An Alien Scholar’s Notes on Trump’s Washington

We’ll start this conference looking back on 2026 Washington Architecture by being honest: We have no idea what happened here. The snapshot of this planet that my comrades and I managed to obtain on our brief visit left us, if anything, more confused about Earth than we had been before. What follows are theories only. All we know of 21st-century human political figure Donald J. Trump is what we can guess from the architectural record and a few bits of digital evidence. (Due to a…