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Why Trump’s 250 Grand Prix Is a Really Bad Idea

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President Donald Trump is a whiz at creating problems out of things that you never, ever worried about before. The latest concerns the Freedom 250 Grand Prix (“Let Freedom Rev!”), an Indy 500 race set for August 22 and 23 around the National Mall. The Grand Prix threatens damage to what may be the densest concentration of historic, scientific, and fine arts treasures anywhere in the United States, from the 76-by-30-foot Calder mobile dangling from the ceiling of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights at the National Archives to the Wright Brothers plane and Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis hanging in the National Air and Space Museum. These objects, and many more, reside in buildings situated along the Grand Prix route, and the vibrations caused by two days of twin-turbocharged V-6 engine-powered Indy cars tearing past them at 200-plus miles per hour won’t exactly be good for them. If you haven’t

First report: Freedom 250 Grand Prix: Bowser urges Metro use amid road closures and parking restrictions — fox5dc.com, 13d