1. United States
2. Letter

While millions of Americans struggle to pay rent, buy food, and see a doctor, you’ve chosen to build a gilded monument to excess on public grounds. Even if not a single taxpayer dollar goes toward the marble or gold leaf, every agency, security team, and logistical detail will still draw from public funds. Americans are subsidizing vanity while schools, hospitals, and disaster relief programs face cuts. If the goal were to serve the people, you’d invest two hundred million dollars in rebuilding homes lost to floods, supporting rural hospitals, or caring for veterans sleeping in tents. Instead, you’ve built a ballroom fit for a king. As hardship deepens across this nation, our president dances while the country burns.