An open letter to the President

Americans need help, not ballrooms!

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What on earth are you doing? While millions of American families are exhausted, anxious, and jobless — in large part because of your reckless, whiplash-style tariff “strategy” — you are pouring time, attention, and taxpayer optics into a gaudy ballroom build-out and a cosmetic remodel of the Lincoln Bathroom as if you’re running a reality-TV set instead of the Executive Branch. Do you hear yourself? Do you understand how grotesquely out-of-touch this is? People are losing hours, losing shifts, losing healthcare coverage. Small business owners are choosing which bill to pay this week. Widows are watering down food to stretch their SNAP dollars. And in the middle of that economic fragility, you’re fussing about marble trim and chandelier wattage like Versailles is the priority. It’s tone-deaf. It’s self-absorbed. It’s leadership malpractice. You talk about “America First,” yet your priorities scream “Me First.” You should be convening economists, trade negotiators, and bipartisan Congressional leaders to stabilize our small-business supply chains — not staging your own glamour renovations. Every hour and every dollar of attention you spend preening over interior décor sends a clear message to the country: You don’t actually feel the pain that regular Americans are living. If you did, you’d be fighting like hell for economic relief and a stable trade environment — not building yourself a ballroom. Stop the vanity. Start governing. America needs a President, not an interior designer.

▶ Created on November 1 by Rachel

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