President Donald Trump led reporters on a tour of the White House construction site on Tuesday, unveiling the new granite helipad on the South Lawn and holding forth at length on the various grades of stone, sight lines and square footage as he called the hard-hatted workmen “real artists.”
Five months into a war with Iran that appears no closer to ending and days after asking the Supreme Court to let him resume work on a ballroom a federal appeals court ordered stopped, the president summoned the White House press pool for the impromptu media availability to boast about the changes he has made to the Southern entrance to the building on Wednesday, during the time his public schedule had reserved for a “policy meeting.”
