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I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

pbump.netThe president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t hisEven if only intuitively, Donald Trump knows that the White House is a storehouse of power. He understands that, like the government itself, it is an institution that our impartial democratic system h...

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It’s only not his if somebody in congress or the SC stops him. But they won’t. America failed. Visigoths at the gate. Enjoy what’s left of it while it lasts.

"We got someone with decades of experience in putting his name on things and vacuuming up money from all available sources and he’s putting that experience to work." Yeah I have always found it ridiculous that 'running the govt like a business' could be put forth as a positive.

Who cares what he does or doesn't know or understand? That's why we're *supposed* to have checks on presidential actions like this. Congress is *supposed* to know. So where are those ineffectual cowards? We should all be asking that question.

Thanks for this insightful piece; the observations about his 2020 speech are spot on. It also occurs to me, as a lifelong renter, that Trump has never lived anywhere he couldn’t overhaul to fit his desires (even at military school and college, I expect he lived wherever/however he wanted).

Very good point. But heard this morning that it’s National Parks who need to handle this his and they’ve not even received a plan; when they saw what had happened and pushed the WH, the response was that a plan would be coming “soon.” WH sq ft: 55,000 Epstein Ballroom: 90,000 NINETY THOUSAND

Because he’ll look like them! I watch a born again Black man’s Christian videos on Instagram. Concerning the spiritual condition of the church, world wide. He said recently,”Black people are the only race in the whole world, waiting to go to Heaven.” Everyone else is having their Heaven on earth!

The obvious next move is to have the National Archives deliver the actual Constitution to the Mar-a-Lago Patio so that Trump and Vance and Bondi and Mike Johnson and Little Stevie can tear it to shreds and then toast the end of the Republic with Diet Cokes and well-done steaks.

I will repeat myself: This is what happens when we give control to someone whose worldview is defined by the belief that everything (and everyone) can be owned, and if it is not owned by him, that is a problem to be rectified.

It seems likely that a person whose whole life, from his earliest days, was defined by being part of the landlord class, would be unable or unwilling to conceive of himself as a tenant. Even (especially) in a house that’s ostensibly owned by the American people.