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Miles Archer

(20,880 posts)
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:55 AM 8 hrs ago

Trump is a MENTAL INFANT. He wanted a "chandelier in the Oval Office" but the ceiling couldn't handle the weight.

White House staff were forced to step in to stop President Donald Trump from hanging a potentially damaging chandelier in the Oval Office, according to a new book by Republican strategist Scott Jennings.

The problem wasn’t aesthetic. It was physics. The ceiling couldn’t hold it, Jennings writes in A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization.

In the $25 book, CNN’s resident MAGA pundit recounts a visit to the Oval Office when Trump floated the idea from behind the Resolute Desk: “I’m thinking of putting a chandelier in here… Right through the shield there on the ceiling.”

However, White House staff later investigated the request, Jennings writes, discovering that the Oval Office ceiling “couldn’t hold the weight.” CNN reported in March that Trump had “toyed” with the idea of hanging the light fixture.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-staff-had-to-kill-trumps-physically-impossible-oval-office-chandelier-says-scott-jennings/

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Trump is a MENTAL INFANT. He wanted a "chandelier in the Oval Office" but the ceiling couldn't handle the weight. (Original Post) Miles Archer 8 hrs ago OP
He could add a gold-painted beam to support the chandelier dalton99a 8 hrs ago #1
The very old Traildogbob 8 hrs ago #2
Please proceed, Mr. President. Coventina 8 hrs ago #3
But what if he'd had it installed anyhow, and Karma had her way with him? Ocelot II 8 hrs ago #4
Stephen Miller looks pretty lightweight. Paint him in gold and let him hold a hanging glitter lightbulb... hlthe2b 8 hrs ago #5
Should have put up the tiniest chandalier, a la Spinal Tap's Stonehenge. flvegan 8 hrs ago #6
Fuck scott jennings. spanone 8 hrs ago #7
Simple solution: Tear down the Oval Office and make a larger irregular gold-leaf walled Dodecagon. TheBlackAdder 8 hrs ago #8
The guy that took his Physics test for him Norbert 8 hrs ago #9

Coventina

(28,928 posts)
3. Please proceed, Mr. President.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:00 AM
8 hrs ago

Please hang the heaviest, glitteriest, most gold-encrusted chandelier you can find, right over your desk!

Ocelot II

(128,320 posts)
4. But what if he'd had it installed anyhow, and Karma had her way with him?
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:01 AM
8 hrs ago

A shudder and a deafening crash; staff rush in to see nothing but a jumble of plaster, debris, wires, crystals, cankles and a red necktie?

hlthe2b

(112,148 posts)
5. Stephen Miller looks pretty lightweight. Paint him in gold and let him hold a hanging glitter lightbulb...
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:02 AM
8 hrs ago



(No, I was not advocating for a harmful form of affixing him to the ceiling... )

flvegan

(65,494 posts)
6. Should have put up the tiniest chandalier, a la Spinal Tap's Stonehenge.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:03 AM
8 hrs ago

Could have been yet another daily public embarrassment for him.

TheBlackAdder

(29,849 posts)
8. Simple solution: Tear down the Oval Office and make a larger irregular gold-leaf walled Dodecagon.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:09 AM
8 hrs ago

We all know it's coming.

Norbert

(7,462 posts)
9. The guy that took his Physics test for him
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:15 AM
8 hrs ago

Didn't tell him about Newtons laws of gravity so it wasn't Krasnov's fault.

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