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Miles Archer

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Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:51 PM Monday

79 year old rapist felon building $400M ballroom at 2x original $200M estimate objects to cost of NY NJ Gateway project

Trump has embarked on a wild Presidents’ Day rant to blast America’s most urgent infrastructure project as as a “boondoggle” and swat down claims about renaming yet another facility after him.

In a lengthy social media tirade on Monday, Trump warned that the Gateway project — the long-planned rail expansion between New York and New Jersey — would spiral beyond its current $16 billion price tag and said that “under no circumstances” would his administration pay for any cost overruns.

Days after his administration agreed to a judge’s orders to release funding for the project, Trump took to Truth Social to describe it as a waste.

“I am opposed to the future boondoggle known as ‘Gateway,’ in New York/New Jersey, because it will cost many BILLIONS OF DOLLARS more than projected or anticipated, much like Gavin Newscum’s “Railroad” to nowhere, which is many times over budget, with no end in sight, and could financially obliterate what is left, after Newscum, of the California Economy," he wrote. “It is a disaster!” he insisted.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-loses-it-over-boondoggle-in-unhinged-holiday-tirade/

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