Columnist Carolina Miranda draws parallels between Trump’s office decor and that of Louis XIV

Columnist Carolina Miranda compares President Donald Trump 's decorating style to that of King Louis XIV of France .

Miranda argues that Trump ’s penchant for Rococo design reflects “an aesthetic that connotes absolute rule” and says “ Trump 's gilded gewgaws” are “intimately connected” with “our growing authoritarian state,” she writes.

Trump ’s office decor is a nod to American culture.

It's a very charismatic kind of obnoxious, like saying “everything's bigger in Texas ” annoys the other 49 states while Texans make it a point of pride.

“There is something intrinsically American ’ about maximalist interior design,” wrote an interior decorator.