Up In Smoke

Remember the Trump fireworks show back in August?  It was... a fireworks show.  We've all seen them and then we move on with our lives, because after all it's just smoke when the explosions are over.  Kind of like Trump - just noxious smoke after some loud noise.  But, Trump loves this kind of stuff.  In fact, he loves spending other people's money on this stuff instead of on the actual hard work of a political campaign.  

During the month of August, the Trump campaign spent nearly half-a-million dollars on fireworks, almost certainly for the display that was put on over the south lawn of the White House during the Republican convention. That display was indisputably ostentatious—a seemingly never ending stream of lights that culminated in the words “Trump” and “2020” bedazzling the sky above the Washington Monument. But the price tag—$477,000—made the company behind the show, Grucci Inc., the campaign’s ninth largest vendor of the entire month. The campaign paid more to the Long Island fireworks company in August than it spent on legal bills for its top firm, Jones Day, or its top pollster, Fabrizio Lee & Associates. It was well more than half of the $762,826.08 the campaign spent on its entire payroll.

Here is a look at one possible future for the Trump reelection campaign.