While America Tightens Its Belt, Trump Polishes the Gold

A president’s vanity projects climb toward $500 million as working families struggle to pay rent, utilities, and grocery bills.

While the headlines fixated on the “release” of the Epstein files, military strikes and kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela, and civilian uprisings in Iran, another kind of story has more quietly been unfolding at home, one that speaks volumes about power, priorities, and who pays the price. In the dead of winter, with only demolition complete and no fina…