While I understand the arguments against, this is an issue of compassion and grace and mercy.
This would shut up a lot of critics and go a long way towards locking up Michigan for the next election.
Get it done ahead of schedule and under budget. This is a one time infrastructure project and would be a perfect showcase for what Trump is really all about.
This is not the situation to be vindictive.
I see your thinking, but you need to think like a repetitive doubting thomas to come close to the minds of many defeated people groups in this country, or liberals.
You do some thing good for one city they will say “why them, why not mine?”
And for those in the city that gets helped, they likely will soon forget and just be pushing for the next help/hand out.
they need to change their thinking/perspective and that only happens by God and by facing their wrong thinking (usually real bad problem(s) and having to work their own way out of it)
Any thing else will just be a short lived “change” of heart.