Compensation for something, sure, but I don’t think Trump’s bad taste can be accounted for as overcorrecting for early privations. He knows that real old money looks down on him as nouveau riche even though he was born into more-than-median wealth, and since he’s a narcissistic idiot he tries to prove his worth with ridiculous gaudy shit instead of taking a clue from his “peers” on how to behave.
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