Trump painting the Reflecting Pool is another useless distraction |
Inflation has surged to the highest level in three years, the cost of living is up and we’re stuck in a war with Iran. But don’t worry. President Donald Trump is busy painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.
Hopefully, this new $13 million pool project doesn’t distract him from his now more than $1 billion White House ballroom project. Or from his $100 million Triumphal Arch project. Or from putting his face on U.S. currency and passports. And his name on buildings and airports.
That sounds like sarcasm, but I’ve settled into what may be a controversial opinion: Let Trump build his vanity projects. Let his Republican boot-smoochers etch “President Donald J. Trump” into marble facades and slap that moniker on whichever edifice or coin or government document they see fit.
Let his failed presidency remain a stain for generations to laugh at.
Let Trump paint the Reflecting Pool and build monuments to himself
You’re likely waiting for me to write something along the lines of, “And then, when the would-be/wannabe king is gone, we can rip the name down, burn the documents and sandblast the Donald J. Trump off every stone surface!”
But that’s not what I want. Not at all.
When Trump’s second term ends, assuming America makes it that far, I want his name and image and his every act of tone-deaf, unchecked narcissism left standing. I want the Reflecting Pool to stay a garish bright blue, like a Mar-a-Lago swimming pool on the National Mall.
I want his........