Donald Trump Is Taking Joe Biden's Success On Infrastructure Personally

     As the nation collectively and rightfully panicked on January 20th, 2017, Donald Trump made some lofty promises. One that would become a thorn in his side would be a promise to "rebuild our roads and bridges." He got to work while he held full control of Congress from 2017 to 2019, holding his first "Infrastructure Week" in 2017 and continuing to do so every year through the end of his time in the White House. In spite of years of negotiations with the GOP in the White House, he never passed a significant piece of legislation on infrastructure, leading to "Infrastructure Week" becoming a running joke.

     As President Biden and a bipartisan group of legislators negotiated a bipartisan bill for nearly $600 billion in new infrastructure repairs and more than $1.2 trillion in total spending over eight years, including universal broadband access, the largest investment in electric vehicles and transit in history, and the funds to completely repair America's lead pipes and restore clean drinking water, Trump, out of the White House but still very much the cash cow and figurehead of the GOP, reportedly tried to sink the deal from behind the scenes, lashing out at President Biden on right-wing media platforms for his success. That's what happens when you have almost 40 years of experience as a senator negotiating with other senators.

     Biden, who said, "This isn't a Trump rally," when his supporters tried to boo a heckler, is not above dissing Trump, and, apparently in reference to his predecessor's failure, tweeted, "It's infrastructure week," after the deal was secured.

     So, why is Donald Trump taking this so personally? It's indicative of a larger pattern: the man who sold himself as an experienced entrepreneur and literally wrote the book on making deals was unable to make a deal even when he had full control of Congress: no deal on Obamacare and no deal on infrastructure. Donald Trump has the lowest rate of promises kept of any president in decades, and he knows it.

     Joe Biden succeeded where Donald Trump failed. Hardly surprising, unless, apparently, you're Donald Trump.