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Some buildings become monuments to greatness.
Others become monuments to insecurity that history has to bury out of embarrassment.
They’re grotesque. (9/9)
Others become monuments to insecurity that history has to bury out of embarrassment.
They’re grotesque. (9/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Some buildings become monuments to greatness.
Others become monuments to insecurity that history has to bury out of embarrassment.
They’re grotesque. (9/9)
Others become monuments to insecurity that history has to bury out of embarrassment.
They’re grotesque. (9/9)
who covered everything in gold and built monuments to himself because he was desperate to be seen as great.
Nero's palace was bigger than it needed to be. More gold than made sense. Built to prove something that real power never has to prove.
Then the Romans buried it in shame. (8/9)
Nero's palace was bigger than it needed to be. More gold than made sense. Built to prove something that real power never has to prove.
Then the Romans buried it in shame. (8/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
who covered everything in gold and built monuments to himself because he was desperate to be seen as great.
Nero's palace was bigger than it needed to be. More gold than made sense. Built to prove something that real power never has to prove.
Then the Romans buried it in shame. (8/9)
Nero's palace was bigger than it needed to be. More gold than made sense. Built to prove something that real power never has to prove.
Then the Romans buried it in shame. (8/9)
Very secure leader behavior.
Oh, and it's "self-funded"—by Google ($22 million), Lockheed Martin (undisclosed), and various tech companies (undisclosed) who are all - purely coincidentally - doing business with his administration.
So the word "grotesque" comes from an insecure tyrant (7/9)
Oh, and it's "self-funded"—by Google ($22 million), Lockheed Martin (undisclosed), and various tech companies (undisclosed) who are all - purely coincidentally - doing business with his administration.
So the word "grotesque" comes from an insecure tyrant (7/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Very secure leader behavior.
Oh, and it's "self-funded"—by Google ($22 million), Lockheed Martin (undisclosed), and various tech companies (undisclosed) who are all - purely coincidentally - doing business with his administration.
So the word "grotesque" comes from an insecure tyrant (7/9)
Oh, and it's "self-funded"—by Google ($22 million), Lockheed Martin (undisclosed), and various tech companies (undisclosed) who are all - purely coincidentally - doing business with his administration.
So the word "grotesque" comes from an insecure tyrant (7/9)
for doing all of this."
Makes him seem smaller.
Aides say he 3D-printed little dollhouse models that he fidgets with during meals. "The tenser things are, the more he moves the pieces around."
So when actual work needs doing, he's... playing with tiny buildings.
Very normal. (6/9)
Makes him seem smaller.
Aides say he 3D-printed little dollhouse models that he fidgets with during meals. "The tenser things are, the more he moves the pieces around."
So when actual work needs doing, he's... playing with tiny buildings.
Very normal. (6/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
for doing all of this."
Makes him seem smaller.
Aides say he 3D-printed little dollhouse models that he fidgets with during meals. "The tenser things are, the more he moves the pieces around."
So when actual work needs doing, he's... playing with tiny buildings.
Very normal. (6/9)
Makes him seem smaller.
Aides say he 3D-printed little dollhouse models that he fidgets with during meals. "The tenser things are, the more he moves the pieces around."
So when actual work needs doing, he's... playing with tiny buildings.
Very normal. (6/9)
Gilded Corinthian columns. Crystal chandeliers. Gold everything. All modeled after Mar-a-Lago.
He's literally remaking the People's House to look like his country club.
Interior designers are calling it "tacky," "looks cheap," “gilded rococo nightmare” and—"makes him seem smaller (5/9)
He's literally remaking the People's House to look like his country club.
Interior designers are calling it "tacky," "looks cheap," “gilded rococo nightmare” and—"makes him seem smaller (5/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gilded Corinthian columns. Crystal chandeliers. Gold everything. All modeled after Mar-a-Lago.
He's literally remaking the People's House to look like his country club.
Interior designers are calling it "tacky," "looks cheap," “gilded rococo nightmare” and—"makes him seem smaller (5/9)
He's literally remaking the People's House to look like his country club.
Interior designers are calling it "tacky," "looks cheap," “gilded rococo nightmare” and—"makes him seem smaller (5/9)
Now, why am I bringing this up the day after the East Wing got demolished?
Because somebody just tore down a building that survived World War II to build a ballroom TWICE THE SIZE of the White House itself.
$250-300 million (the number keeps going up). (4/9)
Because somebody just tore down a building that survived World War II to build a ballroom TWICE THE SIZE of the White House itself.
$250-300 million (the number keeps going up). (4/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Now, why am I bringing this up the day after the East Wing got demolished?
Because somebody just tore down a building that survived World War II to build a ballroom TWICE THE SIZE of the White House itself.
$250-300 million (the number keeps going up). (4/9)
Because somebody just tore down a building that survived World War II to build a ballroom TWICE THE SIZE of the White House itself.
$250-300 million (the number keeps going up). (4/9)
they found these wild, distorted paintings everywhere. They called it "pittura grottesca"—"cave painting."
That's where we get the word "grotesque." It literally means: the excessive, desperate stuff from Nero's palace that was so cringe they had to bury it. (3/9)
That's where we get the word "grotesque." It literally means: the excessive, desperate stuff from Nero's palace that was so cringe they had to bury it. (3/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
they found these wild, distorted paintings everywhere. They called it "pittura grottesca"—"cave painting."
That's where we get the word "grotesque." It literally means: the excessive, desperate stuff from Nero's palace that was so cringe they had to bury it. (3/9)
That's where we get the word "grotesque." It literally means: the excessive, desperate stuff from Nero's palace that was so cringe they had to bury it. (3/9)
built himself a 100-300 acre golden palace called the Domus Aurea. It had a 98-foot statue of himself, a party barge lake, and SO. MUCH. GOLD.
When Renaissance artists discovered it centuries later (buried underground because even Romans were like, “This is too much”), (2/9)
When Renaissance artists discovered it centuries later (buried underground because even Romans were like, “This is too much”), (2/9)
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
built himself a 100-300 acre golden palace called the Domus Aurea. It had a 98-foot statue of himself, a party barge lake, and SO. MUCH. GOLD.
When Renaissance artists discovered it centuries later (buried underground because even Romans were like, “This is too much”), (2/9)
When Renaissance artists discovered it centuries later (buried underground because even Romans were like, “This is too much”), (2/9)
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