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Following the failed attempt on President Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents Dinner, lapdog Republicans and their media allies rushed to capitalize by arguing that the episode proves his very unpopular White House ballroom project has always been about presidential safety, not a self-glorifying tribute to himself.
“Everyone thought this was Trump making a monument to Trump. This is a vanity project,” the reliably smarmy Sen. Lindsey Graham snorted at Trump’s critics. (Graham wants to spend taxpayer dollars on the ballroom project, which he describes as “very national security-centric.”)
On cue, over the ensuing five days came news will have his face superimposed on US passports, and that he reportedly considers himself alongside Napoleon and Caesar among the most significant figures in human history. Yeah, Lindsey, the Braggart-in-Chief exhibits nary a whiff of vanity.
Last week’s round of self-glorification is nothing new. Trump has already bullied politicians or board members into renaming the Palm Beach airport and the Kennedy Center after him. He forced the National Park Service to add his face alongside George Washington’s on the annual park pass. A $60 million UFC event will celebrate his birthday on the White House lawn this June. Oh, and when asked what the massive, 250-foot arch he wants erected shall commemorate, Trump answered with his favorite word: “me.”
So you’ll forgive Trump’s critics for concluding that his megalomaniacal second term ambitions have nothing to do with solving immigration, boosting the economy, or securing global peace. He’s too busy plastering his name, image, and tacky gold leafing on anything and everything he can.
Welcome to the Vanity Presidency, folks.
He’s so vain
Perhaps you already noticed almost every thing he does or says has a common theme: him.
He comes first. His greedy wife and kids are perhaps next, followed by a long and growing list of crypto-crooks and broligarch buddies.
Despite his clever marketing slogan, at best you and the rest of America rank fifth — and only if you’re MAGA. (Actually, nah: You think a man who respects none of the other presidents respects his most gullible marks?)
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He’s not a public servant, but a self-server. Preserve, protect, and defend? Mere recommendations on faded parchment to be ignored when convenient. Besides, he’s bigger than the Constitution and all those silly amendments.
Face it, he’s the best, the smartest, the greatest — a one-man superlative. Everything he does is yuge, every achievement so profoundly novel that “nobody has ever seen anything like it before.”