Amanda Carpenter: ‘The Capital City Is Ours,’ None of It Belongs to Trump

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CARPENTER: “The fact that he is doing a Trump MAGA rally on July 4th really puts into focus. But anyone that visits Washington, D.C. right now can see how it has changed. Yes, there's now a giant tarp over the Kennedy Center because he got his name stripped off, but he still put his name on it. He put his name on the Institute of Peace, which is right by that building. He has wrecked the reflecting pool, which is just around the road. You drive down Pennsylvania Avenue and you see federal buildings with his face and banners covering it. He wants to put that Gaudy Arc de Trump, which I call the ego arch, in the middle of the view between Lincoln and the Arlington National Cemetery, which was designed so people could reflect on the Civil War and all the sacrifices that were made in this country to free it from slavery. And he wants to put himself in the middle of it. And none of this belongs to him. I mean, this is why it's such a gross abuse of power. It's not just, well, Trump is an egomaniac. None of it belongs to him. The capital city is ours. He did not get permission to do any of this, to spend any of this money. And it's just being thrown in our faces on our nation's 250th birthday party.”