EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Renovation Projects Threaten Historic Standards Nationwide, Preservation Leader Warns — After Prez's Reflecting Pool Update Flops

The legal battle over changes to Donald Trump's takeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is about far more than one historic landmark, according to The Cultural Landscape Foundation founder and CEO Charles Birnbaum, who warned the dispute reflects what he sees as a broader erosion of longstanding federal preservation standards.