President Donald Trump is working hard to make America dignified again, particularly in the realm of public events and geopolitical standing, and one of the ways he is doing so is by building, using private donations, a White House Ball Room that will stand where the East Wing, built in the FDR era, once stood. That wing is being demolished, and Democrats are having a bizarre meltdown about it.
Amongst those who most freaked out, in head-scratching fashion, was Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), known by many as “Spartacus,” a ridiculous nickname he once tried to give to himself to try to look cool, and has since turned into a way to mock his self-important, self-righteous attitude. Spartacus freaked out over the White House renovation when he appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday, October 22.
Such is what Sen. Booker did during that ridiculous appearance on MSNBC’s “All In” program, declaring that the efforts from President Donald Trump to construct a dignified and spacious ballroom was essentially an attack of vandalism that consists of “destroying the White House to rebuild it in his image.”
Booker’s freakout came in response to a question from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who asked about a completely different subject: the government shutdown. He said, “Let’s say the Democrats were successful here, how would you imagine that success becoming a legislative solution? Meaning like, what would the steps be such that something would get passed and it would be part of a deal to end the shutdown?”
Sen. Booker responded by rambling about the White House, an absurd response to an already ridiculous question. Beginning, Sen. Booker said, “Well for me they have to do something more than promises. I don’t trust this president. I don’t trust the word of Republicans.”
Continuing, Spartacus insisted that Trump’s ballroom construction is ridiculous, failing to note as he did so that the construction is funded by private donors rather than the American taxpayer. He said, “It is so ridiculous what we are watching right now from the Senate. We’re watching him come up with tens of billions of dollars to bail out Argentina. We are watching him spend hundreds, at least $100 million on destroying the White House to rebuild it in his image.”
Still not done, the angry Senator insisted that Republicans are finding money for what billionaires want, but not what the people need, ignoring that the shutdown has happened because Democrats want healthcare spending for illegal aliens. He snapped, “We are seeing people, Republicans, find money for everything imaginable when it comes to their priorities, their wealthy connected billionaire friends who are getting massive tax cuts that are costing us $1 trillion of deficit.”
"*" indicates required fields
Concluding, the angry senator then rambled yet more about healthcare, once again ignoring that Republicans have proposed solutions, such as a one year extension of the ACA subsidies, that Democrats have refused to accept. he said, “But yet they can’t come up for working Americans to help them have affordable health care. It is outrageous. The stories of pain and fear and worry. They want Democrats in the Senate to stand strong.”
Watch Booker’s meltdown here:
Featured image credit: Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cory_Booker_(48199490251).jpg