President Donald Trump, who allegedly plagiarized another family’s coat of arms to affix his own crest to his golf properties and merchandise, has brought a decidedly monarchical flair to Barack Obama’s “dump” of a White House. A down-market simulacrum of Trump Tower’s Louis XIV stylings now pervades the Oval Office, where drab gold curtains frame its south-facing windows, and the midcentury furniture has been swapped for more gold-hued upholstery. First Daughter Ivanka Trump and princeling Jared Kushner have taken up residence in the West Wing, turning the People’s House into a sort of royal home office. (As my colleague Sarah Ellison reported, Trump’s advisers have taken to referring to Ivanka as the “princess royal” behind her back.) But even Jared and Ivanka, both scions of New York real-estate dynasties, haven’t engaged in the sort of queenly behavior demonstrated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who seems to have come to believe he’s the baronet of some Central European fiefdom rather than a U.S. Cabinet official.

The Washington Post reports that each day is Zinke Day at the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., where a staffer is required to scramble up to the building’s roof to raise a “special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building.” He “displays animal heads on his wood-paneled office walls” and filled his office with decorative hunting knives, though he supposedly removed them after being informed that they posed a security risk. “When the secretary goes home for the day or travels, the flag—a blue banner emblazoned with the agency’s bison seal flanked by seven white stars representing the Interior bureaus—comes down.”

Within the department, he seems to be cultivating a minor cult of personality. Zinke, who rode a horse to his first day on the job, has had “commemorative coins” commissioned with his name on them to distribute to staff and visitors. While personal flags are a custom in the military, even Joseph McMillan, a retired Defense Department official and president of the American Heraldry Society is suspicious. “I’m all about tradition,” he told the Post. “But I kind of have an aversion to militarizing everything in our government. The world doesn’t need to know the secretary of the Interior is in the building.” Or as Chris Lu, deputy Labor secretary under Obama put it, “We’re talking about Cabinet members and federal buildings, not the Queen of England and Buckingham Palace.” (A spokesperson defended the practice as “a major sign of transparency.”)

Elsewhere in Zinke news, the secretary has recently come under fire for questionable travel on taxpayer-funded private jets, which actually makes a lot more sense in the context of him apparently fancying himself some kind of sovereign. (Zinke has called the criticism “complete and utter bullshit.”) He also upset many employees at his agency by saying in a speech that 30 percent of them are “not loyal to the flag,” which we can apparently now take as a literal, not figurative, reference.