Congressional Cowards is a weekly sequence highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—irrespective of how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Congressional Republicans this week bent over backward to defend President Donald Trump’s unilateral resolution to raze the complete East Wing of the White Home to make method for his hideously gaudy $300 million ballroom.
Republicans mocked Democrats, who’re outraged that Trump determined to demolish a whole section of the White Home to construct a ballroom corruptly funded by donors who’ve enterprise earlier than the federal authorities.
“He put up some of his own money,” Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-LA) mentioned of the undertaking, regardless that we do not know how a lot Trump—who notoriously stiffs his contractors—really gave to the undertaking. “You would think, ‘Well gee whiz, at least they could agree to that, it’s not even taxpayer money, it’s gonna be a permanent renovation that will enhance the White House for all future presidents.”
Sadly for Scalise, People don’t agree with that evaluation, with simply 23% of adults saying they suppose the ballroom could have a constructive affect on the White Home, in accordance with a YouGov survey.
However Scalise continued his whiny tirade.
“They say no to everything he does,” Scalise mentioned. “Because they just are angry about the results of the election from last year.”
Sure, we’re offended. However it’s as a result of every single day Trump does one thing so egregiously corrupt and unlawful that it’s main this nation into banana republic territory.
“Presidents have routinely renovated and expanded the White House over the last century. The faux outrage from the Left is a deflection from the Schumer Shutdown,” Trump bootlicker Rep. Andy Biggs wrote in a publish on X. “Leftists are severely afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the Arizona Republican claimed.
After all, these initiatives had approval from Congress, enter from historic preservation boards, and weren’t funded by a corrupt pay-to-play scheme. However okay.
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Sen. Mike Lee of Utah additionally mocked Democrats’ outrage.
“I’m shaking right now. The humanity!” he wrote in a sarcastic publish on X that featured photos from previous White Home renovations.
After all, the picture Burchett posted was NOT from Obama’s basketball court docket “construction”—which really wasn’t building in any respect however quite changing an current tennis court docket in order that he might shoot some hoops whereas Republicans painted him out to be the antichrist as a result of his pores and skin wasn’t white.
Burchett in the end deleted the publish and put within the right time the picture occurred, which was in the course of the Truman administration. However that also would not make the purpose he thinks he is making, as Truman needed to renovate the White Home as a result of it was structurally unsound. And he did so along with historic preservation boards that labored to reuse current ornamental parts within the new constructing, and with congressional approval and funding.
In line with the Truman presidential library, “The Truman renovation retained the original walls, the third floor and the roof, while removing, and then reinstalling, the interiors within a skeleton of steel structural beams on a new concrete foundation.”
Trump, in the meantime, took a literal excavator to the construction—and is now blocking the press from seeing the destruction because it unfolds.
Just one Republican had the sense to say that, really, razing a significant portion of the White Home to construct a gilded ballroom amid a shutdown when many federal employees don’t get paid just isn’t an ideal look.
“We’re in the middle of a shutdown,” North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said. “Got a couple of other things going on that we should probably focus on ahead of a building project.”
After all, Tillis is retiring, so he now not has to lick Trump’s boots like his fellow GOP colleagues, who’re afraid that talking out in opposition to Expensive Chief will value them their seats in Congress—or worse.
As a result of, say it with me now: They’re all cowards.
