Everything else aside, if the CEO of a major company (but still a tiny fraction of the size of the US government) was visibly spending half his time fretting about refurbishing the fountain in front of corporate headquarters, the stock would tank and the board would fire them.
@mattblaze My first hour-long executive meeting at a company that would later be worth about $4B was entirely focused on the CEO complaining that one of the engineers anodized a part pink, and how that was obviously done as an insult to him.
I prefer your world where Trump is an outlier, but it has not been my experience.