Ro Khanna
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11,119 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Sep
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hemispheric spheres of influence as opposed to, you know, sweeping imprints in far off lands for the most part.
When we talk about leaving his imprint, what we're referring to, and we describe this in the book a lot, is imprint all over Washington, the ballroom.
the Arc de Trump, the Kennedy Center, which is still an ongoing fight, these beautification projects he has all over, the yielding of the Oval Office, which we saw when we went in to see him in March, and neither of us had been there in the Oval since that had happened.
And it really is, it takes a second to take it in.
One of the things to remember about him is he was infuriated
during and after his first term that his name kept being taken off of buildings in new york that he lost a pga i don't remember if his tour pga forgive me for being a precise uh tournament that he really wanted at bedminster the new york city took away his lease and then ultimately had to give it back for a trump uh lynx golf course that was city property in the bronx um
He's not waiting for anyone else to recognize him this time.
And that is really the imprint that he's leaving.
But also it's across the culture.
And Jonathan, I think, can speak better to that than I can.
Yeah, I mean, one thing we cover in the book is his efforts to influence the arts and the museums.
You know, it's sort of flown under the radar a little bit.
Obviously, there's been a lot of coverage about eradicating DEI from universities and the government and corporate America.
But we have a portion of the book where they're trying to essentially influence what artwork is shown in different museums around the country.
And there's a pretty extraordinary scene where...
There are these Board of Regents meetings of the Smithsonian that we got inside, and you've got Lonnie Bunch, the first African-American director of the Smithsonian.
You have the Chief Justice, John Roberts, various other luminaries in the room.
And Vance is in there, and he leaves the room.
And one of his aides, who's like in his early 30s, holds up an iPad.
And it's a photo of that Amy Sherald painting, the transforming liberty, the trans woman with the torch.
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