Trump wants to paint the Eisenhower office building white. Now a key federal agency considers it

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-eisenhower-building-paint-planning-commission-5e6e920004648c3e08a2beff5b3bdd79

Trump wants to paint the Eisenhower office building white. Now a key federal agency considers it
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Updated 5:09 AM CDT, May 7, 2026



WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposal to put a coat of white paint on the exterior of a 19th-century historic landmark building next to the White House is slated for a hearing Thursday by a key federal agency he expects to approve what would be a dramatic makeover.

The proposed painting of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building is one piece of a broader plan the Republican president has said will make Washington more beautiful.

Trump is making numerous changes inside and outside the White House and its grounds, most notably razing the East Wing to build a 1,000-person ballroom. Across the street from the mansion, Lafayette Park is closed for renovations that include getting the fountains working again.

The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to begin considering the plan on Thursday, according to its meeting agenda. Trump calls for painting all or most of the Eisenhower building’s gray granite exterior with white paint. He last year called the gray a “really bad color.”

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This should help Americans pay for their gas, groceries, utilities and insurance

[CTyankee]

1. Why? Just a bad color in his view is no reason to incur such a heavy cost, IMO. We Dems can talk about that!

[leftstreet]

2. Titanic. Deck chairs. Why can't he just die? n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Say bye bye to funds that could be used to help people.

Painting that building isn't going to be cheap.

[mopinko]

8. it's not easy to paint granite.

and it’s not gonna stay painted, either.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. No, it's not.

Same with brick, even though people do it.

[mopinko]

11. i shake my head every time i see painted brick.

the house i grew up in had a big fireplace that never functioned that i know of. saw the pics in a real estate listing and they painted it teal. i’ll admit it looks stunning, but it’s still stupid.
when we lived there, the gorgeous woodwork was all painted. always had been, i think. 1 owner stripped most of it, then the next idiot repainted it.

ppl r so stupid.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. The house I grew up in had painted woodwork.

I think that it was the in thing back in the 1950s, even though it was covering up what I believe was oak.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Leave historic buildings the f*ck alone!

[dalton99a]

6. He's like a crazy dog that has to piss on everything to leave his mark

[PatSeg]

13. Exactly

He is determined to leave his "mark" everywhere essentially saying, "I was here!" Reminds me of young kids writing their names in wet cement. He is still that insecure, young kid.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. "Trump is a moron, fixated by fabric swatches." -- Trump biographer.

A moron, fixated by fabric swatches

Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen

Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019

EXCERPT...

I tend to see my time with him — the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry — as his “King Midas” period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, “The Art of the Deal,” which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once he’d held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.

A real go-getter, right? But Trump’s portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day — which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his “French military helicopter” to Atlantic City — where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone — whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasn’t. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the “rack rate” (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldn’t cover the monthly payment of the loan he’d taken out to buy the place. In other words, he’d made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didn’t want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.

Source:

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[mopinko]

10. iirc the plaza was the deal

where the owners didnt want to sell to him, so he got a shill to buy it. he ended up paying an extra $100k for it. which was real money at the time.

[bif]

14. The Rapist is a simpleton.