Analysis: Trump’s gilded indifference ignores America’s growing economic pain | CNN Politics

Americans are sending Donald Trump an urgent message: They’re hurting and they blame his policies. But a president who built a powerful political movement partly on channeling heartland grievances over the faded American dream now seems deaf to the country’s economic pain. He has other priorities — like a $29 billion and counting war that many citizens blame for their financial troubles. The president is fixated on extravagant legacy projects like a huge White House ballroom and making a landmark that reflects the greatness of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington look like the sky-blue pools at his golf resorts. Meanwhile, Trump is awaiting delivery of a luxury new Air Force One — gifted by Qatar but adapted with taxpayer cash. And survey work has just started on a towering triumphal arch that would loom over the capital after he’s left office. And rather than showing sympathy over tough times for many citizens, Trump spent Monday night posting a long screed of bizarre, false and insulting material on social media. This excess feels like a callous optical error when millions of Americans are having a tough time affording their monthly grocery bills, paying for housing an