Cory Booker Rips Trump Over $5.1M Gold Horse Statues

US lawmaker criticizes $5.1 million gold restoration of Lincoln Memorial statues

While Americans worried about paying bills, Trump spent $5.1 million in taxpayer funds regilding statues with 23-karat gold, says Melanie Stansbury

Let Them Eat Gold

Taxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded. When you approach the freshly gilded twin statues near the Lincoln Memorial, there is no mistaking that they are gold. Very, very gold. Distractingly gold—or, more precisely, covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf costing $5.1 million. … Source

Cory Booker Rips Trump Over $5.1M Gold Horse Statues

Senator Cory Booker went after Trump this week over the gold horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial, calling the project an obscene waste of money and an insult to every American struggling to get by. The scaffolding came down days earlier, giving Washington its first look at what $5.1 million in taxpayer money bought. Booker’s post was short. He wrote that Trump is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to cover statues of horses in gold, and t…