The continuing saga of the White House ballroom is yet another sign that everything Donald Trump touches turns to anything but gold.

Even Republicans avoided a vote on the recent US$1 billion ($1.4 billion) security bill for Trump’s ballroom – leaving the whole project up in the air.

Strength in Numbers, the G. Elliott Morris substack, reports that 68 per cent of respondents oppose spending US$1 billion on the ballroom, 57 per cent oppose it strongly and only 21 per cent support it.

Some 86 per cent of Democrats strongly oppose the spending, while 52 per cent of independents also strongly oppose the plan and 9 per cent somewhat oppose it. Only 20 per cent of Republicans strongly support the plan, with 22 per cent somewhat supporting it.

They all seem to remember that Trump promised the ballroom would be paid for entirely by private donors.

Perhaps more importantly, Republican senators, having serious doubts about the project, have gone into recess without voting on the proposed funding.

Consumer confidence in the Trump administration is also falling.........

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