Why this pic should ‘terrify’ America

Two men were found guilty of stealing a $10 million, fully-functional 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in the UK last week.

The really shocking thing about it? Their names are not Donald Trump Junior and The Other One, or as it says on his birth certificate, Eric.

Because if anyone was going to have a gold loo, you would have thought it would be their father, whose taste in decor makes Versailles’ gaudy excess look like mid-century Scandi modern by comparison.

Never mind.

Donald Trump has still managed to redecorate the Oval Office, really giving it the full Floridian OTT rich-dentist-on-his-third-wife, rococo-on-rococo makeover that is such an aesthetic crime the editors of World of Interiors are campaigning for his third impeachment.

But squint and look past the Midas touches, and there are huge clues about the President’s end game.

There are already plenty of signs that Mr Trump might not actually leave office when he is meant to in 2028, all but making him into, well, a king. (After all, he and Louis XIV have the same taste in end tables).

He’s already started talking about it.

Barely eight weeks since the inauguration, or what feels like 855 days, there is already substantial discussion that Mr Trump might serve a third term – or longer – and le...
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