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He repeatedly shouted that Trump has "no mandate to cut Medicaid" while pointing his gilded cane toward the podium.

His other premier work is a classic man-on-a-horse — the gilded equestrian statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, victorious Union Army general, standing in front of the Plaza Hotel at an entrance to New York’s Central Park.

Or will we be turned off by the opulence of the gilded golfing life enjoyed by the biggest stars?

His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.

Whatever their tastes in art, you can be sure they weren’t there to admire the statues and oil paintings lining the gilded Capitol Rotunda.