It might seem silly or not worthy of attention to look into the Trump administration's

aesthetic decisions, all of the gold ornamentations smeared all over the Oval Office and

ballrooms and Arc de Triumphs and et cetera. But the aesthetic is a way to make it seem like things are changing and like

Trump is keeping his promises when he's actually not.

Coming up on more to the story, art historian Aaron Thompson on why people support the building

and destruction of political monuments. And why so much gold?

I mean, so much gold.

Don't go anywhere.

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Hey, it's Al, and 2025 has been a brutal year for public media. I got to tell you,

it is not easy to produce fearless journalism at a time when truth itself is under siege.

The one thing it takes is community.

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