When President Donald Trump went on his destructive East Wing rampage, he reassured an anxious nation that his ballroom would not be paid for with $400 million in tax dollars but rather through personal and corporate contributions. As those contributions have apparently not been as forthcoming as hoped, despite presidential threats and promises, there is now a huge White House hole in the ground that needs something in it – bad optics.
It’s time to play the card that is always a winner: national security.
I don’t know about you, but I, for one, am going to feel a whole lot more secure knowing my money is going someplace other than my gas tank and that, upon project completion, I will be doing the Maracaibo Mambo in Versailles West, surrounded by all my billionaire buddies whose money is still in their wallets and not in the ballroom.
This is a right-out-in-the-open question for CD3 Rep. Jeff Hurd: Do you support putting tax dollars into paying for Trump’s ballroom? Please do not insult your constituents or demean yourself by saying that building a ballroom is a matter of national security. Your CD3 constituents know that is rubbish.
So which is it? Four hundred million tax dollars for a monument to himself, or perhaps three dozen more Secret Service agents to keep an eye on our president when he attends dinners at venues deemed unsecured?
I am asking this directly because neither your Washington nor local offices are responsive.
Josh Joswick
Bayfield