Stephen Colbert gives Trump
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert slammed President Donald Trump’s planned $200 million White House ballroom, calling it a “big, dumb vanity project.”
But it turns out that’s just the beginning.
Trump is not limited to renovating the White House. It’s also trying to put its stamp on Washington, D.C., with a massive downtown arch that it displayed this week.

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Colbert’s audience began to mock him, but he interrupted them.
“No, it’s actually lovely,” he said. “It’s actually a set of two arches, and they told me we have the architectural representation.”
He showed what he said Trump’s “two arches” would look like in the nation’s capital:

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“Announcing your own triumphal arch is a textbook dictator,” Colbert said.
See more in his Thursday night monologue:
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