Former Homeland Security aide Miles Taylor ripped into President Donald Trump on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House," saying that his ballroom project writes its own attack ads and Democrats hardly have their work cut out for them at all.
This comes as even Republican lawmakers fight over the new proposal to include $1 billion in funding for the project.
MS NOW's Ayman Mohyeldin started the segment by showing pictures of the construction of the ballroom. "How do Democrats use these images ... in the midterms, with him also saying he does not care about the financial concerns of Americans when so many Americans are struggling economically?" He added that these commercials "basically write themselves."
Taylor, best known as the author of the anonymous "resistance" op-ed in the first Trump administration, agreed with that assessment.
"There's almost nothing that Democratic operatives need to do other than just news-boost these stories," he said, adding that "the more the American people become aware of this, the more disgusted they are. And this isn't just the left. I mean, we are seeing Donald Trump's numbers among independents cratering. We are seeing MAGA audiences breaking away from the president. And it's because of things like this."
In short, Taylor said, Trump is "handing a gift to the Democrats."
Furthermore, he added, speaking as a former security staffer in multiple presidential administrations, "I can tell you unequivocally, from a security standpoint, there is no purpose to this. It is purely a vanity project. This is not a national security project. There is no need for it whatsoever. Anything the president says about it should be couched in the fact that he wants a place to dance and throw parties, and that is what this is about."
"Oh, and by the way, he wants to put his name on something that lasts longer than him," Taylor concluded. "But I can assure you of one thing. His name will come off that ballroom if it gets built, and there's a good chance that ballroom gets deconstructed if he goes forward with it."
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