 hours ago

    Replacing a historical stone monument that could have stood for centuries with cheap, tacky brass that will corrode in a few decades without maintenance?

    So much winning. Dude doesn’t understand how monuments work.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    12·
    17 hours ago

    I know gold is gaudy and it looks… plasticy somehow, entirely fake, just like Trump.

    But when those statues were built, they were made of bronze and then fire-gilded.

    This is how they looked in 2008:

    The statues were actually due for a re-gilding… but I think it should not have been done in gold leaf! Much too shiny. But making them golden was not Trumps idea. And Obama had absolutely nothing to do with these statues.

    I am far more concerned about how this shitposter-administration announced the work:

    Interior secretary Doug Burgum had recently ordered the regilding of the statues as part of the department’s “auramaxxing [of] Washington, D.C. ahead of America’s 250th birthday”.

    And that the no-bid contract (so you know it’s corruption) balooned over budget from 2.4 to 5.1 million dollar.

  • DupaCycki
    31·
    17 hours ago

    He may be the worst one so far, but if you genuinely respect any US president - you have a serious problem.

      • Malyca@lemmy.zip
        15·
        24 hours ago

        My favorite is the one where she slaps his hand away when he tries to hold hers.

        • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          12·
          1 day ago

          It’s like the hanging tennisball in the garage, except it isn’t warning you about backing into a wall as much as warning you that if your lips come any closer she’ll release the video of you eating that baby

    • ThePowerOfGeekEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I thought the Trump photo here would be that one of him playing tennis. Nice job mixing it up.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Let’s be honest, it’s likely just gold-colored brass.

      Maybe a micron-thick electroplating but honestly he’s probably too cheap even for that.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
      27·
      2 days ago

      It is a generally accepted show of wealth, which is a big part of his brand. Decent countries do not tend to do that. For public projects there are creative ways of making something look good, but you need creative artists for that. The issue is that artists very often struggle for a bit, which means they have some tendency to be critical of asshole governments. So dictators tend to fall back to copying old art with more gold and in bigger. Some also do new foreign artists in big.

      For private style it is beneficial to be seen as being rich in a corrupt dictatorship. As in people believe that a rich person has contacts with the right people, which can make their life miserable. That is why they might not ask for a bribe or similar.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        17 hours ago

        It’s not a very good show of wealth since it’s not even real gold. Just brass, or gold-plated nickel.

        The size is a dead giveaway. Real gold tends to have daintier appearance because less is more. No one would waste 24k gold on something so unseemly.

        This is beyond ostentatious. Gaudiness is tacky. Real wealth can afford better taste.

        Trump is the cheapest rich person I’ve ever seen.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            15 hours ago

            It looks like it’s posing awkwardly for a photo, thinking that bending the knee like that will look cute but not realizing how contrived and cringy it actually looks. Nothing natural about it.

            By contrast, the stone horse looks like it’s mid-trot. Looks genuinely candid.

            Trump has no class.

      • glimse
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Decent countries do not tend to do that

        W H A T do you live on another planet?

        • Enkrod@feddit.org
          2·
          18 hours ago

          I do not understand this comment.

          Are you saying decent countries gilt everything as a show of wealth?

          • glimse
            1·
            15 hours ago

            I’m saying it’s only some wealthy people who are into it and they exist everywhere, it’s not a US thing.

            Plus…historically, plenty of countries did exactly that. Famously. Statues, furniture, rooms. It’s not like Trump is the originator

            If anywhere could claim it as their aesthetic nowadays, it’d be the UAE.

            • M137
              1·
              13 hours ago

              It’s so odd how much you didn’t understand what they ment. They talked about countries, as in the government’s and people who rule not using gold for stuff like statues etc. in decent countries.

              They never said they only ment the US, they never said it was about anything other than the countries (like some people).

              I seriously don’t understand how you’re so confused about very clear words, it’s extremely weird.

  • shai_hulud
    10·
    2 days ago

    ability to speak and read English, intelligence, and empathy

  • dustycups@aussie.zone
    5·
    2 days ago

    What tf is that woman on the right doing?

    Edit: TIL about the statues of the Arts of War and the Arts of Peace

    • JeeBaiChow
      6·
      2 days ago

      Its trump. Shes doing whatever the hell it is he tells her to do, or else.

  • RidderSport@feddit.org
    61·
    2 days ago

    That looks like it’s made by that sculptor that made the bust of Ronaldo. Holy hell of tackiness, like was that statue ever gold-plated?