David Pakman

Projects like this usually go through years of review.

You have public meetings, you have revisions, you have debate.

Trump has decided that because his friends are donating in order to fund this, he can just do it.

That's it.

And they rushed the process.

There was one review meeting which reportedly lasted 12 minutes.

And in theory, construction is moving forward.

Now, the reason I say in theory, construction has started in the sense that they've already done a lot of demolishing.

But there are a number of architectural problems that have come up and the main architect even quit previously.

I told you about that.

So this is a microcosm of how Donald Trump operates.

He says he knows more than things than any about things than anybody.

He goes ahead and just does what occurs to him, even if it doesn't make any sense.

There's no scrutiny.

He doesn't actually empower experts to make decisions.

And he is going to potentially destroy what is at the end of the day, the people's house.

It does belong to the public.

But it's not feeling like that.

Trump is treating it like it's his Mar-a-Lago penthouse.

And they're going to put together this oversized, rushed, gaudy building with fake windows, stairs to nowhere and all of this unless something put it puts a stop to this.