I didn't quite realize the size that we were talking about here.

So, I mean, it's huge.

It's really huge.

Welcome to the Mona Charon Show.

So glad you could join me today in a little bit of a break from the other momentous news that we are experiencing right now,

I wanted to take a moment to talk about Trump's aesthetic assault on the country and

specifically on the city that I live in.

And the perfect person to talk about this with is my guest, Philip Kennecott, who is the

arts and architecture critic, I think also performing arts at the Washington Post.

And he has written very eloquently about the nature of some of the changes

that Trump is undertaking. So, Phil, thank you very much for being here. Thanks for having me.

Some of the ways in which Trump is attempting to blast his name all over the Capitol and rename things in his own honor.

Some of those things are temporary.

The Trump Kennedy Center can be chiseled off.

The Trump Peace, the Institute of Peace, same thing. Even the Rose Garden at the White House that he paved

over, I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult to tear that up. Marie's put back the old garden,

though we'll never have the flowers that we knew were planted by particular administrations, first ladies,

who took such care over the years. And honestly, my heart broke a little bit about that.

Okay, I should just say, this is not a personal issue for me in the sense of I'm a citizen

and I care about it, but I should also just say,

for the record, that I had the great privilege of working in the White House in the Reagan years.

So I am intimately familiar with the East Wing that is no more.

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