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Welcome to our weekend podcast.

I am Charlie Sykes. We have a week of stuff to get through and who better than the professor himself, Tom Nichols, staff writer at the Atlantic Magazine, old friend of the show. How you doing, Tom? I got questions for this.

I'm good, Charlie. Good to see you again. Okay. We're going to work up the big stuff. I've got to ask you this question. Okay. So Donald Trump has decided in his spare time running the world and then shittifying the economy that he wants to have a $200 million new dining room in the White House, which will be covered in gold. I mean, you know,

apparently he's decided that I have to make this literally the Gilded Age. Now, he's already done

this with the Oval Office. You've seen that? The company, the kind of, it's, I don't think,

I didn't coin this, but that, that style that is, you know, Walmart Liberace.

Well, that's better than the deeply offensive comment that I read, you know, referring it to

Slovenian whorehouse chic. I don't know, but I mean, you know, apparently at some point he's

thinking, he's thinking, this looks like the palace of Versailles or something like that.

So the question I had for you was, what is it about autocrats in general, that they always have such bad art taste?

They always want to have the gaudy gilded stuff.

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