No one is enthralled by infrastructure, least of all President Trump.
Last year, Trump and GOP lawmakers headed to Camp David for a so-called retreat full of policy presentations. Given Trump's typical attention span during meetings, the Republicans were "impressed" to see he was "scribbling furious notes" during an infrastructure briefing by then-economic adviser Gary Cohn, Politico writers Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman report in their new book The Hill to Die On. That is, until they saw what he was drafting.
Trump's "Sloppy Steve" iteration is among the most accurate of Trump's neverending insults, which were presumably also scratched on index cards now stashed in a Resolute desk drawer. The Washington Post obtained an early copy of The Hill to Die On, which goes on sale Tuesday. Read more of it here.
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