WASHINGTON WEEK: President Trump will slap tariffs on any country, at any time, for any reason. It’s a dramatic and destabilizing way to manage America’s economy and our relationships with other countries. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Tyler Pager of The New York Times and Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama of The Atlantic to discuss this and more.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG, ‘WASHINGTON WEEK’ HOST, THE ATLANTIC: Right. The — I have to ask you guys, you’re White House correspondents, and something very strange happened at the White House this week, we had a little bit of a president on the roof situation. Here, you can watch this for yourselves. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Something beautiful. REPORTER : What does that mean? TRUMP: It’s more ways to spend my money. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Was he — I mean, this is criminology, I guess, or White Houseology, was he suggesting that he’s building a dome over the West Wing? JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yes. The hand gestures disturbed me, frankly. He’s already paved over the rose garden. He’s adding a ballroom. This seems to be — maybe he’s adding a second level, expanding extreme — JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: The amount of gold in the Oval Office is astounding. TYLER PAGER, THE ATLANTIC: Each day, each time we see it, there’s more and more of a — I mean, it is clear he is making this his own. He wants to leave a mark, but he also wants to turn the White House into a place that he enjoys spending time. That is why he built basically a Mar-a-Lago patio over the Rose Garden. It’s why he’s building a ballroom. He’s making this into his home. And he’s inspecting it like it’s his personal property. That’s what we saw with him walking on the roof. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Well, seeing him — that was his natural element. He’s looking at a building and trying to figure out what to do with it. That’s what he spent most of his life doing. But, nevertheless, I’m going to press on it. Is he building a dome on the West Wing, because that will look very, very strange? I mean, he was making the international sign for, I’m building a dome. TYLER PAGER: You don’t want to over interpret what Trump’s hand motions are at any point. You just don’t know. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: I mean, I think it’s literally my job, but, okay, I won’t for purposes of the show. JONATHAN KARL: I mean, he’s planning to build in 90,000-square-foot ballroom. That house there, that White House is 55,000 square feet. So, I mean, he’s got big plans. And to me, it says something about the difference between the first presidency and the second Trump presidency. The first Trump presidency kind of came and went. It was rather ephemeral in its effects on the country despite what we all saw at the time. This one, he’s making more radical changes to the country and to the White House that’ll live well beyond his presidency.

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