Trump already knows nobody will 'honor him when he's gone': ex-staffer

According to one of President Donald Trump’s former advisers, the president suspects that Americans will not respect him once he is removed from power — and that is why he is obsessed with building monuments to himself now.

“He loves to build, that's his background,” Sarah Matthews, former Trump White House deputy press secretary, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday. “So I think he's looking at these little pet projects, and this is what excites him. This is what gets him jazzed up.”

She added, “He's probably bored talking about Iran. He doesn't want to talk about inflation and all of these things. We've seen him say, when it comes to affordability, that this is a hoax created by the Democrats — even though that's what the American people are actually focused on: the affordability crisis that he has only exacerbated with his choice to launch this attack on Iran and raise gas prices, and with his choice to put these asinine tariffs in place. So I think this is what he wants to be focused on, but it couldn't be more tone deaf.”

Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) elaborated on Matthews’ point, comparing Trump’s behavior to the “clown show” satirized on the famous animated sitcom The Boondocks.

“The Iran war is still going on,” Bowman said. “Lebanon is being bombed consistently. These ceasefires are not lasting. There's ethnic cleansing happening there. People can't afford to live. You're protecting child sex trafficking rapists, according to the majority of the American people. This whole presidency has been a disaster, and we have to live with it every day.”

Bowman continued, “My prayer and hope is that in November, we pivot. But I worry, because it's not about serving the working class of the American people — it's about power. And that's not just Trump. His administration has been a problem, as have both parties, for a very long time.”

Matthews then pivoted back to the subject of Trump’s fixation on building monuments to himself.

“I think it's very striking that if you thought people wouldn't build monuments to you after you leave office, you wouldn't feel the need to do this,” Matthews said. “But Sen. Jon Ossoff [D-GA] brought up this point recently and made the case that Trump is doing this right now because he knows that when he's gone, people won't honor him — people won't want to. So I think Trump knows that, and feels it looking at his polling numbers, and he wants to build this legacy. That's also part of the reason why he's so focused on these little pet projects of his.”

Last month Windsor Mann, journalist from The Daily Beast, analyzed Trump’s mentality to explain his obsession with creating monuments to himself. In addition to worrying about his legacy, he argued that it is a way for Trump to assert ownership over the American people.

“Donald Trump’s two favorite things are himself and money,” Mann wrote. “Now he has decided to combine the two. Indeed, for the first time in history, the sitting president is adding his signature to our paper currency. Trump’s name will be on your money, which is his way of saying that he owns you.”

He summed his point up by saying, “After all, what if we built a statue of someone who turned out to be in the Epstein files or who, after losing an election, tried to overthrow our democracy? It would be costly and tedious to dismantle a statue of such a person after these revelations surfaced. Perhaps Trump realizes this, which is why he’s building not one monument to himself but scores of them.”

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