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Trump's Vanity Projects: Colonnade, Passport, Lafayette Park Trees
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With the fair rained out Sunday, Trump spent the morning motorcading around the Capitol. He toured the East Potomac Golf Links and plans to start renovation of the federally owned public course September 1st despite a federal judge threatening 'serious consequences' without approval. He's also redesigning Lafayette Park to contain exactly 47 maple trees — his favorite — to honor himself as the 47th president. Nobody knows how many trees currently exist there, meaning someone has to go count. Meanwhile, the Atlantic's Michael Scherer revealed that Trump's new White House colonnade — made of polished African granite carved in Italy, and which Trump claimed to have personally paid for — was actually charged to taxpayers for approximately $690,000 [1] — Jon Favreau "Trump's new White House colonnade, made of polished African granite carved in Italy, was claimed by Trump to have been personally paid for.…" 15:15 , with additional hundreds of thousands spent modifying the adjoining wall to hang Trump's own photos. The hosts also mock a limited-edition U.S. passport bearing Trump's photo that he described as saying 'Welcome, but be good' — language that appears nowhere on the document. Jon Lovett's response to all of it: he'd rather have Trump occupied with vanity tree projects than doing real damage, but the double standard is jarring — if Biden had wandered around discussing renovations in his final year, the right would have been calling for the 25th Amendment.
Trump's new White House colonnade, made of polished African granite carved in Italy, was claimed by Trump to have been personally paid for. The Atlantic revealed it cost taxpayers roughly $690,000. Add another couple hundred thousand for wall modifications to hang his pictures, and Americans are footing the bill for Trump's personal redecorating.
The new White House colonnade walkway made of polished African granite carved in Italy, which Trump claimed to have paid for himself, was actually charged to taxpayers at a cost of about $690,000.
Trump is planning to redesign Lafayette Park to contain exactly 47 maple trees — his favorite tree — to honor himself as the 47th president. Nobody knows how many trees are currently there, so someone has to go count them. Tommy Vietor put it simply: no narcissistic stone will go unturned by this man.
