OMG. This is what the Ellipse looks like after thousands of MAGA folks watched the UFC birthday cage fights on big screens, and had a few beer-fueled fights of their own. Beyond the Ellipse is the front lawn of the White House, also stripped of grass. Repairs to just the front lawn were estimated to cost us $770,000. Now.... who knows what it will cost us to restore BOTH?
We, of course, also have the Reflecting Pool to repair. Kiss the $14 million we spent on THAT goodbye. Trump has now decided that "vandals" must be blamed, and has ordered for them to be arrested. There are none. His hydrogen peroxide fix is the culprit. It is a paint stripper. But sure enough, an former 3 time Olympian who reached down from his bike to touch one of the paint strips was tackled and arrested for vandalism to satisfy the Vandal-In-Chief.
And then there is the Kennedy Center. Trump has NOT turned it over to Congress. His appointed board remains in place, so that the tarp covering his removed name stays in place. Oh. And even though the judge ordered the Center re-opened, his board is preventing any acts from being booked. Making sure the Center continues to lose money, so that it costs US money, instead.
Meanwhile, he unveiled his Qatar jet yesterday. The BILLION DOLLAR upgrade WE paid for is complete. We found out we ALSO paid for the huge new hangar that houses it. He bragged that it is the most luxurious airplane in the entire world. And he gets to keep it when he leaves as a gift to his "Presidential Library". Obama didn't have a jet when he opened HIS Library Friday. Trump wins. Yay.
Oh and today he filed another request to the judge who stopped the above ground construction of his ballroom, detailing all the features that really make it a National Security fortress rather than a ballroom, complete with drone ports, and anti-drone weapons, and sniper nests. Because - gee, didn't we see this coming? - there was JUST another "assassination attempt" the FBI thwarted, that involved DRONES. So there you go.
See? National Security. Now we HAVE to pay for it. Just think. Trump could have had his UFC fight in SAFETY. INDOORS, in the ballroom. Of course, his thousands of MAGA fans would still have been on the Ellipse outside, in the open. But who cares about THEIR safety?
Not him. He doesn't care about us, either, or what anything COSTS us. He said so. Out loud.
By the way. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz again. The peace talks are off again. The Stock Market will fall again. Oil will rise again. No biggie. Trump has more important things to think about. His Pool. His Plane. His Ballroom. His planned elevated Trump Promenade to his huge new Arch de Trump.
A new report from that upcoming book says that his favorite hobby these days is taking anything gold that he finds around the White House to decorate his bedroom, so that it is fancier than Melania's. He even takes things from her room to his. Or to the Oval Office. Staff often walks in to find him personally super-gluing more gold things he's ordered, at our expense, to the walls.
But soon Trump will have more important things to do. It's about time for him to bring out the gold striped umbrellas and open up his Club Rose Garden concrete patio for the Season so he can throw exclusive parties for his donors and GOP politicians. It's all about elegance. And taste. And Priorities.
Like his priority to headline his State Fair rally next week. And then, the week after, to take over our 4th of July Celebration and Fireworks for HIS greatest MAGA Rally of all time ...
Glee Violette
