President Donald Trump's obsession with chasing his vanity projects has revealed how he dismisses his loyal followers, an analyst reported.
During an MS NOW panel discussion on Saturday, Bloomberg Opinion Senior Executive Editor Tim O'Brien described the golden statue, Trump library financing and the White House ballroom. He explained why Trump's request for $1 billion in taxpayer money stems from his own desires, including the "$7 million he's feeding to the Mar-a-Lago contractor" for painting the reflecting pool and his other passion project.
"And let's not forget the Triumphal Arch that he wants to build on the Memorial Bridge," O'Brien said. "Equally tacky, equally outsized. Donald Trump has very bad taste. He's using the public purse to both self-aggrandize and give us constant lessons that he has the worst taste of anybody on the public scene right now."
And there's a reason he thinks he can do it, O'Brien added.
"Because he believes his own voters are suckers," O'Brien said. "Donald Trump ran a casino. You know, he brought people in on the premise that if you dumped enough quarters into his machines, you would get rich, and that it's the same grift he's doing now in the White House."
