David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency, linked President Donald Trump’s complaints about renovations on the Federal Reserve to a “big political problem” the GOP will face in subsequent yr’s midterms.
Axelrod — whereas referring to Trump renewing his risk to sue Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for “gross incompetence” over the renovations on Monday — knocked the president’s “obsession” with such points.
He pointed to how the president took to social media final week to tease marble armrests for seating on the newly Trump-branded Kennedy Center.
“People are saying to themselves, ‘What the hell does that have to do with me? I thought he was going to be fighting for me to bring my costs down?’” Axelrod stated.
Axelrod additionally cited Trump exhibiting off a marbleized ground following renovations of the White House’s Palm Room earlier this yr.
“He seems obsessed with gold and putting his name on things and remodeling buildings and rebuilding monuments to himself,” he stated.
Axelrod declared that the president has a “Marie Antoinette thing” happening.
“That is a big political problem and not for him … but Republicans should be really concerned about what they’re seeing,” he stated.
Since the beginning of his presidency, Trump has decked the Oval Office in gold, paved the Rose Garden over for a patio, demolished the East Wing for a deliberate ballroom (which is anticipated to be named after himself), sprinkled petty swipes at his foes into an already-partisan “Presidential Walk of Fame” alongside the West Wing colonnade and put in huge flagpoles on the White House.
Trump’s title has additionally been slapped on the facade of the constructing that homes the U.S. Institute of Peace, a federal web site for pharmaceuticals, an funding program, a $1 million “gold card” pathway to U.S. citizenship and a deliberate “Trump Class” of so-called “battleships.”
In October, the U.S. Treasury shared plans to mint a coin with Trump’s face on either side in 2026, though such a transfer could also be unlawful.
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