# Donald Trump is Big Brother **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 19, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547 "2025-05-19T13:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547/1 "2025-05-19T13:40:02Z")
Not only is he Auric Goldfinger, now he’s Big Brother from 1984. That’s the almost inevitable comment made after a giant portrait of Trump showed up as a banner on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Building > **[‘Big Donald Is Watching You’: MSNBC Host Mocks Gigantic Banner Of Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-banner-ali-velshi_n_682ae55fe4b0b2994c198c71)** > > The massive image of the president now glaring down from the Department of Agriculture is a troubling sign of what could be to come, warned Ali Velshi. I’m flabbergasted. I’ve seen giant portraits of Dictators and leaders of military juntas, but I can’t recall anything like this for a sitting US President. It’s evidently his Inaugural Portrait, which looks unsettlingly like his Mug Shot. > **[Trump recreates mugshot scowl in new inauguration portrait](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/16/donald-trump-inauguration-portrait-revealed/)** > > With one eyebrow raised and looking straight at the camera, the new image of the president-elect is just as defiant and stoic ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547/2 "2025-05-19T13:45:37Z")
Did this really need two thread? Couldn’t you have just added it to your one from yesterday? > [@Donald Trump is Auric Goldfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-auric-goldfinger/1018520): > > I don’t know how I missed it all this time. – He’s got the same body shape – He loves gold decorations, covering buildings with it and his signs, and now adding gold decorations to the austere Oval Office. – He cheats at golf –He has his own “Oddjob” helpers – He has a cozy relationship with North Korea –He’s a narcissistic autocrat egomaniac The one area where Auric Goldfinger has him beat is in eloquence. Consider Goldfinger’s famous speech when he has Bond bound to a sheet of gold, thr… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547/3 "2025-05-19T13:51:54Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Did this really need two thread? Couldn’t you have just added it to your one from yesterday? Nah – they’re two different topics. One is fun and happy (Trump as Goldfinger, if you need the clue), while the other is dark and foreboding and creepy (Trump as fictional authoritarian). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547/4 "2025-05-19T13:58:36Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Did this really need two thread? Couldn’t you have just added it to your one from yesterday? Maybe both existing threads can be combined in a single thread entitled, “Which despotic leader and/or megalomaniac criminal is Donald Trump cosplaying today?” Given how much he clearly loves the role, vernacular, and trappings of being a dictator (and he even told us he was going to be “only on Day One” as if strongman leaders ever voluntarily relinquish power) it is surprising that anyone is still discounting that his desire is to turn the United States authoritarian regime. As for Goldfinger, Trump is somehow even more inept. He’s what the villain would be like if the film were directed by Mel Brooks. That being said, he has plenty of ambitious people surrounding him that are perfectly happy to try to use his authority and populism to effect their own dystopian visions of a totalitarian or anarcho-fascist state. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-big-brother/1018547/5 "2025-05-19T19:47:56Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Maybe both existing threads can be combined in a single thread entitled, “Which despotic leader and/or megalomaniac criminal is Donald Trump cosplaying today?” Agreed. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > Did this really need two thread? It’s bad enough that people will take the same news article and post it to the Schadenfreude thread, the “how has Trump pissed you off today” thread, the “stupid MFer” thread, the “Stupid Republican idea” thread, and so on. We have a ton of threads on the same topic in the Pit.