Inside Trump’s Mad Dash to Renovate Washington
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a minute, we make a podcast called The Daily. |
| 0:06.1 | Sure. |
| 0:07.1 | We're in town looking at all of the renovations and construction work that the president's |
| 0:14.0 | undertaken, the Reflectable, Lafayette Park, and the arch that's going to be built behind |
| 0:19.0 | us. And we're just trying to figure out what people are thinking about it. I think it's a mess. I really I'm really disappointed because we're |
| 0:26.5 | here for my granddaughter's 16th birthday. She wanted to come to D.C. see all the stuff and I really |
| 0:32.5 | thought that pool would be finished. I'm very sad that this year our trip, they're renovating the pool |
| 0:38.5 | because all the other years before |
| 0:40.9 | they saw very nice views from the pool |
| 0:43.1 | and we don't get to see it. |
| 0:45.3 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. |
| 0:48.9 | What do you think about the reflecting pool? |
| 0:52.8 | This is the Daily. |
| 1:07.0 | In the lead-up to America's 250th birthday this summer, President Trump is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a massive renovation of the nation's capital. I think it's good. I mean, they're fixing it up, making it look pretty. I mean, this is Washington, D.C., everyone's going to come here. |
| 1:12.8 | And depending on where you sit, these projects are either boldly slicing through bureaucratic |
| 1:20.1 | red tape to bring Washington back to its glory. |
| 1:23.9 | Love him. |
| 1:24.9 | I 100% behind him. |
| 1:26.2 | He's making this wonderful D. wonderful DC look greatly beautiful again. |
| 1:30.3 | Tell us about the arch. |
| 1:31.3 | The arch. |
| 1:32.3 | 100% behind the arch as well. |
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