So … how was your Infrastructure Week? Donald Trump did do some real building this week—he created a ten-lane bridge between the nation’s anger and disgust. Unfortunately, it didn’t help create any jobs. In fact, at least one was lost.
Following Trump’s hug-a-Nazi workshop, the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities went out the door en masse, while delivering a fantastic take this job and fugue it letter. Though it’s not clear if they took their honorary chairman with them. The Manufacturing Council first started bleeding members, then unraveled so fast that Trump rushed to claim he had disbanded it. The Strategy & Policy Forum went out the door with it, before most of the CEOs on board had the satisfaction of writing a resignation letter.
But none of them could beat the record set by the special council created expressly support this celebrated and productive week.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that they would no longer move forward with plans to form an infrastructure advisory council.
That’s right. The Infrastructure Council was abandoned in the middle of Infrastructure Week before it was even built. It wasn’t just the bridge to nowhere, it was the half-doodled down blueprints for that bridge. To nowhere. It existed for negative time (someone call Einstein).
But Trump can take comfort, there is still one council of ruthless millionaire businessmen that’s hanging in there.
Not a single member of Trump's Evangelical Council has resigned. We have learned corporate America has a greater moral compass.
Not only have they not resigned, they’ve provided Trump some genuine support in this time of hardship.
Jerry Falwell Jr tweeted on Wednesday: “Finally, a leader in the White House. Jobs returning, North Korea backing down, bold truthful statement about Charlottesville tragedy. So proud of Donald Trump.”
Unfortunately for Infrastructure Week, the Evangelical Council can’t even build a road to hell—because clearly none of them have so much as good intentions.