There’s a word for Trump’s top-down, cookie-cutter constriction of American history and his far-reaching purge of any perceived deviations from its supposed “truth”: un-American.
Last week, Donald Trump’s rolling
assault on the physical landscape of the capital set its sights on yet another
historical landmark. The fountain in the World War II memorial, Trump
declared, looked “in pretty bad shape on the bottom,” in need of a makeover
“duplicating” that for the nearby Reflecting Pool, though “maybe with a
Fact-checking Trump on National Mall's Reflecting Pool renovations
How Trump's Washington spruce-up has boosted Malcolm X Park | The National
Trump’s Attempt To Fix ‘Filthy’ D.C. Landmark Might Be A Waste Of $13 Million: Report
Trump Is Spending Millions To Paint Reflecting Pool Blue: NYT
Workers with boots dyed an “American Flag Blue” have painted over about two-thirds of the iconic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…
With his changes to the Reflecting Pool and other sites, the president is asking Washingtonians to trust his taste.
The administration is offloading gems of US architecture while redesigning the city to match the president’s values
From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and…
"Psychologically and culturally, it reads to me as nostalgia weaponized into branding," noted one architect.
President Donald Trump provided a glimpse into his vision for an iconic landmark — and brought former President Barack Obama into…
