I find the notion of Trump receiving people in his golden palace atop of his gaudy tower bizarre.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Yes, sure, I'm sure all President-elects meet with a wide variety of visitors and dignitaries following their election. That's probably fairly normal, IMHO. That's not really the point here, though.

But this just feels....different. Like he's expecting people to come up and kiss the king's ring. He's setting up this type of royal image about himself already. It's off-putting and confirming what type of persona I worried he'd create around himself.

[JHan]

1. Yes, it reminds of kiss-my-ring scenes in Mafia movies.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. The peons must swear fealty to the king, doncha know.

This whole election was more about his enormous ego than actually serving in office.

[el_bryanto]

3. Reminds me of a biblical story

8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’"

11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Bryant

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Like this?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. L'Etat, c'est moi.

The new motto of the Presidency starting January 20, 2017.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Do you suppose Trump will start wearing gold lame pantaloons?

[lunatica]

7. There's no enough gold there

[Vinca]

8. It's all a big reality show.

If the press would go away and stop reporting the comings and goings of the ass kissers, he'd get his naming over with and we could carry on trying to figure out how we can avoid the end of life on the planet (short term - nuclear war, long term - climate change).

[bdamomma]

9. I am going to post these articles

he is not a person to hold office. and our stupid MSM is his accomplice to his deadly deeds.


http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/trump-couch-wdr-justin-frank-md

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/noam-chomsky-warns-trumps-victory-presents-literal-threat-to-survival-of-human-species/

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/washington-woman-explains-election-choice-i-gave-up-on-hope-and-voted-for-trump/

Where is our Congress on this oh of course lining their pockets.