How Donald Trump reshapes in Washington, DC, in his image

President Donald Trump chairs one of Washington’s most dramatic transformations, DC, in a generation, while he makes monumental modifications to the historic white house complex, federalizes local police as part of a “embellishment” campaign, takes control of the District and Dictate District Arts Center what should be exposed in national museums.

Trump adopts a more practical approach to district problems than any of his recent predecessors when he tries to redo the capital in his image, while raising what he calls “wokes”, homeless, hardened criminals, illegal and others.

In Trump’s DC, there will be no more “wild, dirt and foam,” he said.

As he tightens his grip on the federal district which, according to him, has been seriously managed for decades, Trump has categorically excluded the granting of DC. This is something that residents have long requested, and it would hinder their efforts to exercise more control over what is happening in this city of 700,000 inhabitants.

“What we want to do is do Washington, DC, the largest, the most beautiful and the most beautiful capital in the world, and that will happen,” Trump told journalists on Wednesday.

“They already say:” he is a dictator “,” he said about his democratic criticisms. But Trump insisted that DC “goes to hell. We have to stop him”.

This week, federal agents were on patrol in some parts of the district, arresting dozens of alleged criminals during the first days of Operation Trump.

The city’s democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, initially called the “disturbing” deployment. But it has been largely in defense to Trump, saying that she is powerless to stop her efforts and that more officers in the streets “can be positive”.

Barbara Perry, co -president of the presidential oral history of the University of Virginia and member of the board of directors of the White House Historical Association, Trump’s DC intervention told CBC was really unprecedented.

“No other president was interested in all the different facets of Washington, DC,” said Perry.

“Most presidents generally have much more on their plate than worrying about rethinking the White House. And the crime and the police-these have long been considered local problems,” she said, especially after the district was granted in the 1970s.

New ballroom

In the center of the ambitious Trump plan to embellish the capital is a new massive ballroom on the White House field.

Although there are strict guidelines for what can be built on this venerated site on Pennsylvania avenue – smaller changes in the past have taken months, even years, to study and approve – Trump officials have already said that construction on the obstacle space will be underway in September.

Trump is launching a structure of 200 million US dollars of 90,000 square feet which should survive the wing existing and part of the green space of the property – a room inherited for the old real estate magnate. The proposed building is almost double the size of the existing structure.

“Part of his real estate developer character is plastering Trump’s name on everything he had or wanted to own,” said Perry. “He considers himself a businessman and a developer and the desire to build something like this giant ballroom – it’s just in his typing area.”

The plan has aroused fierce criticism of architectural purists, but the praise of others who say that the current building is too small for the main functions of the State. His defenders say that Trump is right that unsightly tents must be deployed on the lawn when more than 250 people are invited to an official event.

Stephen Ayers, acting CEO of the American Institute for Architects, which was entrusted by President Theodore Roosevelt over a century ago to be the “perpetual goalkeeper” of the architectural integrity of the White House, urges prudence.

“1600 Pennsylvania avenue is the popular house, a national treasure and a lasting symbol of our democracy. Any modification for him – in particular the modifications of this magnitude – should reflect the importance, the scale and the symbolic weight of the White House itself,” said Ayers.

Trump’s proposed structure “raises concerns concerning the scale and balance,” he said, and all adds should be adjusted so that they align with “the historical character of the White House”.

Others have been more frank, calling for the added addition “hideous”, “ugly”, stupid “and seeing given the liberal use of gold.

“I can see where this ballroom would be useful and necessary. We had trouble with the lists of guests when I was there,” said Anita McBride, the former chief of staff to former Laura Bush, who helped plan social events. “With tent events, you really can’t say that you are dinner in the White House, because you are not. You are on the lawn. It’s not as attractive, in my mind.”

There has not been a lot of structural change in the place since the period of the Second World War of the post -year – and even then, it was a relatively minor addition, because the president of the time, Harry Truman, added a balcony on the second floor of the executive residence.

Truman has also emptied the interior after decades of negligence. Roosevelt overturned the greenhouses of early war to build the western wing in 1902. His distant cousin, former president Franklin Roosevelt, added the oval office as he was known today in 1934.

McBride, who also worked in Reagan and HW Bush administrations, said it was the president’s prerogative to do what he wants with the place – with a few limits, of course.

“The building has evolved over 233 years. It was by changes before and with many of them, there were strong feelings on both sides, but we finally adapted,” she said. “It will take a while to get used to it.”

Trump’s recent Balle Salle project to pave Trump to pave part of Jacqueline Kennedy’s rose garden to install new tiles for an outdoor patio and have put two imposing flag posts on each side of the White House to boldly pilot stars and scratches.

In a nod to his Trump Tower apartment, the president placed gold details throughout the oval office and other interior spaces in a building that was much more modest when it opened in 1800.

“The White House was built by our founding fathers, especially George Washington, so as not to be like the Palais de Europe. But I am not sure they could have imagined the kind of world in which we live today,” said McBride. “This is the personal preference of this president. Maybe it’s not to everyone’s taste, but it’s Trump. Although he’s there, that’s how he wants.”

Croi du crime, Takeover Kennedy Center

Beyond the doors of the White House, Trump promises an ambitious campaign to repair the district parks, roads and medians because he said that the current configuration was “embarrassing” when world leaders come to see him.

Bowser, the mayor of DC, postponed Trump’s account, saying that the city is already more beautiful and safe than it was – tourism figures are up and that commercial activity has improved after post -comfortable collapse.

But Trump described the city in dystopian terms while it was moving to deploy the DC National Guard in the streets of the capital.

His DC control does not stop there.

Trump requisitioned the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s Board of Trustees, which then installed it as a chair.

He dropped allegedly progressive programming and promoted a summer summer calendar The miserablewhich has just finished a closed five -week shopping race on his watch.

Now Trump will personally welcome the Center annual award ceremony and will give famous winners of famous hand in hand in order to generate television ratings.

He also led renovation efforts to this space, recently convinced the Republicans in the Congress to allocate $ 257 million for a overhaul. Some of his allies in the congress are renowned for the building opera after the first lady Melania Trump.

And then there is the Smithsonian, which, earlier this year, deleted a reference to Trump’s dismissal at the first mandate of the Museum of American History – he returned later with a modified text.

This week, the managers of the White House urged the best administrator of the museum to reassess what is exposed when the country approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026.

The White House wants visitors to see exhibitions that “celebrate American exceptionalism”.

“There is nothing traditional in the way Trump wants to get things done,” said McBride. “He makes things done in his own way – the way he is used to it.”