• tal
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.