Americans are sending Donald Trump an urgent message: They’re hurting and they blame his policies.
But a president who built a powerful political movement partly on channeling heartland grievances over the faded American dream now seems deaf to the country’s economic pain.
He has other priorities — like a $29 billion and counting war that many citizens blame for their financial troubles.
The president is fixated on extravagant legacy projects like a huge White House ballroom and making a landmark that reflects the greatness of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington look like the sky-blue pools at his golf resorts.
Meanwhile, Trump is awaiting delivery of a luxury new Air Force One — gifted by Qatar but adapted with taxpayer cash. And survey work has just started on a towering triumphal arch that would loom over the capital after he’s left office.
