President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the east wing of the White House,

and in so doing, obliterated the line between metaphor and literal reality.

This was a week in which Trump, defying all norms of presidential behavior,

hosted an AI-generated video of himself wearing a king's crown,

dropping a plain load of excrement on protesters.

He also pardoned a convicted Crypto Kingpin,

who has worked to enrich the Trump's family's own crypto business,

and he asked the Justice Department to pay him $230 million

as reimbursement for legal costs he allegedly incurred

when the government he now controls investigated him.

Also, he seems to be going to war with Venezuela.

All this and more next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I want to start with an apology.

We pride ourselves here in our accuracy,

but we realized very late in the day that our backdrop is no

longer correct because it still features the east wing of the White House. Let me show you

where it used to be. So this right here, that was the east wing. Now it's a hole. That's just a

hole next to the White House. Over here, that's the West Wing.

That's still standing as far as we know,

although I'm not there right now to prove it.

In the back here, you got the, that's the Empire State Building.

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