You’re actually right. The only gold toilet I’ve ever actually seen was some oil-sheik’s or something years ago, and I conflated it with his tendency to otherwise put gold plating on everything - that image in the New York(?) apartment sprung to mind - and a random comment I saw saying the same thing. Still, whether I used ‘literally’ correctly or not, the irony of a man used to excess preaching the virtues of austerity still stands. Fuck him.
Before it was 2 dolls instead of 30, or a 93% reduction.
Now it’s 5 pencils instead of 250, or a 98% reduction.
But more broadly, if I were Trump, I don’t think that I’d be focusing public attention on standard-of-living reductions among American children.
A man that literally shits on a golden toilet lecturing people about austerity is peak irony, though.
Apparently the toilet thing isn’t true, came from a picture of some jeweler’s bathroom.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trumps-golden-toilet/
Snopes does say that he has “gold-plated sink fixtures in one bathroom on his private jet”, though.
EDIT: And that jet, ignoring the furnishings, is something like 30 times the price of the jeweler’s bathroom with the gold toilet.
You’re actually right. The only gold toilet I’ve ever actually seen was some oil-sheik’s or something years ago, and I conflated it with his tendency to otherwise put gold plating on everything - that image in the New York(?) apartment sprung to mind - and a random comment I saw saying the same thing. Still, whether I used ‘literally’ correctly or not, the irony of a man used to excess preaching the virtues of austerity still stands. Fuck him.