The demolition of the East Wing of the White House, paving over Jacqueline Kennedy\u2019s Rose Garden, gilding the Oval Office and the Lincoln Bathroom, constructing a ballroom larger than the White House itself \u2014 all of this is part of the renovation work on the U.S. President\u2019s residence that Donald Trump is carrying out without permission from the competent authority. Now it is time for the renovation of the facade of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the structure across from the complex, which Trump will turn into a \u201cwhite blotch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walking with a Fox News reporter through his gilded Oval Office, Donald Trump waved papers and showed what he would change next within the White House complex, boasting that he builds better than anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve built many ballrooms and many buildings, and that\u2019s actually my greatest strength. (\u2026) I build better than anyone else. Nobody can build like I do,\u201d Trump told Fox News reporter Laura Ingraham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ingraham asked the U.S. president, who is currently on a spree of construction and aesthetic changes in the White House, whether he plans to change the color of the facade of the Executive Office Building, adding that she had \u201cheard a rumor\u201d about it. Trump then showed the reporter a blueprint, a visual rendering of the building in snow-white color \u2014 from the roof to the entry staircase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not worried it might look like a big white blotch?\u201d Ingraham asked Trump with a grimace as she looked at the design for the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. president dismissed that possibility. \u201cNo, no. It highlights all the details\u2026 Look how beautiful this is. And gray is for funerals,\u201d he replied, pointing to the current facade of the well-known building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most people think of the White House as one large white residential building located behind a tall fence and a long lawn. However, the presidential residence, in addition to the structure known worldwide, also includes the so-called West and East Wings \u2014 though the East Wing no longer exists, since Trump demolished it at the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Across the small parking lot belonging to the West Wing of the White House is the enormous building known as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB). Over the years, the building has had various names, and many Americans remember it as the Old Executive Office Building. Republicans renamed it in 1999 in honor of President Dwight Eisenhower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is precisely this building, whose facade is made of gray stone and whose copper roof has turned green with patina over time, that Trump now wants to repaint entirely in white. He told the Fox News reporter that he is \u201ccurrently collecting bids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n