Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

 

 "The ballroom is, among other things, another insight into Trump’s wretched, spray-tanned psyche. If Louis XIV built a literal Hall of Mirrors, Trump is erecting a Freudian version.

Donald Trump has never been all that adept at masking his insecurities. His bravado, narcissism, and cruelty have always told the story of a grasping, needy outsider who remains far more famous for playing a successful businessman on tv than for any real executive prowess.

Donald Trump’s entire career has been one of trying to project the man he wants us all to think he is while never being able to conceal the weak, uncultured bully he’s always been. "

read analysis by ALAN ELROD  

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project