You know how Hollywood stars sometimes age in rather upsetting ways? The combination of years, misadventure, and too many trips under the surgeon’s knife begins to accumulate, and before you know it, your old screen favorites suddenly begin to resemble grotesque, poorly-carved wax dummies of themselves.
The same thing is happening to the White House before our eyes, under the second presidency of Donald Trump. It is being “Trumpified.” Readers are likely already familiar with the drama, which began last year when Trump demolished the East Wing with plans to add a “big, beautiful ballroom.” Two months later, he suddenly set up a brand new “presidential walk of fame” in the White House, occupying the wall of an exterior hallway that runs along the Rose Garden. (Trump also remodeled the Rose Garden earlier last year, replacing its famous lawn with a stone patio.)
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