#ostentation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ostentation, aggregated by home.social.
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved President Trump’s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, even after the president rejected the panel’s suggestion to make the structure smaller by removing a towering, winged angel and two golden eagles.
The arts panel, which is filled with Mr. Trump’s appointees, has an advisory role on the design of the project but no enforcement power. The same panel also fast-tracked approval of Mr. Trump’s $400 million ballroom, bypassing the normal review process on a project that would transform the profile of the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-arch-approved.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.WIhY.vrcmTNHpkle3&smid=url-share #GiftArticle #TriumphalArch #Ostentation #ego #Trump
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
An unconscious, easy, selfish person shocks less, and is more easily loved, than one who is laboriously and egotistically unselfish. There is at least no fuss about the first; but the other parades his sacrifices, and so sells his favours too dear.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 5 “Selfishness and Egoism”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #ego #egotism #fuss #martyr #ostentation #pride #sacrifice #saint #selfcenteredness #selfishness #unselfishness
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Frank Bruni, NYTimes - “…he ( #trump ) has been acting with a rapacity remarkable even for someone so famously given to greed. He’s creating an ostentatious White House ballroom in a new East Wing as tall as the main White House building. He’s attempting to stamp his visage on both sides of a $1 coin to commemorate the country’s 250th birthday. He’s constructing a whole new monument — a gaudy arch — for the occasion, too.
“He announced the building of a “golden fleet” of “Trump class” warships. He put his name on the Kennedy Center and on the U.S. Institute of Peace. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you,” he reportedly said during his first term in the presidency. In this second term, he’s in “don’t you dare forget me” mode, and the infinity of directions in which that impulse could sprawl is terrifying.” #TrumpRegime #Narcissism #Ostentation #EgoManiac
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Frank Bruni, NYTimes - “…he ( #trump ) has been acting with a rapacity remarkable even for someone so famously given to greed. He’s creating an ostentatious White House ballroom in a new East Wing as tall as the main White House building. He’s attempting to stamp his visage on both sides of a $1 coin to commemorate the country’s 250th birthday. He’s constructing a whole new monument — a gaudy arch — for the occasion, too.
“He announced the building of a “golden fleet” of “Trump class” warships. He put his name on the Kennedy Center and on the U.S. Institute of Peace. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you,” he reportedly said during his first term in the presidency. In this second term, he’s in “don’t you dare forget me” mode, and the infinity of directions in which that impulse could sprawl is terrifying.” #TrumpRegime #Narcissism #Ostentation #EgoManiac
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"I suppose Trump’s entitled to his garish decorating touches — someone who I can’t recall recently observed that he’s made the now gold-accented Oval Office look like Siegfried & Roy’s living room — since he does plan to live there for the next 3 ½ to 20 years, or whenever the statute of limitations expires for all the laws he’s breaking as America’s first dictator."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump #WhiteHouse #fakery #ostentation #style #AllThatGlittersIsNotGold
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"I suppose Trump’s entitled to his garish decorating touches — someone who I can’t recall recently observed that he’s made the now gold-accented Oval Office look like Siegfried & Roy’s living room — since he does plan to live there for the next 3 ½ to 20 years, or whenever the statute of limitations expires for all the laws he’s breaking as America’s first dictator."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump #WhiteHouse #fakery #ostentation #style #AllThatGlittersIsNotGold
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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 9 (1966)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ostentation #affluence #communication #message #money #selfexpression #wealth
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@samlitzinger
#Ostentation is a hallmark of #narcisists. Of course, #tRump woud do this, true to form. -
A quotation from Sarah J. Hale
We need not power or splendor;
Wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender, —
These form the wealth of home.Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879) American writer, activist, magazine editor
“Home” (1830)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hale-sarah-josepha/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #family #home #ostentation #power #simplicity #splendor #tenderness #truth #wealth
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CLÉANTE: There’s true and false in piety, as in bravery,
And just as those whose courage shines the most
In battle, are the least inclined to boast,
So those whose hearts are truly pure and lowly
Don’t make a flashy show of being holy.
[Il est de faux dévots ainsi que de faux braves:
Et, comme on ne voit pas qu’où l’honneur les conduit
Les vrais braves soient ceux qui font beaucoup de bruit,
Les bons et vrais dévots, qu’on doit suivre à la trace,
Ne sont pas ceux aussi qui font tant de grimace.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/75622/
#quote #quotes #quotation #boasting #bragging #bravado #bravery #courage #devotion #hypocrisy #hypocrite #ostentation #performance #piety #pious #showingoff #visibility
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In Our Time - The Theory of the Leisure Class
Plus ça change plus c'est pareil!
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder that all that glisters is not gold. He (...) showed how the new moneyed class was adopting these in ways that led to greater waste throughout society.