Trump’s Golden Age or Gilded Age?

[HighStepper]

Donald Trump has declared the start of a new "Golden Age" for America during his second term in office. Some are comparing this to the Gilded Age.
FOR THOSE THAT FIND HISTORY INFORMATIVE AND INSTRUCTIVE.
The Gilded Age | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpYzFtxfjU&t=155s

THE GILDED AGE presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. Video length. 1:53:11

• During the Gilded Age, Americans feel quite certainly that they are the vanguard of civilization and progress. This is an enormous period of opportunity, and possibility, and hope.
• Gilded is not golden. Gilded has the sense of a patina covering something else.
• When this nation comes out of the Civil War, we are still a nation divided by regions.

Tens of thousands of young men and women from farm families could hop on the train to go where the jobs were.

• Railroads knit the entire country together in a way that hadn't existed before. So now merchants, manufacturers, industrialists can think nationally. You don't have to think simply in terms of your local market. If you have a good idea, if you have a good procedure for producing something, you can think of selling your goods all over the country.
• Thirty years after the Civil War, America had transformed into an economic powerhouse.
• Americans prided themselves on their inventiveness, their ingenuity, their entrepreneurial get-up-and-go.

FOR THOSE THAT WANT THE "CLIFF NOTES" VERSION OF THE GILDED AGE
America achieved its peak in the late 19th century. At that time, the US managed to achieve change in many aspects, from economic and social to political and military. This period of growth has become known as the Gilded Age. Video length 12:27 minutes
The Gilded Age: The 'High' Point in America's History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMpztX2c29I

[dogwalker]

I think it's too early to tell, as least for me.
Let's hope the US population does not doubles soon.
That would create some huge problems.

[Danno]

you get a gold toilet, you get a gold toilet, everyone gets a gold toilet.