Trump's Closing Pitch: "Admire My Botched Vanity Project!"

 

Even given that it's Dementia Don, this has to be one of the most insane closing arguments ever made in a campaign:

President Donald Trump on Monday concluded his midterm push with a closing argument like no other: Look what I did with the Reflecting Pool.

The president spoke at the historic pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, about six months after he began rushed renovations that quickly went awry. The longtime real estate developer has insisted the project shows how he can fix Washington — and one of its signature monuments.

“They’re brand-new pipes put in, and the pipes are being very important in terms of the algae and other things,” Trump said as he held up photos of past damage to the pool and discussed caulking, painting and other work in detail. “It’s a complete job, and we’re very proud of it.”

The 53-minute-long event was notably quiet and lower energy than Trump’s frequently lively rallies, with only several dozen people and members of the press in attendance. After Trump’s remarks concluded, his motorcade slowly wound its way past the pool, allowing the president to admire it...  (our emphasis)

Laser focused on the needs of the American people!  

Percy Bysshe Shelley said it better back in 1818:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

(Photo:  Mark Schiefelbein /AP)