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Nov 11, 2025, 22 tweets

1/22

Holy shit!!

MAGA complained the Home Depot one was “just a knockoff” so I sourced the EXACT mouldings Trump has in the Oval Office…

-It’s even MORE embarrassing…

-highlights Trump’s Epstein connections…

-and shows the Mar-a-Lago is cheap!

2/22

The company “JP Weaver” makes custom moulding designs for residences.

They use a plaster and burnish it gold.

This means it’s painted with a metallic paint - which sometimes has some gold flakes, but often is just a pigment! 😂

3/22

JP Weaver does offer actual gold finishing via a partner, who does 0.11 micron thin gold foil at 14k

That means an 8.5x11 (standard sheet of paper) size of foil would cost about $9.20~ 😅

Their other finishers don’t use real gold finish.

4/22

But how do we know Trump used them?

Well for one, he is their customer and used them for the Mar-a-Lago as shown in their websites samples.

Meaning all the “gold” in his home and Mar-a-Lago is either:

-cheap bronze paint

Or

-$9 wrapping foil

5/22

The design in the Oval Office also seems to be based on the recreations that JP Weaver did based on actual gold sculpting works found on the Titanic.

They first recreated this for Ronald Reagan’s Presidential library.

You know, the guy Trump has by his desk…

6/22

Ultimately, they only have so many designs and they just paint the plaster and rotate it to fit, making some minor changes.

But they basically just trace their old moulds.

7/22

The company also seems to have done the hideous designs in Trump’s Manhattan home as well - more classic mouldings and ceiling work though.

8/22

But see if you can spot where this particular design is?

Is it the Oval Office or Trump’s home?

Trick question!

It’s from Epstein’s Manhattan residence during his first arrest - when he was having work done on the home.

9/22

The very same residence we later saw filled with ornamental mouldings, including in the burnished gold style.

10/22

But, what stands out the most is the sconce and wall trim in the “Bride Staircase” of Epstein’s Manhattan home.

Matching the Oval Office’s new door trim

11/22

That lamp is a double layer fleur sconce in the Louis XIV style.

But actual sconces from that era are brass, gilted and single level.

One of the only places in the US you see gold replicas in that style?

The Mar-a-Lago “Piano Room”.

12/22

But who designed Epstein’s Manhattan home?

Alberto Pinto.

No, not his firm.

Alberto personally,

That’s part of why he is in Epstien’s birthday book…

13/22

Here’s some examples of Pinto’s work - familiar style?

It gets better:

14/22

Alberto Pinto was the designer to many wealthy clients including Adnan Kashoggi, the Saudi mogul and gun-runner who ran a smuggling operation with Epstein.

15/22

Trump was always jealous of Khashoggi and after seeing Khashoggi’s residence he ordered his Trump Tower Penthouse outfitted with gold, and started doing this at every Trump property.

(Just you know, on a budget, so it was plaster! 😅)

16/22

Trump even bought the Nabila, Khashoggi’s yacht, which was designed by…. Alberto Pinto.

(He later sold this to a Saudi Prince at a loss)

17/22

That yacht is where Trump threw a party, that included both Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, and allegedly Jeffery Epstein.

18/22

Alberto Pinto, did extensive work for Russian oligarchs, Saudi, and Qatari Royal Families, and other groups despite sanctions and needed a way to move money through offshore accounts.

And of course he found that in money launder Epstein.

19/22

But Pinto wasn’t JUST a designer.

According to Maxwell’s testimony he designed the entire Little St James (Epstein Island)

And according to Virginia Giuffre, Alberto Pinto and Linda Pinto were on the flight where she was abused by Epstein.

20/22

That flight manifest lists “AP” as one of the passengers that day.

And Linda Pinto denies any knowledge of wrong-doing on that flight.

21/22

Linda Pinto now runs the “Cabinet Alberto Pinto” design firm since her brothers passing.

The same firm that was just given the lucrative contract to design the interior of Trump’s new Qatari jet…

22/22

So MAGA, you’re right.

Trump’s fake gold Oval Office wall art isn’t from Home Depot.

It’s plaster, wrapped in tinfoil, based on designs that remind us of Trump’s deep ties to a major pedo-network, serial abusers, smugglers and gun runners:

And his best friend Epstein.

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