AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Maggie Haberman says 70% of Trump's attention goes to monuments, renovations and legacy
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects. - "He is spending a huge amount of energy, mental and otherwise, on these renovation projects, beautification projects around Washington, and then monuments to self," Haberman told me for Axios' "Behind the Curtain" video series . "[T]here is no precedent in U.S. history of a sitting president devising such endeavors in their own name." Why it matters: That mental map by Haberman — co-author with Jonathan Swan of "Regime Change ," which has sold 600,000 copies and on Wednesday hit seven weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list — is a…
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects. - "He is spending a huge amount of energy, mental and otherwise, on these renovation projects, beautification projects around Washington, and then monuments to self," Haberman told me for Axios' "Behind the Curtain" video series . "[T]here is no precedent in U.S. history of a sitting president devising such endeavors in their own name." Why it matters: That mental map by Haberman — co-author with Jonathan Swan of "Regime Change ," which has sold 600,000 copies and on Wednesday hit seven weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list — is a…Open