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In reply to the discussion: Trump hangs a copy of Declaration of Independence in Oval Office [View all]sop
(15,162 posts)telling them "it's the real Declaration of Independence...believe me." Trump used to tell everyone he had a $10 million original Renoir hanging on his wall; art historians said it was a fake, the real one was in a museum. Then there was Trump's Paris art theft caper during his first term:
"Trump swiped some art from the residence of the US ambassador to France during a 2018 visit, the same visit on which he cancelled a trip to visit fallen First World War Marines at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery outside Paris after allegedly calling the dead 'suckers' and 'losers.'"
Trump "took several of the pieces in the ambassador’s historic residence in Paris, where he was staying and which serves as the flagship for the State Department’s 'Art in Embassies' cultural programme, without notifying the ambassador."
Trump had "a portrait and bust of Benjamin Franklin and a set of silver figurines depicting Greek mythological characters loaded onto Air Force One to bring them back to the White House. A bureaucratic nightmare ensued for the State Department and White House staffers, who worried that the $750,000 cache of art might not be legally transferable." The ambassador "was told that she would receive the work back in six years—or 2024, when a second term of Trump’s presidency would theoretically end."
"The loot, however, was deemed legal to enter the White House since it was technically US property… and all of the works were replicas or copies anyway. It remains unclear whether Trump knew that none of the pieces were original when he decided to take them home with him, or whether he, in truth, was the real sucker."
Trump is an imbecile.
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