'Morning Joe' Says Trump Is Turning the White House Into a 'Country Club for the Wealthy and Rich'
“Morning Joe” called out President Trump Friday for not only demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for his new, extravagant ballroom, but also for doing it at a time when many Americans are struggling because of the ongoing government shutdown saying the new project would only benefit the rich.
“Morning Joe” co-anchor Willie Geist noted at the top of the segment that a recent poll found only 28% of Americans support Trump’s ballroom project. “Who is that 28%? Are these MAGA people that are having trouble paying their car loans and paying their health care costs?” host Joe Scarborough asked in response. “They’re going, ‘Oh, I love the idea of the president deciding in the middle of this crisis and government shutdown to tear down half of the White House and put up a Marie Antoinette Memorial Ballroom?'”
“With everything that’s going on right now, is there no Republican that can go over to the White House and say, ‘Mr. President, you’re really not helping matters here?'” Scarborough inquired again, as he and his fellow panelists touched on the American public’s dwindling view of the Republican Party amid the current shutdown. Journalist Sam Stein echoed Scarborough’s sentiments, marveling at the poor timing of Trump’s White House destruction.
“The metaphor, obviously, of tearing down the White House is one thing, but the building of a structure that’s going to dwarf the White House and to have it financed by the biggest corporations in the world and have it decked out in gold and dangle the possibility that it’s going to be the ‘Donald J. Trump Ballroom’?” Stein explained. “This isn’t genius stuff to realize this is going to backfire on you.”
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I still wonder how his employee dropped dead at her desk in his office 20 years ago. Very suspicious. 