Garbled Trump tunnel threat signals scramble to save face after court smackdown

Just days after retreating from his threat to withhold $16 billion in federal funding for a critical tunnel project, President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to denounce the project as a “disaster,” while simultaneously outlining an apparent offramp that could help him save face.

The “Gateway Project,” a planned tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey that local leaders say is desperately needed, had been controversially halted after Trump scrapped federal funding last year,...