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.”
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