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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Another Trump Bankruptcy
This is so surreal and wrong. Trump is running it into Bankruptcy, which is not surprising. But he is refusing to spend the repair money Congress approved until he gets his name back on it.
I find this so fascinating, and I shouldn't because it is incredibly unimportant, and designed to be a distraction. But still it is so incredibly wrong from so many different perspectives. Trump hired himself to run the Kennedy Center. He wouldn't have been my choice, but fine. But instead of identifying issues in this complex operation and developing strategies and plans for dealing with them, he erects barriers both metaphorical and physical to getting things done. Everyone wants the Kennedy Center to be both a great building, and a great center for the arts. It's support is bipartisan and nonpolitical. Anyone who is a good faith advocate for the Center, can count on virtually unlimited support, from Congress, from the arts community, from just about everyone really. And yet somehow, Donald Trump managed to screw it up. How is this possible? What could he have been thinking?==Hiram
I am a member of and a contributor to the White House Historical Association. Every year, in appreciation that they send me a very nice Christmas Ornament. What they don't do is erect a statue outside the building honoring me for my support. And you know what? I am okay with that.==Hiram
It kind of irritated me when Trump announced he wasn't keeping his salary. What that tends to suggest is that he will compensate himself in other ways. Those of us who work for employers generally don't expect to have monuments erected in our honor The paycheck is enough, in my case, often more than enough. Curiously, Trump seems to assume he should be memorialized for doing his job. Indeed as with the Kennedy Center, he demands to be memorialized before he actually does his job. This is strange to me.==Hiram
I find this so fascinating, and I shouldn't because it is incredibly unimportant, and designed to be a distraction. But still it is so incredibly wrong from so many different perspectives. Trump hired himself to run the Kennedy Center. He wouldn't have been my choice, but fine. But instead of identifying issues in this complex operation and developing strategies and plans for dealing with them, he erects barriers both metaphorical and physical to getting things done. Everyone wants the Kennedy Center to be both a great building, and a great center for the arts. It's support is bipartisan and nonpolitical. Anyone who is a good faith advocate for the Center, can count on virtually unlimited support, from Congress, from the arts community, from just about everyone really. And yet somehow, Donald Trump managed to screw it up. How is this possible? What could he have been thinking?==Hiram
ReplyDeleteI am a member of and a contributor to the White House Historical Association. Every year, in appreciation that they send me a very nice Christmas Ornament. What they don't do is erect a statue outside the building honoring me for my support. And you know what? I am okay with that.==Hiram
ReplyDeleteYes it is amazing how he could screw up something so straight forward.
ReplyDeleteIt kind of irritated me when Trump announced he wasn't keeping his salary. What that tends to suggest is that he will compensate himself in other ways. Those of us who work for employers generally don't expect to have monuments erected in our honor The paycheck is enough, in my case, often more than enough. Curiously, Trump seems to assume he should be memorialized for doing his job. Indeed as with the Kennedy Center, he demands to be memorialized before he actually does his job. This is strange to me.==Hiram
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