Louisiana Voice

If there has eve, EVER, been a president more tone-deaf to the plight of working Americans than one Donald J. Trump, I’m at a loss to name him.

He makes Marie Antoinette look like Mother Teresa; Herbert Hoover appear as Abe Lincoln and George W. Bush endowed with the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson.

Okay, that last one was a bit of a stretch, but you get the picture. Donald Trump is completely, totally and unequivocally out of touch with Americans, most especially his own constituency.

After all, of all Americans, the great working class, which comprises the bulk of his maniacal support base, are the very ones suffering the greatest under the strain of increased prices across the board of consumer goods,

The crushing inflationary economy is hurting virtually everyone but the wealthiest, of course. Yet, with approximately 30-35 percent of Americans, his support has been unflagging—and that’s the real mystery.

As Americans struggle to put food on the table and fuel in their vehicles and to pay those tariffs Trump insists foreign countries are paying, he is blowing through taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on shore leave. Ballrooms, arches, reflecting pools, jet plane renovations, golf course upgrades, wars—it seems to make no difference to him. Spend, spend, spend. After all, it’s not coming out of his pocket.

Not only that, he continues to enrich himself off the office he holds to the tune of $2.4 billion so far this term—a clear violation of the Emoluments Clause.

And now, without so much as a second thought, he has decided, apparently on impulse, that he needs an entirely new fleet of Cadillac Escalades. Two hundred fifty of them.

Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle | US news | The Guardian

Want to know how he justified the purchase of 250 new Escalades for his motorcades? Here’s what he said: “We look sharp in those Escalades. Our guys are very spoiled. They’re very spoiled. They like the Escalade. So do I.”

That’s it. “We look sharp” in them.

Does that sound like someone who is concerned about the welfare of Americans?

The Guardian called it “fiddling with car specifications while Rome burns.”

J.D. Vance, of course, is no better. He ordered the Secret Service to have a helicopter take his elementary school-aged son to golf practice. Only inclement weather prevented that from happening.

Kash Patel has used $60 million military jets to travel to concerts to see his girlfriend perform.

So, MAGHATS, take comfort in knowing that Trump is spending more than $300,000 per unit to purchase and customize 250 Cadillac Escalades (that’s a total outlay of $75 million, folks) for his motorcades because he “looks good” in them.

Rest easy that Vance uses military helicopters to take his kid to golf practice while the children of typical MAGHATS are shuttled around by moms in minivans to soccer practice but Patel can commandeer a $60 million plane to hop around the country to watch his girlfriend perform while the typical MAGHAT has to be content tossing dollar bills on stage while watching his imaginary girlfriend swing around a brass pole.

And don’t worry about “affordability.” It’s just a term invented by the Dumocrats. The American economy is going gangbusters. And we’ve obliterated Iran’s capacity to fight. And Trump won the election in 2020.

Because he says so, that’s why. Anything else is fake news.