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To Welcome the New King

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Subscribe to The Lamp for full access to all content. On the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump. A few months ago I learned that they were making fun legal again. I’d heard that now that Trump had won, the entire world would become golden-hued. Girls would have long golden hair and long golden arms reaching out begging you to dance. You’d stack up huge piles of lustrous golden cryptocoins. All those miserable gray buildings you hate, modernist masterpieces and millennial-slate five-over-ones, would be torn down, and every city was going to be swaggy, dripped out, Miami meets Riyadh, glowing gold under the blue American skies. Politics was about pleasure again, and everything unpleasant would be destroyed. Of course it was libidinal; it was so libidinal that you’re boring for even feeling the need to say that it’s libidinal. A quote-unquote top banker told the Financial Times that he felt liberated when Trump was elected; he felt like a new dawn was rising, because it meant he could

The Lamp Magazine | To Welcome the New King Skip to Content Easter 2025 | May 23, 2025 The Jungle To Welcome the New King by Sam Kriss On the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump. A few months ago I learned that they were making fun legal again. I’d heard that now that Trump had won, the entire world would become golden-hued. Girls would have long golden hair and long golden arms reaching out begging you to dance. You’d stack up huge piles of lustrous golden cryptocoins. All those miserable gray buildings you hate, modernist masterpieces and millennial-slate five-over-ones, would be torn dow

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