At a ceremony in front of the iconic cascading fountain at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, DC, earlier this month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top US officials touted President Donald Trump’s efforts to make the city “safe and beautiful.”

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President Trump's efforts to build monuments to himself in Washington, D.C., can't hide the destruction he's doing to the democracy around the world.