Illustration by Gibson Kochanek Not only the big letters on the building have changed; someone made sure the name on a small maintenance van now reads “Trump Kennedy Center”. But the renaming of the Kennedy Center – Washington DC’s cultural heart – is just one part of a reinvention both chaotic and sinister, and on a recent visit I felt the city offered a series of eerie contradictions. There’s the plainly farcical: a Trump arts centre is about as credible as Trump University. But then there are fear-inducing architectural gestures reminiscent of fascism: just as Hitler saw the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and decided he needed a much larger one himself, so Trump has been inspired by Napoleon’s edifice. Above all, the atmosphere seems forlorn.…