Has Donald Trump entered the bunker phase of his presidency? He didn’t seem keen to leave the White House when asked a perfectly natural question about whether he would attend the wedding of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, to Bettina Anderson in The Bahamas this weekend.
“Uhhhh. He’d like me to go,” Trump hesitated. “I’m gonna try and make it. But it’s going to be just a small, little private affair. […] I said, “This is not good timing for me. I have a thing called ‘Iran‘ and other things.’ ”
Whether he shows up or not, the temptation to hunker in his bunker isn’t entirely metaphorical for Trump. A secure, underground lair at the White House could soon be all too real, not just in his mind. The ballroom that he has been obsessing about non-stop is going to be heavily fortified.
For an estimated cost of $1bn (£750m), a bill taxpayers would foot, the ballroom will extend six floors underground, with its own command and communications centre, military hospital, and a hardened roof of “impenetrable steel” with a base “for unlimited numbers of drones”, Trump said excitedly on a tour of the site.
There can be no more powerful symbol of a president under siege. As time goes by, Trump could fully morph into his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who has been reportedly hiding out from growing criticism in his own palatial bunker.
Nothing encapsulates this Trump presidency more than his ever-more grandiose building projects (and swelling personal coffers). The East Wing of the White House has been torn down and the Arc de Trump – the 250ft monstrosity set to overpower the Lincoln Memorial – has just been approved by Trump’s own appointed US Commission of Fine Arts.
However these projects aren’t exactly going to plan. In a small sacrifice to public opinion, the triumphal arch has lost four intended lions at the base of the monument, but will retain the giant golden-winged statue at the top.
However, the $1bn for the ballroom bunker has run into opposition in Congress. This has been fueled by Republican panic about facing the midterm elections with little to show for Trump’s second term apart from tacky monuments to his “greatness” and gnawing questions about his age and health.
Republican lawmakers are on the horns of a dilemma. Anyone who opposes Trump risks unleashing the wrath of his Maga base. This happened on Tuesday to Thomas Massie, a Republican Representative for Kentucky, who lost to a Trump-backed primary opponent after harping on too much about the Epstein scandal, and is therefore ineligible to run for re-election.
On the other hand, the finely-balanced Senate and House now harbour several seriously disaffected Republican lawmakers who have suddenly found a spine now they have been deselected and have nothing left to lose. They are bent on scuttling Trump’s plans.
Moreover, indulging the President – whose approval rating stands at just 35 per cent, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll – risks alienating the substantial slice of voters outside the Trump bunker who are furious about inflation, fuel prices and the Iran war.
As the Republican election guru, Karl Rove, warned this week in The Wall Street Journal, “The GOP’s chances will get worse if President Trump’s approval numbers keep declining […] The President comes across more as a heckler at a UFC match than as a reassuring wartime commander-in-chief.”
Members of Congress, who ran for their lives from a violent mob on January 6, 2021, are particularly enraged by the Department of Justice’s plan to set up a $1,776bn (£1,323bn) slush fund (honouring 1776, the year of American independence) to pay alleged victims of the “weaponisation of justice” under former president Joe Biden.
The idea that rioters could be compensated for their actions that day was summed up by one social media user as: “Was your flagpole damaged from beating a police officer on January 6?”
Trump usually gets what Trump wants, so I wouldn’t set too much store by these stirrings of rebellion. He is more disinhibited than ever and less inclined to care what anybody thinks. However, the more boundaries he pushes, the more concern there is about how far he will go to hang on to power. Compensating his barmy army of election deniers for breaking the law over the 2020 presidential election surely invites them to repeat the exercise at the next one.
Trump’s hesitation over attending his son’s wedding confirms my view that he doesn’t rate Don Jr as a potential successor. He is thought to be cooling on Vice President JD Vance and doesn’t fully trust former rival “Little” Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State.
What are the odds that, come January 2029, Trump will be holed up in his bunker, refusing to leave the White House? If I were a gambler, I’d place a bet in the prediction markets on this.
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