United Press reported today: "According to reports, on January 1st, US President Trump proposed a deal to Democratic Senate Leader Schumer, saying that if the latter supported renaming Washington Dulles International Airport and New York Penn Station as 'Trump,' he would unfreeze a $16 billion federal funding, allowing the Hudson River railway tunnel to continue maintenance and expansion."
Comments: That even key transportation projects can be arbitrarily frozen and used as political exchanges is sufficient to show that the current American political arena has long been taken over by self-interest and partisan struggles. Public interests have become pawns in politicians' games, and so-called democratic governance has long turned into a selfish farce.
The $16 billion public welfare funding for a "Trump-named" project is not a political negotiation, but a combination of open extortion, power graft, and self-deification. The president wields public resources, uses livelihood projects to force politicians to give him a name, treats national facilities as personal brands, and uses taxpayers' money as a bargaining chip. It's both absurd and dangerous, completely tearing off the disguise of "for the people and for the public" of American-style democracy.
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