Trump abandons ship: GOP left to sink under the burden of a profoundly unpopular president
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I'm gonna give it to you straight. Donald Trump doesn't have a damn clue what's going on right now. He was apparently blindsided by the Pentagon's dire munitions uh shortages, shortages due to his own war, his ongoing war with Iran. He refuses to acknowledge that voters aren't buying the golden age economy he's trying to sell. And now he isn't even interested in campaigning for Republicans. Republicans with the midterms less than ninety days away. In an interview with Punch Bowl News today, Trump said, and I quote, I didn't have to be supporting all the people. I have a busy schedule. Trump added, I said to somebody, wait a minute. You don't understand. I won. I'm not campaigning. Yep, that's the leader of the Republican Party.
The guy that Republicans have backed again and again and again and again, regardless of how corrupt or immoral he is or becomes. And so, yeah, of course he's annoyed that he has to campaign for them. So, what would Trump rather spend his time on? Вал, акордні тоді, Нью-Йорк Тимс. And Maggie Aber Haberman. Trump is mostly focused on his pet projects.
How much of his time actually goes into the renovation now?
A lot.
Why does Donald Trump appear to be distancing himself from the Republican Party before the midterms?
If you look to like like a chart of his mind share. Like this I will say about getting into his mind. Um, like seventy percent of it would be on his renovations. It's it's it's a legacy thing, but it's It's I always think of legacy with him different than the way we usually use the word legacy. It's all it's Um it's not what am I leaving behind for the world? It's what can I do that cannot be taken away.
And maybe you're thinking to yourself, how could a president of the United States spend seventy percent of his time thinking about renovations? Well, think about all the changes to the White House he's been bragging about over the past year. All the time he spent talking about the renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, all the time he spent going on and on and on and on about his four hundred million dollar ballroom. You take all that into account and seventy percent of his mind share might be a conservative estimate. Still. You don't buy the estimate? Okay. Well here's Trump just today, at a round table that was supposed to be focused on shoring up supplies of critical minerals.
The president's allowed to remove things from any building. And I'm liking the chandeliers. I really I like those Corinthian columns, but I don't know. Cutting 'em out would be not good. Those are beautiful columns. But uh I'm allowed to do it. Every once in a while I'll come in here and grab a painting and put it at the Oval Office, right? But not too much.
What can you say? That guy loves interior decorating. So if you're on board with the idea that seventy percent of Trump's brain is focused on his renovations. Well, that seventy percent is pretty pissed off tonight. Because today a federal appeals court ordered that Trump administration to stop construction on the dude's beloved ballroom. In a two-to-one decision, the court ruled that the administration very likely lacked authority to demolish the White House East Wing and build Trump's ballroom without approval from Congress. And one of the judges wrote this: Each president is a temporary tenant, not the owner of the White House and his executive residence. That's right. The court ruled that under the Constitution, Trump is like every other president before him, just another temporary tenant of the White House.
He doesn't get to bulldoze whatever he wants. But of course, Trump thinks he owns everything.
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