Since returning to the White House earlier this year, President Trump has made quick work reshaping Washington, D.C. in his image, in some cases literally.

That will be on full display during what he's calling the Trump Kennedy Center Honors, which is being broadcast on TV tonight.

The president hosted the event from the recently and controversially renamed building,

one that has roots tracing back to the Eisenhower administration more than 60 years ago.

Stephanie Syne takes a closer look at its history and evolution.

When the building opened to the public in 1971, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts stood as a

living memorial to the late president. That legacy stood untouched until last week when the Kennedy

Center board, most of whom were appointed by President Trump, followed through on the president's

wishes and voted to rename it, the Trump Kennedy Center.

While it takes an act of Congress to make that official, construction teams wasted no time.

Within 24 hours, President Trump's name was emblazoned alongside Kennedy's in the marble facade.

For more on this change and how it's part of a larger effort by the president,

I'm joined by presidential historian Mark Uptogrove. Mark, it's a pleasure to have you on the show.

Comment on this move. Is there any precedent for a sitting president to have major cultural buildings

named after him, especially ones in which they themselves control

the board? No, not at all. I mean, it would be unthinkable, I think, for a president to even entertain

being the chairman of the Kennedy Center board. That was unprecedented. The president is presiding

over the nation. He has some big problems to resolve. And I think the American people

would agree that that is not the function of a president. We don't want to see our president

acting as the chairman of the board for the Kennedy Center. We want him addressing the challenges

and the problems that come across his desk as being not only the president of our nation,

but for all practical purposes, the leader of the free world.

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