Do things still jump the shark? If that expression hasn’t permanently been put to rest, the Democrats have jumped the shark over President Trump’s renovation of the East Wing of the White House. You might think that most Americans are not deeply concerned about the temporary displacement of the Graphics and Calligraphy Office, and you would be right. But the Democrats are so far gone in TDS that everything he does–up to and including renovating and expanding the hitherto-obscure East Wing–causes them to lose their minds.
Never mind that Barack Obama carried out much more expensive White House renovations, which, unlike Trump’s, were paid for by the taxpayers. Never mind that the effect of Trump’s construction will be a significantly larger–too large!–East Wing. The relatively respectable voices of the Democratic Party look for angles to attack Trump. The New York Times:
Trump didn’t consult experts! But wait, doesn’t Trump have an architect? I believe he does.
The Washington Post thinks the new East Wing will be too darn large. The paper has no fewer than four reporters on the story:
I suppose some would say that the size of the new East Wing reflects the magnitude of Trump’s gift to the taxpayers.
The fact that Democrats are trying to make political hay out of something as benign as an expansion of the East Wing suggests that they know their more important attacks on Trump–for enforcing the immigration laws, per Article II, for closing the border, for killing narco-terrorists, and so on–have fallen flat.
