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'Dissatisfied' Trump tears up timeline on 'priority' project and forces work to start over
A Helipad, a Seal, and the Logic of Personal RuleVanity at the CenterThe White House is being reworked not around governance, but around one man’s aesthetic demands. Donald Trump ordered contractors to tear apart weeks of work on a South Lawn helipad because it did not look right to him, even pushing them to consider regrading the lawn itself so the pad would sit level with the horizon. That is not management. It is personal rule dressed up as facilities planning.Who Actually DecidesThe institutional power here is obvious: Trump. He set the deadline, demanded the redesign, and forced crews to…
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