{"id":2625,"date":"2026-07-01T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:12:32","slug":"manic-trump-80-takes-unpopular-obsession-to-new-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Manic Trump, 80, Takes Unpopular Obsession to New Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Donald Trump is utterly obsessed with his tacky vanity projects across the nation\u2019s capital, and now there are numbers to prove it. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2624\">Trump, 80, Turns Death Tribute Into Weird Brag About Himself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Washington Post analysis, drawn from the president\u2019s speeches, interviews, and online posts, found he mentioned his Washington, D.C., refurbishment efforts almost every day last month. It marks a steep rise from roughly one in three days in January, and one in eight days last June. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The real estate mogul has, for three months straight, invoked his building plans more often than healthcare or wages, the newspaper reported. \u201cIt\u2019s where he is the most comfortable,\u201d Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, told the Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 80-year-old president spent Sunday touring the capital, stopping by a park, the public golf links he wants to widen, and the roundabout earmarked for his 250-foot \u201cTriumphal Arch.\u201d He later called the sites \u201ceven nicer than the day they were built\u201d in a Truth Social post running to 589 words. <\/p>\n<p>The arch, slated for construction at Memorial Circle, has sparked significant pushback. A group of Vietnam War veterans sued in February to halt the plans, arguing they represent an insult to the memory of fallen soldiers by threatening to obscure views of Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 400,000 people are buried. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2622\">Trump Confronted in \u2018Shocking\u2019 Oval Office Clash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the ballroom. Trump razed the White House East Wing in October to make way for the 90,000-square-foot extension. The president pledged it would cost $200 million, funded entirely by private donations. The true price tag has since emerged at $600 million, with more than half to be paid by taxpayers. <\/p>\n<p>His refurb of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been a disaster. The Interior Department handed a no-bid deal to a Trump-allied contractor to recoat the basin \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d Costs have soared past $14.7 million, and the project has so far succeeded only in turning the monument\u2019s waters a vibrant green with its worst algal bloom for years.<\/p>\n<p>Voters have proven considerably less hot on the broader effort than the president is. A Washington Post poll in April found 52 percent opposed the arch, against just 21 percent in favor, with 56 percent objecting to the ballroom while only 28 percent backed it. <\/p>\n<p>The White House has defended the campaign. \u201cPresident Trump remains laser-focused on lowering costs for working families, keeping the American people safe, and making this country greater than ever before\u2014including the long-overdue beautification of our nation\u2019s capital,\u201d spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the Post. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2620\">First-Term Trump Lawyer Torches President\u2019s \u2018Onslaught of Corruption\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted Trump\u2019s office for further comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is utterly obsessed with his tacky vanity projects across the nation\u2019s capital, and now there are numbers to prove it. Read more Trump, 80, Turns Death Tribute Into Weird Brag About Himself A new Washington Post analysis, drawn from the president\u2019s speeches, interviews, and online posts, found he mentioned his Washington, D.C., refurbishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manic Trump, 80, Takes Unpopular Obsession to New Extreme - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2625\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manic Trump, 80, Takes Unpopular Obsession to New Extreme - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump is utterly obsessed with his tacky vanity projects across the nation\u2019s capital, and now there are numbers to prove it. 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