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WIRED's Walking Tour of President Trump’s Renovated Washington, DC 65%
By Condé Nast0%
7/2/2026, 4:00:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Fundamental Attribution Error, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 55.5% saturation with 231 hits. Analysis detected 1,124 faulty-reasoning hits from 416 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.3% and a BS Rank of 65% (7,717 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.70% of the article peer group.
Washington, DC looks a little different these days.
Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has been physically remaking the city in his image.
As the US celebrates its 250th anniversary, visitors might be surprised to find the nation's capital undergoing immense change and, in many places, under scaffolding.
We begin our walking tour at Union Station and Columbus Circle, where unlike many of Trump's changes, the work has been largely welcomed.
The landmark has functional fountains and its marble sculptures have been cleaned of all of its grime.
Turning right onto Pennsylvania Avenue, a giant banner featuring Trump's face now stares down at you from the side of the Labor Department.
And just three blocks down is the second of the big Trump banners, this time on the side of the Justice Department.
The banners across the city are symbolic of Trump's efforts to exert total power across the entirety of the federal government, but the one located outside an agency that indicted him twice is particularly notable.
The White House itself is the scene of one of the most high-profile construction projects, Trump's Ballroom, which will sit on the site of the former East Wing, which he demolished.
The project, which Trump has claimed would be paid for by donors, has since expanded in size and scope and now includes a presidential bunker and a drone port on the roof.
Past the gray Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which Trump wants to paint bright white, you reach the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool, the renovation of which has been beset with problems from algae to tears in the sealant.
The algae bloom that turned the pool a murky neon green color has since been removed, but that has only made the torn linings even more visible.
One National Guard member patrolling near where the paint has peeled off recently told WIRED, “We could be doing more useful things than standing around here.”
There are two things we can't see on this walking tour.
One is the so-called Arc de Trump, a planned 250-foot triumphal arch that will tower over the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery and obscure views of the city.
Then there's the Kennedy Center, which no longer bears Trump's name after a federal district judge ordered its removal and now a tarp covers the spot where Trump's name once sat.
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