Trump's own county votes 6-0 against the data centers he calls the cure for 'backwards and poor.'

…(cont) Then I got in the car — the one with the belt that squeals on cold mornings — and I sat there a minute with the glovebox open, because I keep clippings in there too, the ones that don't fit in my jacket, and I found this one: a Gallup poll, reported September 4th, that found Americans would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than next to a data center. Not by a little. By more than twenty points. I don't know what you do with a number like that except write it down twice, which I did.

So here's a question for you, and I think you can answer it from what's already on the page: if the boom is rescuing towns, why would a Gallup poll find people would rather take the reactor?

I kept going. That's their sentence. The thing that thinks against the building that houses it, and the building is losing.

Then there's the other column, the New York Post, October 29th, 'build, baby, build,' it says, measuring us against the United Kingdom, like the UK is the warning and we still have time. I don't know the UK well enough to argue with that part. I just know what's in my own glovebox.

And the president — I had this on a torn corner, August 31st, a social media post — warned towns that refuse will end up worse off. He used two specific words for it. I'm not going to use them yet. I wrote them down separate, on their own line, for later.

Here's where I get stuck, and maybe you won't — Palm Beach County is the president's own county. Mar-a-Lago sits in it. Six commissioners, zero dissents, a one-year moratorium on anything over fifty megawatts, passed September 25th. Not a poll this time. A vote. On the record. By his own neighbors.

Oh — before you go — one more thing, because I almost forgot I had it, right here, under the Fox piece, in my own handwriting even: if the towns that take the deal are the ones getting rescued, what do you call the county that voted no and happens to be his?

I don't have a word for it. I only have the two he gave me: backwards and poor.