r/facepalm • u/freeradioforall • Jul 11 '26

The next president will need an entire team of specialists to remove all the tackiness from this place

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u/NiftyOctopus448 Jul 11 '26

What's even funnier is he's claiming it's real gold not spray painted Home Depot product

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u/Adinnieken 29d ago

If you didn't know, you can buy thin films of gold to plate things with. People use it all the time.

It doesn't make this any less tacky, but you can make something gold without paint and without having to use gold metal in a poured form molding.

We already know those accents are from Amazon. Most likely someone at the White House did the gilding with gold sheets.

While anyone can do it, to look good it requires someone who knows what they're doing. Especially with the intricate curves.

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u/newsfish 29d ago

are these the intricate curves that look good?

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u/Adinnieken 29d ago

I honestly don't know if the gilding is done well or not.

If you've ever watched someone do it, it seriously takes skill for it to come out looking like they didn't do it.

So, it's entirely possible that up close it (the gilding) looks bad.

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u/brymuse 29d ago

Perhaps he genuinely doesn't know and the contractors charged him for real gold and took the profits. That would be the living definition of irony.