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With the East Wing in the dumpster, public tours of the White House are indefinitely suspended. In Trump’s second term, his contempt for regular people has becomes exponentially more brazen, starting with that potent image of the billionaire tech uber-race standing shoulder to shoulder behind him on the dais in the Capitol rotunda, while the adoring MAGA proletariat was decanted out of the rain into the Capital One Arena. Does anyone think the first guests in the new dining palace will be the overflow dudes in their Trump 2028 caps? No president has been so disengaged from a government shutdown and its harrowing implication for the 42 million Americans who will be deprived of food stamps this Saturday. ——Tina Brown
