Chaos at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

 For the first time in Trump’s two presidencies, the president had decided to attend the ritzy White House Correspondents’ Dinner, although unlike other years a comedian would not be hosting and roasting the beltway and the notoriously thin-skinned president. Before the event was to begin, chaos erupted with an attempted shooter who was staying at the hotel broke through the relaxed security and according to their manifesto planned to shoot top administration officials.

The perpetrator was stopped and the dinner had been put on pause to continue at a later date. 

As expected, Republicans have used this to attack Democrats’ rhetoric and the President used this to push for his ballroom to continue construction.

There are just some glaring hypocrisies with the right’s arguments  against the left.

First, they attack the language used by the left as violent and decisive. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s Press Secretary cried about Democrats on Monday morning but she conveniently forgot that just moments before the chaos she specifically said “shots would be fired.”

I also find the demand for a ballroom to be ridiculous as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had not been held at the White House in the past so to say an external event never held at the White House justifies such a project is ridiculous. 

The dinner had also saw reduced security for the night, especially with several high-profile administration officials in attendance, such as the president, vice-president, Secretary of Defense, or others. This is somewhat reminiscent of Trump not requiring magnetometers at his January 6th protests and when it turned out people with guns or violent intentions participated, Trump blamed Democrats for the failures of his administration.

I am also reminded of the Chinese national who was able to sneak past initial security protections at Mar-a-Lago during Trump’s first presidency. 

Trump’s administration’s shortcomings should not justify major capital improvements, otherwise they can fail miserably on purpose and use that as a justification to accomplish their goals…

 

Pirro’s Cost Overrun Hypocrisy

Prosecutors for the U.S. District Attorney’s office for District of Columbia visited the construction site for the Federal Reserve but were turned down for attempting to speak with Jerome Powell in the absence of his legal representation. District Attorney Jeanine Pirro defended the move by tweeting “Any construction project that has cost overruns of almost 80% over the original construction budget deserves some serious review. And these people are in charge of monetary policy in the United States?" 

Apparently she did not see the ballooning costs of Trump’s grandiose ballroom, which has more than doubled in cost to over $400 million dollars, and the ballroom has not even begun to be built.