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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mas.to/users/kims/statuses/114346064993989206">Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:48:08 JST</a><a href="https://mas.to/@kims" title="kims@mas.to"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/67357-48-20240730001655.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Kim Scheinberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Kim Scheinberg</a><div><a href="https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/114345937163654353" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/86798" title="npars01@mstdn.social">Nicole Parsons</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_">@_L1vY_</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@Npars01">@Npars01</a> <br>Stephen Fry wrote about this back in 2016 too:</p><p>"Trump is the faux-mahogany and fake-brass lamp and ceiling fan available in Target and Walmart that swirls and beats the air above us all, not shining light, just stirring the air noisily and to no purpose, while claiming to be somehow an heirloom and a collectible."</p><p><a href="https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/03/trumperytowersoverall/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/03/trumperytowersoverall/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4902027#notice-9603464">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-16T14:48:08+09:00" title="Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:48:08 JST">about 11 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/9603464" rel="external" title="Sent from gnusocial.jp via ActivityPub">gnusocial.jp</a></span></span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/9603464">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4472696">But in fact he has already won. Trump’s idea of what success is, what style is, what America means has largely been ‘voted for’ and has become an aspirational norm for hotels, malls, resorts and homes up and down the land, uglifying America with an especially repugnant kind of short-lasting gloss and shallow gleam. [...]Do please believe that to decry such offences against taste is emphatically not a kind of snobbery. Doubtless Trump and his supporters would see any attack on him on aesthetic grounds as sneering metropolitan elitism because they would choose not to understand the moral dimension at play here. It must be understood that bad taste on the monstrous scale that Trump disseminates and embodies is the most brutal crime against the human spirit — a snobbery that looks down with contempt.If you don’t know Peter York’s book Dictators’ Homes you really should try to get hold of it. It demonstrates quite wonderfully and hilariously how a gross, shatteringly greedy appetite for power and gross, shatteringly vulgar taste go hand in hand. The ‘ruthless, ill-educated, ignorant and trashily vainglorious’ who want to rule us at any price can be read through their bedrooms, dining-rooms and studies.And, leafing through the book, whose execrable, vomitous taste do you think i shown most exactly to match that of Trump and hs towers and foul resort hotels? Why Saddam Hussein's of course. Indistinguishable.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/346/055/608/675/891/original/a641ff351bad41fa.jpg" rel="external">https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/346/055/608/675/891/original/a641ff351bad41fa.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.stephenfry.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/03/trumperytowersoverall/">Trumpery Towers Over All - Official site of Stephen Fry</a></h5><div> from <span>Stephen Fry</span></div></header><div>‘for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions…’</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:48:08 JSTKim Scheinberg
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Stephen Fry wrote about this back in 2016 too:
"Trump is the faux-mahogany and fake-brass lamp and ceiling fan available in Target and Walmart that swirls and beats the air above us all, not shining light, just stirring the air noisily and to no purpose, while claiming to be somehow an heirloom and a collectible."
https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/03/trumperytowersoverall/
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1. But in fact he has already won. Trump’s idea of what success is, what style is, what America means has largely been ‘voted for’ and has become an aspirational norm for hotels, malls, resorts and homes up and down the land, uglifying America with an especially repugnant kind of short-lasting gloss and shallow gleam. [...] Do please believe that to decry such offences against taste is emphatically not a kind of snobbery. Doubtless Trump and his supporters would see any attack on him on aesthetic grounds as sneering metropolitan elitism because they would choose not to understand the moral dimension at play here. It must be understood that bad taste on the monstrous scale that Trump disseminates and embodies is the most brutal crime against the human spirit — a snobbery that looks down with contempt. If you don’t know Peter York’s book Dictators’ Homes you really should try to get hold of it. It demonstrates quite wonderfully and hilariously how a gross, shatteringly greedy appetite for power and gross, shatteringly vulgar taste go hand in hand. The ‘ruthless, ill-educated, ignorant and trashily vainglorious’ who want to rule us at any price can be read through their bedrooms, dining-rooms and studies. And, leafing through the book, whose execrable, vomitous taste do you think i shown most exactly to match that of Trump and hs towers and foul resort hotels? Why Saddam Hussein's of course. Indistinguishable.
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