Meet the Man Judging the Hell Out of TV Pundits’ and Politicians’ Homes

Room Rater is the latest and maybe best piece of flamethrowing from an anti-Trump Twitter provocateur

Max Ufberg
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A former travel photographer and White House staffer under Bill Clinton, Claude Taylor is now best known as one of Twitter’s foremost Trump antagonists. Taylor regularly rails against the president, relying on a patchwork network of unconventional (and sometimes faulty) sources to deliver scathing anti-Trump rants. He also created Mad Dog PAC, an anti-Trump group that has garnered attention for its inflammatory billboards.

Earlier this month, Taylor launched a new Twitter campaign: Room Rater. With so many pundits and politicians recording on-air news segments from the confines of their homes, Taylor and his girlfriend, Jessie Bahrey, offer biting criticisms of their interior decor: Madeleine Albright’s oversaturated library, for example, earned just a four out of 10 (“She won the Balkan War. Bombed here,” Room Rater decreed), while Mike Pence’s office was deemed “Unimaginative” and received a rating of just two out of 10. People seem to have taken to the joke: In a few weeks, the account has accrued some 50,000 followers.

GEN spoke to Taylor over the phone for more intel on exactly what makes for a good…

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