The Cutest Target of Trump’s D.C. Makeover

In contrast, the plan for a professional-grade course risks sharing a heavy-handed quality with Trump’s other D.C. projects. Ideas like the triumphal arch are “all sort of plopped down in the landscape, aggressively and without any recognition of continuity of visual and spatial relationships,” Charles Birnbaum, a landscape architect who leads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a group that has opposed many of Trump’s changes, told me.