I simply couldn’t let the President’s destruction of the East Wing to make way for an imperial 90,000 square foot "Big Balls" Room that will dwarf and trivialize the White House go by without a snarky blog post. Let the tackiness begin! I would call the style of the gilded-by-Home-Depot cartouches that now festoon the Oval Office, the convention-center-sized "Big Balls" Room soon-to-be under construction, and the proposed (but you know he’ll build it) Arc de Trump , dictator chic. Sadly, I can’t claim to have coined that bon mot . It’s an iteration of Peter York’s term “dictator style.” Who is Peter York, you might ask? According to this article , he is a cutting British culture critic who dishes with the finest faience : Peter York is best known for his astute and acerbic observations about British culture and life. For more than 40 years, he has drawn on his background in market research to spot and analyse trends and tribes, from the Sl...