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One photograph in Donald Trump’s lengthy federal indictment spurred an outburst of laughter, conversation, and—above all—jokes and memes. You know the one. Boxes of documents Trump was hiding from the government, stacked in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. It wasn’t just the fact that he was hiding classified documents in a bathroom that drew attention. It was the specific bathroom, which says so much about Trump himself.
The stacks of boxes speak loudly about a man who left the White House with government documents, many of them classified, and actively obstructed federal efforts to get them back. But the details of the bathroom have drawn attention, too. We’re looking at a chandelier worthy of a formal dining room, a crystal (or crystal-like) wall sconce, marble floors and sink, the edge of an ornate gilded mirror frame … and a cheap-looking shower curtain on a tension rod, which appears to be hiding more stacks of boxes. That’s the shower curtain and tension rod you get when you’ve moved into a new rental apartment and, realizing there’s no shower curtain, run to Target so you can wash off the sweat and dust of having unloaded your own UHaul.
