Gimme that
Trump had other business that fateful day in Paris:
Trump pointed out a Benjamin Franklin bust, a Franklin portrait and a set of figurines of Greek mythical characters, and insisted the pieces come back with him to Washington. McCourt, the ambassador, was startled, but didn’t object, according to people briefed on the incident. Trump later quipped that the envoy would get the art back “in six years,” when his potential second term in office would be winding down.
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The White House claims that Trump brought the pieces back so that they could be displayed for the American people. The problem is that the pieces are being displayed in the Oval Office, which is not open to the public.
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Interestingly, the art that Trump loved so much that he just had to take it, were replicas, so a fake president stole fake art and then lied about displaying it in public,
He didn’t really “steal” it, since it’s government property whether in the embassy or in Trump’s second best toilet, but if the story is true he did rudely help himself to it for no apparent reason. Seems typical.
I hope they made him sign a receipt or invoice. I also hope that when Trump leaves office* that it’s all accounted for.
*Yes, part of me is optimistic that this will actually happen. It’s hard to function otherwise, and I’m not even American.
Good grief. He’s President of the freaking US. Surely if he really liked the freaking replicas he could have got some more for the White House without taking the ones from the embassy? I assume they do have a decorating and furnishing budget – or has the money all been spent on golf trips?
He does know that Franklin would have absolutely despised him, right?
BKiSA, I suspect the Greek mythological figures would have despised him, too. Maybe not Eris; she thrived on random mischief.