Bill Clinton knocks Trump over arch, Kennedy Center moves

Former President Clinton is knocking President Trump’s plans for a triumphal arch and the efforts to put his name on the Kennedy Center, saying that global challenges would be more easily dealt with if leaders “didn’t care as much about who got the credit.”

The 42nd president delivered opening remarks at the opening of the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Tuesday. As he took to the lectern, Clinton quickly referenced Trump’s recent announcement that plans for a massive arch bridging Washington and Virginia would incorporate a “top grade military complex” that would be used to store drones.

“I think it’s important to take a few minutes to assess where we are now and the environment in which we are meeting,” Clinton said. 

“I suppose I could take my entire allotted time to discuss the self-evident wisdom of building an Arc de Triomphe in Washington to hold all our drones,” the former president said to laughs from the audience.

“Some of this stuff — it’s hard to make up,” he added. 

“Over the course of a lifetime, there are only so many real opportunities to make decisions that we know will shape our personal history and the history........

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