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Authoritarians and their bunkers have a long and storied history. Probably the most well-known was Adolf Hitler, who spent his ignominious final hours holed up in a bunker in Berlin. And in recent weeks, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has been hiding out from a rumored incipient coup in a palatial bunker of his own. Now, wonders i Paper contributor Sarah Baxter, has President Donald Trump \u201centered the bunker phase of his presidency?\u201d Maybe or maybe not, but two things are certain: he is building a bunker, and he \u201cknows\u201d his presidency is failing.<\/p>\n

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According to Baxter, evidence of Trump\u2019s inclination to hunker in his bunker came earlier this week, when he expressed hesitancy at leaving the White House to attend his son\u2019s wedding, saying, \u201cUhhhh. He\u2019d like me to go. I\u2019m gonna try and make it. But it\u2019s going to be just a small, little private affair\u2026 I said, \u2018This is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

As others have pointed out, his desire to remain on and fortify the White House campus has grown over the course of his second term, particularly since the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in April. And while he\u2019d already been pushing for his ballroom for a year at that point, his brush with death spurred him to make it a key priority and crank up the security costs.<\/p>\n

Writes Baxter, \u201cFor an estimated cost of $1 billion, a bill taxpayers would foot, the ballroom will extend six floors underground, with its own command and communications center, military hospital, and a hardened roof of \u2018impenetrable steel\u2019 with a base \u2018for unlimited numbers of drones,\u2019 Trump said excitedly on a tour of the site. There can be no more powerful symbol of a president under siege.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s project has hit a roadblock as Congress has balked at his billion-dollar request, with Democrats using parliamentary procedure to kill the funding and Republicans panicking in the face of growing midterm headwinds. The president\u2019s tendency to attack those in his own party by endorsing primary challengers has only entrenched resistance, as \u201cthe finely-balanced Senate and House now harbor several seriously disaffected Republican lawmakers who have suddenly found a spine now they have been deselected and have nothing left to lose. They are bent on scuttling Trump\u2019s plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s more, writes Baxter, \u201cIndulging the President \u2014 whose approval rating stands at just 35 percent, according to the latest Reuters\/Ipsos poll \u2014 risks alienating the substantial slice of voters outside the Trump bunker who are furious about inflation, fuel prices and the Iran war.\u201d But, \u201cTrump usually gets what Trump wants, so I wouldn\u2019t set too much store by these stirrings of rebellion. He is more disinhibited than ever and less inclined to care what anybody thinks.\u201d And with the ballroom construction already underway with a projected completion date of late 2028 \u2014 right before Trump is supposed to leave office \u2014 some have suggested that he might follow Putin\u2019s example and attempt to stay put. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not such a far-fetched assertion. Following his loss in 2020, Trump reportedly told an aide, \u201cI\u2019m just not going to leave,\u201d telling another, \u201cWe\u2019re never leaving \u2014 how can you leave when you won an election?\u201d And while on the campaign trail in 2024, he himself said, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have left.\u201d<\/p>\n

So with that in mind, \u201cWhat are the odds that, come January 2029, Trump will be holed up in his bunker, refusing to leave the White House?\u201d Baxter wonders. \u201cIf I were a gambler, I\u2019d place a bet in the prediction markets on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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