His win/loss ratio is very poor. Everything he tries either fails on its own or fails when someone in the country sues to stop it. And the lawsuits are working. The Reflecting Pool is green already. Yes, he managed to tear down the East Wing, and long may he pay for doing that, but yet has very little work done on the ballroom, that stupid, expensive damn thing he is paying for on our backs, not his so-called private donors that were probably a lie in the first place. More on those to follow. With appreciation for Raw Story:
As President Donald Trump’s vanity projects collapse, the reality of his failures is reflected in his presidency, according to a columnist on Wednesday. Trump has attempted to remodel the White House and build a ballroom, slap his name on the Kennedy Center, and remodel the reflecting pool by spending millions to repaint it dark blue only for algae to return and turn it neon green — but that has all backfired, wrote James Ball, political editor at The New World, in a piece published by The i Paper.
Has it now? Has it all backfired? Let’s think about that. The Reflecting Pool, definitely yes. We were wondering how long it would take for the green to come back. Just over 2 weeks to change, which was either longer or faster depending on who you asked. He wanted it to be another monument to his ‘greatness’, which isn’t great. There are a number of attempts on the above quote, but one needs to be added in. The arch. The one that’s going to screw up the view and stand near Arlington. The ridiculous, uncalled for, only to make Trump happy, arch. It’s going to be just as bad as the ballroom, but if we’re lucky enough to keep stalling it, it may never be built, or the arch.
“Trump, in other words, waded into a complex problem that successive administrations failed to address, declared he alone could fix it, didn’t learn anything about the actual underlying issues, and fell flat on his face,” Ball wrote. “Some readers might be spotting parallels between the reflecting pool and the President’s Middle East policy, but even just sticking to his misadventures in the capital provides no shortage of disasters.” His second term has been marked by missteps, and “laws keep tripping him up,” Ball explained.
He thinks ranting and raving and blustering are going to make construction work go faster. He thinks his ballroom will just magically appear because he’s using our money- no more private donations camouflage, no cost to him, and he didn’t look at the actual laws around it. He is Trump, The President, after all. He wants something done? It should magically appear. But he has stepped on feet, not just on toes, trying to get the ballroom done, the 999-person ballroom with no use. It’s highly likely that more people than just us hate the thing. The cost keeps ballooning because he keeps adding to the underground area. The “attempt on his life” at the Correspondents Dinner was a farce. And Trump had so much trouble getting off the stage that he would have been hit by gunfire. But that is for another time.
“Trump sees himself as a strongman and wants the world to see him in the same way,” Ball wrote. “He thinks Congress and the Supreme Court work for him. Laws are things he gets to write, not things he has to follow. He seems to believe that every other nation has to do what he wants.” Yet Trump has continued running into problems. “But it is a lot harder to project that image when you can’t even manage a home renovation or fix the pool at the bottom of your garden,” Ball wrote.
Home renovation. Nice. No, he can’t manage either one. The ballroom has been delayed for months, even though the judge said the inground work could continue. He hasn’t even started on the arch. The reflecting pool, well, we covered that. He thinks nations should bow down to him. These days, with the Iran War still going, albeit in a ceasefire that Israel keeps screwing up, and yes, Hezbollah is in Lebanon and that’s an ongoing issue, but we need to get Iran to sign something and open back up the Strait of Hormuz to get ships moving, with the knowledge that they can shut it back down at any time. But Trump had to tear up the agreement, so carefully worked on and won by Obama. And now, here we are. ‘Nuff said.
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