Letter to the Editor: Would-be-king

Our covetous would-be-king desires to live in a 16th-century palace, which explains why his unnecessary dance hall/ballroom so resembles the St. Petersburg Palace’s Throne Room.

His adoration of gaudy kitsch, of ‘gold’ bric-a-brac, ‘gold’-sprayed frames, ostentatious ormolu, have made the Oval Office and Reception room pretentious and tastelessly ornate. Only he would pave over the Rose Garden, thinking a cement lot with tables & “gold” umbrellas is an improvement. Unfortunately, the would-be-king is delusional and oblivious to how his lack of taste is seen by a world of cultured people.

We cannot forget the cost of demolishing the classic East Wing and its venerable trees. Is that included in the rapidly-increasingly $300 million price tag of the grandiose, baroque, ostentatious palace dance-hall -built for the occasional wealthy donors’ dinner? Its 90000 sq ft. is more than 5 times larger than the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago. We-The-People definitely do not want or need it, and we won’t be invited there! We also know the would-be-king is a pathological liar, so don’t believe him when he tells us that we taxpayers won’t eventually foot-the-bill for this.

The would-be-king rails about waste, fraud and abuse, yet the would-be-king promises $40 billion to bail-out Argentina. And he extends tax breaks to America’s ultra-wealthy totaling $4 trillion. Neither should we forget that we taxpayers are also forking over nearly $1 billion to refurbish his Flying Bordello plane from Qatar.

Have we come to this? “Il Duce ha sempre ragione:” “The Leader is always right.” (Mussolini, fascist)

Susie Petra

Ames