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Trump’s wild new plan for DC leaves experts furious

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President Donald Trump’s various Washington DC renovations have aroused tremendous controversy, from his destruction of the White House’s East Wing and West Wing Colonnade and failed Reflecting Pool renovations . Now a prominent architecture critic is warning that Trump plans on further changes to Washington DC — alterations that, despite being unpopular, will be very hard to reverse. “The proposed ‘Arc de Trump’ in Washington is less a monument than a gaudy construction the height of a skyscraper — a travesty that, if built, would dramatically change the landscape of the nation’s capital,” reported The New York Times' Paul Goldberger on Sunday . “This is probably why President Trump is so eager to get it made as fast as he can. It would be an unavoidable monument to a presidency and a man whom many Americans would rather not honor so conspicuously, if at all. He understands that once it is there, it will be hard to for anyone to make it go away.” Goldberger described how Trump’s admin

First report: 'Gaudy' Arc de Trump obliterated by scathing Times critic: 'Travesty' — rawstory.com, 2d