Former Obama adviser David Axelrod says the GOP ought to be on edge over Trump’s ‘Marie Antoinette thing’ | EUROtoday

CNN Chief Political Analyst David Axelrod has mentioned Republicans ought to be on edge over Donald Trump’s give attention to reworking Washington D.C., which he calls the president’s “Marie Antoinette thing.”

Trump has slapped marble down within the Palm Room, painted the Oval Office gold, paved over the Rose Garden for a brand new patio and most notably torn down the East Wing for his multi-million greenback ballroom.

His renovation plans have gone past the White House, together with an Arc de Triomphe-style arch on the fringe of D.C. and marble armrests for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was not too long ago renamed to incorporate the president’s moniker.

But Axelrod, who beforehand served as a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, warned that these reveals of extravagance received’t sit nicely with voters who’re battling the price of residing.

“People are sitting around and thinking about how they’re gonna pay their bills and [Trump’s] posting stuff about how he’s gonna have marble handrails at the Kennedy Center and he’s posting pictures of his new marble Palm Room at the White House and so on,” Axelrod not too long ago mentioned on CNN.

He continued: “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.’ And he seems obsessed with gold and putting his name on things and remodeling buildings and rebuilding monuments to himself.”

On the marketing campaign path, Trump promised voters he’d begin bringing costs down “starting on Day One.”

Inflation has been cooling, with costs rising at a 2.7 p.c annual price in November, down from 3 p.c in September, in line with the federal government’s Consumer Price Index.

While meals prices are happening, power prices are ticking up. The value of meals rose 2.6 p.c in November in comparison with the yr earlier than, decrease than 3.1 p.c in September, in line with authorities information. The value of power rose 4.2 p.c in November in comparison with the earlier yr, up from 2.8 p.c in September.

Axelrod says Trump’s efforts to rework his present house amid an affordability disaster, “is a huge political problem for him.”

“It’s a symbol of his distraction. It’s the Marie Antoinette thing that he’s got going. That is a big political problem,” the political analyst mentioned, including that whereas Trump will not be on the poll within the 2026 midterm elections, “Republicans should be really concerned about what they’re seeing.”

This isn’t the primary time Trump has been in comparison with the final queen of France, who turned an emblem of egocentric luxurious as the general public went hungry, forward of the French Revolution.

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom, recognized for trolling Trump on-line, shared an AI-generated picture of Trump as Marie Antoinette in November throughout the longest authorities shutdown in U.S. historical past.

Newsom’s press group shared the picture on X, together with the caption “GOOD NIGHT, PEASANTS!” in response to a report that Trump was touring to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida as Americans confronted flight delays and cancellations from the shutdown.