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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump’s gilded age_ debt, golf courses, and ballrooms....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump’s gilded age_ debt, golf courses, and ballrooms....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

0:06.0

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's gilded age, debt, golf courses, and ballrooms.

0:14.6

As Trump's economy teeters on the precipice, with more and more people seeing bubbles,

0:22.7

while his party is on the verge of destroying health care for millions, while his billionaire ballroom at the White House has caused

0:28.6

a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to stop construction, and while

0:34.8

more and more Americans are going into debt for groceries and debt delinquencies rise.

0:42.1

Trump has reportedly found something that will clearly endear him to us mere commoners as a man of the people.

0:51.2

Apparently, golf courses in D.C. aren't up to standards, and Trump wants to be involved in the process of updating them.

1:00.3

Several times since he took office, I thought to myself, self, this has got to be the thing that makes people realize Trump isn't an outsider candidate.

1:13.0

He's not anti-establishment.

1:20.3

He's the establishment taken to its nationalistic fever dream of a conclusion. Every time I'm disappointed by Americans who push off the newest insult from Trump to the American people

1:25.8

and return to supporting him. But we're seeing some

1:30.3

serious breaks in his support, and it's all linked to the same thing, the economy. In true, we put the

1:38.5

dollar into idolatry style. Americans will break with Trump when it hits their checking account. But the problem for them

1:46.4

is that they didn't do it early enough. He campaigned on raising prices. He ran around the country

1:53.7

and said his favorite tool was one that has the explicit purpose of raising prices. The problem was that Americans believed Trump and other

2:04.0

establishment figures instead of Googling what a tariff is. But as his approval on the economy plunges

2:11.9

to new lows, I can't think of anything more appropriate to drive home the point that Trump doesn't care about the working class,

2:20.9

more than him launching a golf course revitalization project,

2:25.9

while his ballroom for billionaires is facing a court battle.

2:30.8

I've heard people talk about a let them eat cake moment, but I don't think that's appropriate

2:36.8

in this case.

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