Tourists and locals were converging on the site where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke and where protesters denounced the Vietnam War, just to catch a glimpse of the wayward sealant—or perhaps even a souvenir.
“Taking a piece of paint is like taking a piece of the Berlin Wall,” one cyclist passing by told me. “It’s a piece of history.”
So a poorly-planned and sloppily-executed intervention leaves us with an unsightly, expensive mess that’s worse than it was before. This administration really likes to stick to a theme.
What are you talking about? It was massive success. Trump took a 1.7 million dollar project, and ballooned it into a $14 million boondoggle that made him about $10 million, and his contractor buddy about $3 million, so he’ll definitely be on board for the next scheme. It achieved ALL its objectives.
Like his casino bankruptcies. Those weren’t incompetence, it was a business model. Buy a casino, rape it for every penny of profit, get as much public money for grants and renovations as possible, cheat all the contractors, and eventually file for bankruptcy, and stiff all the creditors.
Then do it again, and again, until the legal system won’t allow it anymore. Then figure out the next grift.
Turns out the next grift was become the legal system
“Drain the swamp” just got even funnier
That’s giving them too much credit, they certainly didn’t plan
The thing that professionals said would take years to complete took a couple of months instead…
Who could of saw this coming?
I mean I’m sure it’s just embezzlement.
14 million to the pool guy who half asses it did a couple million takes a couple million himself and kicks the rest back to Trump.