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'Like we’re under occupation': Tourists aghast at Trump’s ugliest obsession
Trump’s Capital Project Is Not Renovation. It Is Occupation.A City Turned Into a Stage SetThe source’s basic fact pattern is simple: Washington, D.C., is being chopped up by Trump-branded construction, and visitors are being shut out of public space while the administration sells it as beautification. That is the surface. The political reality is uglier. The city is being treated less as a capital than as a backdrop for one man’s vanity, with access, preservation, and public use all subordinated to his taste and calendar.The complaint from tourists and preservationists matters because it…
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