Inside Trump’s Mad Dash to Renovate Washington

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The Daily

2026-06-01

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In the lead-up to America’s 250th anniversary, President Trump is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a major renovation of the nation’s capitol. David A. Fahrenthold, who has been investigating how the projects have come together, takes listeners on a walking tour of the sites being remade. Guest: David A. Fahrenthold, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, writing primarily about nonprofit organizations. Background reading:  See what’s wrong with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. A no-bid contract is turning the pool blue. Photo: Allison Robbert for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Do you have a minute?

  • We make a podcast called The Daily.

  • Sure.

  • We're in town looking at all of the renovations and construction work that the president's undertaken.

  • The Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park, and The Arch that's going to be built behind us.

  • And we're just trying to figure out what people are thinking about it.

  • I think it's a mess.

  • I'm really disappointed because we're here for my granddaughter's 16th birthday.

  • She wanted to come to D.C., see all the stuff, and I really thought that pool would be finished.

  • I'm very sad that this year, our trip,

  • they're renovating the pool because all the other years before, they saw very nice views from the pool.

  • Yeah, we should have been allowed to see it.

  • From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.