Humiliating disaster on the Mall

[struggle4progress]

MS NOW
Jul 2, 2026

Jen Psaki makes the case that Donald Trump's failed "state fair" and his other calamitous projects at the seat of American government is an encapsulation of his entire presidency, from overblown vanity projects to sketchy budgets to utter incompetence to weaponizing his Justice Department to help feed his cover story.

[jmbar2]

1. It was the plan - they stole the money, and put up cardboard Potemkin village as a prop.

See Jared Huffman's video on it.

[malaise]

2. Shit like this happens

When kakistocracies replace competent government.
These effers have no respect for or understanding of any or all matters knowledge, expertise or competence

[Justice matters.]

3. The only two things they want are:

1. Fill up their pockets as much obscenely as possible with other people's money (actually, from the national credit card it will not be them to pay back plus interests, but the nation's grand kids and their grand kids).

2. Manage by all means necessary, including violence (as we've seen), to remain in power illegally.

Gas-lighting, coercing, blackmailing, fear-mongering propaganda is their tools to achieve those two.

[malaise]

9. Nailed it

Wealth, power, white supremacy and control over women

[MLWR]

4. Rick Wilson said it best: ETTD.

[yardwork]

5. It's all bribery and grifting.

[BonnieJW]

6. And money laundering

[llmart]

7. I never again want to hear about how "welfare queens" are costing the US too much.

The Republicans - every last one of them - are robbing our Treasury blind.

[Wounded Bear]

10. That was always bullshit, especially back when Reagan said it...nt

[some_of_us_are_sane]

8. "overblown vanity project".....

that's Trump's presidency in a nutshell.

(And "NUTSHELL" is the perfect description of the White House during the Trump years.)