It looks like the stable genius in the whitehouse is sabotaging his own infrastructure plans
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/trump-bulldozes-his-own-infrastructure-planQuote
Trump has frequently described himself as a builder, regaling audiences with stories from his real-estate days, and donning hard hats with aplomb. Last summer he looked in his element unfurling a long paper flowchart showing all the permissions purportedly required to build a highway. He also, perhaps unsurprisingly, doesn’t seem to understand much about his own infrastructure plan.
The Washington Post reports that at Camp David on Friday, the president “expressed misgivings about his administration’s infrastructure plan . . . telling Republican leaders that building projects through public-private partnerships is unlikely to work—and that it may be better for the government to pursue a different path.” Unfortunately, it seems no one informed Trump’s spokespeople of his change of heart:
On Saturday morning, Gary Cohn, the president’s chief economic adviser, delivered a detailed proposal on infrastructure and public-private partnerships that seemed to contradict the president. He said the administration hoped $200 billion in new federal government spending would trigger almost $1 trillion in private spending and local and state spending, according to people familiar with his comments. Cohn seemed to present the plan as the administration’s approach, although the president had suggested such an approach might not work.
According to the Post, Trump’s repeated grumbling about the workability of public-private partnerships has “infuriated and surprised some administration aides who have worked on the plans for months,” especially as they were aiming to release their goals later this month.