Yet more stuff that Trump said he would pay for, that he hasn't.
Money once used for crucial national-park repairs is now financing Trump’s redecorating projects.
www.theatlantic.com
I didn't know (or had forgotten) that there was so much work needed for that 'previous presidents' gallery along the walkway with the stupid extra commentary plaques and the unbelievably hilarious autopen picture, and the bill for the replacement paving slabs (african granite, carved in italy, how very 'america first') came in...
As workers tore up the flagstone in March, a reporter asked Trump who was paying for the enhancements. “Paid for by me,” he replied.
But that wasn’t true. Budget documents from the National Park Service that I obtained show that the walkway replacement cost taxpayers $689,232 ...
... in a separate “Rush project at request of POTUS,” the Park Service spent $347,503 to remove and replace the stucco on the colonnade wall, a project that cleared the way for Trump to affix gold frames and plaques mocking some of his predecessors.
And there's a load of stuff here
… The Great American Fair in DC so far has turned out to be, like most Donald Trump productions, somewhat of a disaster.
www.meidasplus.com
about the tremendous America Fair that opened on the National Mall (uniformed bands playing music, uninformed Trump doing the random words thing) that didn't seem to have quite hit the ground running, not even for those who had wanted to be optimistic about it.
Bit long.. second half covers more general stuff e.g. US burned through most of its long range and cruise missile capabilities thanks to the war in Iran, farmers needing serious financial help thanks to the tariffs, and Mike Johnson promising that nobody will be getting investigated for anything just so long as the Democrats can be kept out, which doesn't sound corrupt at all really...