One thing is for sure: we can always count on Trump to cut corners illegally and waste millions of American tax dollars.

Instead of going out of his way to fix issues we actually give a damn about, he'd rather cut corners and go out of his way to hand his friends at Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a multi-million dollar no-bid contract to desecrate and deface the Lincoln Memorial pool.

"Separate but equal."

That's how people defended decades of preventing Black children from excelling at – or even accessing – the quality education white kids got. And because that education was the surest way to get a leg up in the world, "separate but equal" became the go-to excuse for all structural racism.

$200 million.

No more than $300 million.

$400 million.

Not one penny.

$1 billion.

Each of these things we've been told is the total cost to the taxpayer for Donald Trump's illegal East Wing ballroom.

So which is it?