Trump plans to "TRUMP-ify" the "White House's iconic front entrance, which has stood for nearly 200 years"

[Miles Archer]

Following the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make room for President Donald Trump’s ballroom, the Trump administration has its sights set on another key fixture of the historic building, one that left architects and designers “baffled or even horrified,” The Washington Post reported Sunday.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr., who Trump tapped to lead the Commission of Fine Arts, is “proposing” to replace the columns at the White House’s front entrance – known as the North Portico – with more ornate-style Corinthian columns with a more luxurious appearance, a style of architecture Trump has “long preferred,” the Post reported.

“Corinthian is the highest order [of column], and that’s what our other two branches of government have,” Cook Jr. said in an interview last week, per The Post. “Why the White House didn’t originally use them, at least on the north front, which is considered the front door, is beyond me.”

The suggestion that the White House’s iconic front entrance may see its columns – which have stood for nearly 200 years – ripped out and replaced left several architects and designers floored.

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-2676149587/

[Bettie]

1. How long before he has the entire building

spray painted gold and puts in gold tinted windows?

Oh, and the big logo on the portico and billboards with his ugly face all around the place?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Is painting the exterior gold next?

drumpf has the most excerable taste imaginable.

[bluestarone]

3. Jesus Christ, he wants us to live with bastards for years after he croaks.

Can no one stop this fucker?

[dem4decades]

4. Well it is his castle isn't it? We pay taxes to the Sovereign to do what he may.

[Blues Heron]

5. He will demolish the whole thing, that is the ultimate plan.

Same with the Kennedy Center- it’s doomed.

[UpInArms]

6. Obama told us in 2012

[Irish_Dem]

7. Trump's goal is to destroy the WH and rebuild it in his depraved image.

[Onthefly]

8. And plans to be its permanent resident.

[Miles Archer]

11. Like Hugh Hefner dying in his mansion

He saw the end coming, and sold the Beverly Hills mansion with the proviso that he be allowed to live there until he died. Hey, it was a big place. The new owner would probably never run into him, unless he wanted to.

I can't allow myself to buy into the possibility of Trump refusing to leave, even though I know it's absolutely a possibility.

But on January 20, 2029, TRUMP'S SECRET SERVICE becomes the NEXT PRESIDENT'S SECRET SERVICE, and even though I am sure everyone involved would balk at the idea, it would be within the rights of the new President and HIS / HER Secret Service to HAVE TRUMP PHYSICALLY REMOVED if he chose not to leave.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Worse is what he's done to the Constitution.

Just-Us John Roberts and his chums also must face justice at Nuremberg 2.0. NO IMMUNITY!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. lol every once in a while I think about Biden saying "Welcome home" to Trump on inauguration day 2025

he took it seriously AND literally I guess

[GenThePerservering]

12. The fact that Cook Jr needs a clue as to why

the WH pillars are not Corinthian shows how little he knows about architectural history. 🙄

[themaguffin]

13. he's hellbent on destroying the country and anything historic

[sakabatou]

15. They're going to try and turn it into another one of Dump's casinos, aren't they?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. The White House's original architect picked the Ionic columns.

trump's proposed columns are horrible. After trump dies or leaves office, these renovations including the oval office and if trump lives that long the ball room need to be torn down and restored. The East wing needs to be restored

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