Donald Trump’s “stable genius” act ratcheted things up a notch Monday when his White House released a $4.4 trillion budget that adds $7 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years and would pay for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure program by – among other things – selling the 16,000 miles of transmission lines that carry TVA’s electric power to the EPBs of its seven-state region.
The question is whether Trump’s act will ever wear itself out with we lemmings known as Americans.
Aside from the fact that selling TVA or anything TVA owns that produces or carries power is a daft idea, Trump must not have known that it was also a dumb idea some years back when President Barack Obama entertained it.
Certainly if Trump had recalled that Obama had proffered such a misguided suggestion, our current president – the one who claims a “great memory” – wouldn’t have touched it.
There are, of course, some things TVA could and should sell – like the two luxury jets and a specialized Mercedes Benz helicopter, formerly used by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The aircraft – purchased under Bill Johnson’s five-year tenure as TVA president and CEO, are worth an estimated $40 million dollars.