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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:10 AM Aug 29

Trump order makes classical architecture default style for federal buildings

Source: The Hill

08/28/25 6:19 PM ET


President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing classical architecture as the “preferred and default” style for federal buildings, the latest way Trump has sought to put his stamp on government structures. Trump’s order, titled “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again,” requires that he be notified 30 days in advance if government officials intend to approve a design for a federal building that veers into brutalist or deconstructive architecture.

“Applicable Federal public buildings should uplift and beautify public spaces, inspire the human spirit, ennoble the United States, and command respect from the general public,” the order states. “They should also be visually identifiable as civic buildings and, as appropriate, respect regional architectural heritage.”

“In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings absent exceptional factors necessitating another kind of architecture,” the order adds.

Trump, who spent decades in the real estate business, has made various aesthetic changes to the White House and floated other changes to government buildings during his second term.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5476268-trump-order-federal-architecture-beautification/



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Trump order makes classical architecture default style for federal buildings (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 29 OP
I think he means neoclassical C_U_L8R Aug 29 #1
No classical like Wolfgang Botany Aug 29 #15
Not neoclassical... Trueblue Texan Aug 29 #17
Don't rule out him wanting to build a Colosseum muriel_volestrangler Aug 29 #29
I sense the aura of hagiography formulating in the stable genius mind. bucolic_frolic Aug 29 #2
Albert Speer on Line 1 Prairie Gates Aug 29 #3
And as Berlin was being turned to rubble by Allied bombing and Soviet artillery Hitler was playing... Botany Aug 29 #8
... speak easy Aug 29 #16
Hitler died "young" by Chump's standards FakeNoose Aug 29 #21
Exterior Designer in Chief. 🙄 a guy with no class and apparently nothing better to do underpants Aug 29 #4
Ceasar has spoken LPBBEAR Aug 29 #5
What a boon for Home Depot polyurethane millwork sales! EarthFirst Aug 29 #6
Like religious fundamentalists and other reactionaries, what Turnip really hates is modernity itself. eppur_se_muova Aug 29 #7
This is why he admires the Taliban Walleye Aug 29 #28
President Tacky. enigmania Aug 29 #9
Oh my God! He's so stupid! That's not how this works. He doesn't get to decide that. Scrivener7 Aug 29 #10
Howard Roark would bitch-slap him . . . . . no_hypocrisy Aug 29 #11
And I would stand in line... GiqueCee Aug 29 #22
Calling Albert Speer! The Blue Flower Aug 29 #12
This paragraph exemplifies MSM JMCKUSICK Aug 29 #13
This is why no one pays attention to MSM johnnyfins Aug 29 #19
A variant on Soviet-style Social Realism, version 2.1 (The America update and patch) Torchlight Aug 29 #14
If he's dictating... GiqueCee Aug 29 #18
The next Dem president will have to undo all this crap FakeNoose Aug 29 #20
I don't recall the details . . . But . . . AverageOldGuy Aug 29 #23
It is where his tower is in NYC BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #26
The EPSTEIN files.....The EPSTEIN files........... Bengus81 Aug 29 #24
Says the guy who tore down gorgeous mwmisses4289 Aug 29 #25
Megalomania is a serious disorder Walleye Aug 29 #27
Same shit he tried during his first term. Also see Reply #3. Eugene Aug 29 #30

muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts)
29. Don't rule out him wanting to build a Colosseum
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:34 AM
Aug 29

He might even insist on his one being in the current state of the original, "for authenticity". But that wouldn't support having Hunger Games there.

bucolic_frolic

(52,405 posts)
2. I sense the aura of hagiography formulating in the stable genius mind.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:25 AM
Aug 29

Skyscraper Don becomes Pierre Charles L'Enfant and a Founding Father!

Botany

(75,307 posts)
8. And as Berlin was being turned to rubble by Allied bombing and Soviet artillery Hitler was playing...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:22 AM
Aug 29

… with models of his vision of what the new Berlin would look like.



But both Hitler and Trump are Fascists except Hitler is dead now and both are
or were batshit crazy. And both of them destroyed their nations and both of them
were “race warriors” for white people too.



FakeNoose

(38,640 posts)
21. Hitler died "young" by Chump's standards
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:09 AM
Aug 29

It's further proof that Chump has lived way too long already.

underpants

(192,985 posts)
4. Exterior Designer in Chief. 🙄 a guy with no class and apparently nothing better to do
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:38 AM
Aug 29

Lots of pillars and columns huh?

EarthFirst

(3,815 posts)
6. What a boon for Home Depot polyurethane millwork sales!
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:57 AM
Aug 29

Rustoleum gold spray-painted polyurethane appliqués on every door, transom and blank wall space as far as the eye can see!

eppur_se_muova

(40,010 posts)
7. Like religious fundamentalists and other reactionaries, what Turnip really hates is modernity itself.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:15 AM
Aug 29

He'd love to see everything frozen in the Sixties/Seventies, if not earlier -- in an idealized version of what things were, not as they actually were.




"Since 'tis Nature's way to change,
constancy alone is strange."

Scrivener7

(57,160 posts)
10. Oh my God! He's so stupid! That's not how this works. He doesn't get to decide that.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:36 AM
Aug 29

No matter what he does with a Sharpie.

GiqueCee

(2,823 posts)
22. And I would stand in line...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:14 AM
Aug 29

... to bitch-slap Ayn Rand (real name, Alisa Rosenbaum), the black-hearted goddess of pathological selfishness. I met her once, back in '67 or '68, if only for a 2-second dead-fish hand-shake in a reception line after a vile speech I was forced to attend by my frothing-at-the-mouth "Objectivist" employers at the time.
She was a horrible person who screeched her hatred of altruism at every opportunity. She's long dead now, but her poisonous influence lives on in the sick and twisted soul of every Republican that Satan ever defecated.

JMCKUSICK

(3,917 posts)
13. This paragraph exemplifies MSM
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:21 AM
Aug 29

"Trump, who spent decades in the real estate business, has made various aesthetic changes to the White House..."
Aesthetic? Aesthetic? Are you fucking kidding me? Fucking aesthetic, he destroyed the place, its history, and every ounce of class that it ever had in its designs.
Aesthetic changes my ass.

johnnyfins

(2,902 posts)
19. This is why no one pays attention to MSM
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:04 AM
Aug 29

anymore. Their content(it used to be news) sucks ass.

Torchlight

(5,695 posts)
14. A variant on Soviet-style Social Realism, version 2.1 (The America update and patch)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:23 AM
Aug 29

He's turning into quite the little red of late.

FakeNoose

(38,640 posts)
20. The next Dem president will have to undo all this crap
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:06 AM
Aug 29

What a waste of valuable resources. Why hasn't DOGE fired him yet?

AverageOldGuy

(2,954 posts)
23. I don't recall the details . . . But . . .
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:14 AM
Aug 29

didn’t Trump destroy a historic and architecturally significant building facade in NYC?

As I recall he purchased a historic building and agreed to preserve the art deco facade. He the proceeded to bring in a crew of undocumented workers, forced them to live in the empty building, and had them rip off the old, historic facade?

Someone needs to publicize that.

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
26. It is where his tower is in NYC
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:27 AM
Aug 29

He completely razed the original Bonwitt-Teller building that was there.

https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/the-travesty-of-trump-tower-and-bonwit-teller/



It's been publicized for over 40 years but no one seems to care (except maybe architecture and art officiandos), and notably of no interest to people who don't live in NYC (or even who live there). People didn't seem to care about the "Access Hollywood" tapes so...

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