Carville: Trump ‘wants to destroy’ Washington, DC

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Democratic strategist James Carville said Wednesday that President Trump’s attempts to reshape and rename multiple landmarks throughout and just outside Washington, D.C., as well as create new ones, point to his “particular hatred” for the nation’s capital.

Carville discussed on his podcast “Politics War Room” the MS NOW report that Trump pushed to have his name added in some way to Ford’s Theatre, the historic site where Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth assassinated former President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

The report follows the repeated efforts of the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board to add his name to that performing arts center.

“Trump has a particular hatred for Washington, D.C.,” Carville said. “Why do you think he is trying to defile everything he can, from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery to the Reflecting........

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