The president’s own advisers say he’s drifting into a fantasy land of arches, ballrooms, and helipads.

Donald Trump’s closest aides say that the fact he’s obsessing over pet projects while his approval ratings plummet shows he’s in total denial about the bonfire he’s made of his second presidency.

Trump, 80, dropped to 32 percent approval in a Quinnipiac survey released last week. That’s the lowest figure of his political career—lower, even, than his numbers in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol Building. Sixty-eight percent of voters now say he’s not paying enough attention to the issues weighing on most households.

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    The president even admitted in a Wednesday interview that Republicans are very likely facing a bloodbath come November’s midterms—even if his response to that prospect, and the issue Democratic control of either chamber could create for his agenda, has amounted to little more than a shrug.

    “They’re angry at Republicans,” he told Punchbowl News. “They’re not angry at me.”