Trump didn’t buy the Bonwit Teller building to preserve a historical monument. He wanted to create a monument to himself. Last week’s surprise demolition of the White House’s East Wing wasn’t the first time Trump destroyed a great American building By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm Donald Trump’s relationship to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was permanently damaged early on. He refused to donate artworks that he had promised to the museum and instead had them destroyed, along wit...
