Trump’s presidency is symbolically collapsing. Here’s the budgetary breakdown of a meltdown presidency’s failed projects as the walls close in.

Start with the ballroom. Trump demolished the entire East Wing of the White House to build a $400 million private event space, and a federal judge blocked the above-ground construction, ruling Trump could not build it without a vote from Congress. The East Wing is already gone. The ballroom is a hole in the ground. The appeals hearing is June 5th.

In December, a Trump-appointed board voted to rename the Kennedy Center after him, and within a day workers had carved “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” into the marble.

Last Friday, Judge Christopher Cooper ordered it removed within 14 days: “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can remove it. “

Then the slush fund. Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his own tax returns, then had his own Justice Department settle it by creating a $1. 776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay it.

A federal judge barred the DOJ from transferring a single dollar into it

A separate judge has now ordered Trump and his sons to respond to fraud allegations from nearly three dozen former federal judges.

Facing a revolt from his own Senate Republicans, Trump paused the slush fund himself.

Majority Leader Thune openly defied Trump’s demand to slip ballroom money into the immigration bill. The courts are blocking him. His own party is refusing him.

And his base is leaving: his approval has sunk to 34 percent, with just 22 percent approving of his handling of the cost of living. A record 37 percent of Republicans now disapprove of his economy.

He builds them when he can feel it slipping

While gas sits at $4. 55 a gallon and the Iran war burns past $60 billion with no authorization, the President of the United States spent the spring trying to build a $400 million ballroom, carve his name above John F.

Kennedy’s, and route $1. 776 billion in public money to the people who stormed the Capitol for him.

Every one of those projects is now frozen by a court, paused by his party, or both.

A man does not build monuments to himself when he is winning

He builds them when he can feel it slipping. And the marble is already coming back down off the wall.