It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

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I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

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And at some point the game was up for Ceaușescu. . .

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‪you’re not gonna need money, you’re gonna need goats and firewood, baby‬

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this is true only in the sense that the economy is about to crash so badly we will be thrust back into a crude barter system for survival

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