The Pool and the Presidency: Vanity Projects, Neglected Crises, and a Nation Left Waiting
While American families pay over $4 a gallon for gas, millions struggle without health insurance, and a war in Iran enters its third month without a coherent exit strategy, the President of the United States interrupted a White House briefing on prescription drug prices to announce he had hired his hotel’s pool contractor to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American flag blue.” This is not a metaphor. This is the record.