Donald Trump Really Wants This Golf Course
The government is going to considerable—bordering on absurd—lengths to make a D.C. park worthy of the PGA.
Kelsey Ables
Kelsey Ables is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She previously worked at The Washington Post. She can be reached on Signal at kables.48.
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Nathan Howard / AP The Cutest Target of Trump’s D.C. Makeover
A mini-golf course
Eric Lee for The Atlantic Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes
The White House is threatening $190 million in Smithsonian funding.
Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
Kevin Carter / Getty Why Does Donald Trump Hate This Sculpture?
The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C.
Christine Kao / The Washington Post / Getty Why Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian
After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.
Al Drago / The Washington Post / Getty The White House Wants to Make the Smithsonian a Pariah
A renewed threat underscores the museum complex’s isolation—and the limits of Trump’s pressure campaign.
Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic A Freedom 250 Event That Actually Worked
Other patriotic spectacles this summer felt like Trump rallies. This was a car race.
Mike Kropf / Getty The New History Wars
A bookish form of protest is opposing Trump’s changes.
Kevin Dietsch / Getty One Problem With Attacking the Smithsonian? Americans Like It.
Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Library of Congress.
