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A long time ago (Tuesday) in a galaxy far, far away (but actually Washington), President donald trump unveiled a new star wars-Themed nickname for white House The budget chief has been given the power to punish Democratic lawmakers by cutting projects and programs he deems priorities.
Speaking at a luncheon in the recently landscaped White House Rose Garden republican According to senators, Trump was about 35 minutes into his 42-minute speech, offering a flurry of complaints about the three-week-old government shutdown — and blaming Democrats for the “pain” caused by his “reckless and completely unnecessary matter” — when he noticed a man in the crowd sitting in front of him.
“I will say this – that we have darth vaderYou know Darth Vader, right?” Trump asked rhetorically. “Darth Vader is a guy who, I think, fits right in – is he Darth? stand up please.”
The man he was talking about was not the space villain played by David Prowse and famously voiced by James Earl Jones in director George Lucas’s iconic trilogy, but was actually Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Vought, a longtime Republican activist who was a key contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint for centralizing power in the White House and marginalizing Democrats, is using the ongoing lapse in government funding to expand programs benefiting states that have elected Democratic governors or Senators elected — or voted against — Trump in last year’s election.
Trump then claimed that “they” – meaning the Democrats – gave Vought the nickname after the Sith Lord alter ego of Jedi Anakin Skywalker, and said that he himself calls Vought “a good guy”. In fact, it was the President who coined the science fiction-sounding nickname for his budget chief.
“He’s cutting the Democrats’ priorities and they’ll never get them back,” Trump said. “They did that, and they really allowed us to do that.”
The president said Watts was “really doing a great job” as major Democratic projects like the $20 billion Gateway Tunnel project in New York were being cut.
He said, “They’re losing all the things they wanted, but many of the things they wanted are things we don’t want, things that are very bad for our country, and we’re eliminating those things.”
Trump compared to OMB director star wars It was one of several bizarre digressions Wilen, a libertarian former ophthalmologist who frequently opposes the president’s efforts to expand executive authority and employ the military domestically and abroad, made during his 40-plus minute speech in front of every Republican senator except Rand Paul of Kentucky.
“We’re just missing one person. You’ll never guess who it is,” he said, adding that the missing senator – whom he did not name – “automatically votes ‘no’ on everything” and acknowledged that he would have “reluctantly” allowed Paul to attend if he had asked.
In another oddity, he noted that the Rose Garden is located on the opposite side of the wall shared with the White House press briefing room – which was previously a swimming pool built during the Franklin Roosevelt administration – and suggested that the Secret Service had prevented then-First Lady Jackie Kennedy from entering when her husband, then-President John F. Kennedy, was going inside with other women.
“On the other side of the wall, there was that swimming pool where Jackie used to say, ‘I hear women inside. Women inside.’ Quite famous. I am not saying anything. It was part of a movie and the Secret Service said, ‘No, ma’am… there’s no woman inside,'” Trump said.
At another point, he complained that ongoing electoral trends against the incumbent president’s party in midterm congressional elections defy explanation, and said that even Senate Majority Leader John Thune has not been able to explain why the president’s party almost always loses control of one or both chambers two years after the last presidential election.
“We didn’t have as much success as nobody else, but for some reason, you lose in the midterms. I don’t know why. I mean, the odds are pretty extreme, like 92% or something. It doesn’t make sense. If you have a great presidency, it only means you win in the midterms. So there should be no reason for that,” he said.
Trump, who has demanded that GOP-controlled legislatures redraw House districts to prevent Democrats from gaining control of the House next year, warned that his party “has to win the midterms” or “all the things we’ve done” since he returned to the White House will be “taken away by radical left-wing lunatics.”
The president’s comments came a day after construction crews began demolishing the East Wing facade in preparation for the construction of the massive $250 billion ballroom on the White House grounds that he coined as his signature.
Trump said that his lunch guests “could probably hear the beautiful sound of construction behind them” and said it was “music.” [his] Ear.”
The former real estate developer said that construction noise generally “reminds me of money” but claimed that this particular project “reminds me of the lack of money” because he is reportedly paying for the ballroom himself – with the assistance of several corporate and Republican donors.
“It will be one of the most beautiful ballrooms in the world,” he said.