{"id":713,"date":"2026-06-04T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:47:01","slug":"trump-goon-gives-bonkers-speech-at-putins-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goon Gives Bonkers Speech at Putin\u2019s Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s favorite architect is in Russia parading designs for the president\u2019s D.C. vanity projects at Vladimir Putin\u2019s knockoff version of Davos.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=711\">Dire Warning to Trump About Major Price Spike Exposed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodney Mims Cook Jr., whom Trump appointed as chair of the Commission of Fine Arts last January, delivered his speech on White House efforts to make over the U.S. capital during a panel discussion at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum\u2014a Russian analog to the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe president has asked me to help him oversee an addition to the White House,\u201d Cook preened as he addressed the roundtable, sitting beside American actor Steven Seagal, himself a known Putin apologist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is the White House ballroom wing,\u201d Cook told the panel, presenting a mock-up of the gleaming marble monument now being constructed on the site where the building\u2019s historic East Wing once stood.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ballroom project at the White House has come under intense fire from preservationists for demolishing 123 years of U.S. history. Government ethics watchdogs have also blasted the fact that the bulk of its funding has come from corporations and billionaires with significant business pending before the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Its price tag has ballooned from $200 million to $400 million, and could soon include a further $1 billion of taxpayer money if a Senate Republican bill earmarking that sum for \u201csecurity\u201d around the project becomes law. Trump had initially pledged that not a single taxpayer dollar would go toward the project. <\/p>\n<p>Cook was even more gleeful presenting the president\u2019s plans for an \u201cArc de Trump\u201d near Arlington National Cemetery, itself loosely modeled on the \u201cArc de Triomphe\u201d of Paris fame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s arch is 166 feet tall. I assist him and oversee that as well,\u201d Cook gloated. \u201cThe president is very proud of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said they\u2019d encountered \u201csome issues\u201d with the fastenings for a figure to be installed at the top of the monument. \u201cI said, \u2018Mr President, I think your angel might fly up to Arlington House with a wind gust,\u201d he quipped to zero laughter from his fellow panelists.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=710\">CNN Data Guru Blown Away by Trump\u2019s Stunning Disaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cook concluded his parade of Trump\u2019s D.C. vanity projects by noting there has been \u201csome interesting humor in America\u201d comparing the president\u2019s arch project to the garish \u201cGolden Arches\u201d of the McDonald\u2019s logo. Again, not even a smirk from others around the table. <\/p>\n<p>The moderator remarked after Cook was done talking that after such an \u201cextensive overview\u201d of these and other feats throughout the architect\u2019s career, he was \u201creally puzzled as to who I should next pass the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics have repeatedly blasted Trump\u2019s self-iconographizing plans for the nation\u2019s capital\u2014such as his \u201cAmerican Flag Blue\u201d refurb of the Reflecting Pool and rebranding the Kennedy Center in his own name\u2014as giving off dictatorial vibes. <\/p>\n<p>If those efforts failed to impress Cook\u2019s fellow panelists, it\u2019s likely because Putin is himself the world\u2019s dictator-supreme, with a litany of his own vanity projects to show for it\u2014such as his $1.3 billion Black Sea palace, or the record-breaking $50 billion his government spent on the Sochi Olympics, or the $3.6 billion bridge he built to annexed Crimea, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>Cook is the first U.S. official to attend the St. Petersburg forum since then-ambassador John Tefft in 2017, before the war in Ukraine. Most Western governments and companies have boycotted the forum since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by Kremlin sycophant Steven Seagal, he\u2019s nevertheless part of a larger contingent Trump is reported to have dispatched to represent U.S. interests at this year\u2019s event. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted to lawmakers during a Senate hearing earlier in the day that he had no idea a U.S. delegation was there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not aware of the delegation that went,\u201d he told Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin. \u201cI\u2019m aware of the event, I know they were hosting one. But I don\u2019t think it will have been a high-level official\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what level it is,\u201d Durbin interjected. \u201cBut to think we had anything official that included Steven Seagal, the actor, as one of the people representing the United States\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=708\">Trump Nemesis Reaches Plea Deal on Mishandling Classified Docs<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment on this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s favorite architect is in Russia parading designs for the president\u2019s D.C. vanity projects at Vladimir Putin\u2019s knockoff version of Davos. 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