That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that surprising; that he did so in actuality and not just metaphorically was a bit of a shock. “Sir, why are you on the roof?” one journalist asked, when the President suddenly appeared on the flat-top exterior of the White House this week. “Taking a little walk,” the President replied. The unusual photo op captured Trump, accompanied by his architect, surveying from on high how his planned two-hundred-million-dollar, ninety-thousand-square-foot ballroom, to be built in place of the current East Wing, will transform the executive campus. He might have also wanted a bird’s-eye view of the newly Trumpified Rose Garden, the iconic green space designed by Bunny Mellon, which was recently paved

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