How Trump is leaving his mark – literally – on Washington and beyond: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.

In today’s edition, Andrea Mitchell reviews the ways President Donald Trump is leaving a physical stamp on the nation’s capital. Plus, we dig into the Cabinet officials Republicans want on the stump this fall.

Programming note: We’re off tomorrow ahead of the holiday weekend. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump often describes himself as a builder.

Last week, he showed off the new helipad covering a large swath of the South Lawn to visiting schoolchildren. He frequently displays renderings of his proposed arch and ballroom in the Oval Office. And during a meeting with oil industry executives earlier this year, he extolled the ballroom excavation that could be seen outside an East Room window, which the Supreme Court has allowed to proceed.

There is no question that Trump is reshaping national parks, memorials and the physical landscape of the nation’s capital. Today, a federal judge blessed the administration’s plans to replace a popular, inexpensive public golf course with what he has called a “world…

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