Making matters worse, and adding months of delays on top of rising costs and more years of delays, is the fact that the developers have never actually marshalled anything approaching a full scale effort: crew, machinery, work schedule or anything at all resembling the sort of involvement that realistic development of the project demands.

A representative recently tried to dismiss all this with infantile excuses, rather than admitting that the challenges of funding, engineering, planning and construction on this scale are simply beyond Simdag’s expertise. Organization? I don’t see any evidence of it whatsoever. So where’s the Donald, and where has he been for the past year?