President Donald Trump on Tuesday decided to take reporters on a tour of the construction of his highly unpopular ballroom — harping on his public obsession with a project that’s giving his party political fits.
Hours later, he endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his primary runoff with GOP Sen. John Cornyn next week, despite the institutional GOP’s major concerns about Paxton’s electability.
Just 24 hours earlier, Trump pulled his $10 billion lawsuit against the government he controls in favor of having it pay his allies $1.8 billion.
And all of that comes shortly after Trump said he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation” when trying to resolve the Iran war.
Given the volume of Trump’s politically unhelpful gambits these days, it’s almost like he is trying to create political problems for his party ahead of an increasingly fraught 2026 midterm election.
