Trump proposes painting executive office building white
Source: CBS News
Updated on: April 10, 2026 / 3:02 PM EDT
President Trump has submitted plans plans to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white to a group that advises on architecture in Washington, D.C.
The French Second Empire-style, slate-gray building houses office space for members of the president's team, including the National Security Council.
The building sits across a driveway from the West Wing and was completed in 1888. The plans submitted by the president say that the Eisenhower Executive Office Building is an eyesore that has long been criticized and has fallen into disrepair since its completion. The plans say "the color, design, and massing of the existing structure does not align visually with the surrounding architecture and lacks any symbolic cohesion with the White House." The plan points to examples of cracks and poor exterior maintenance and argues, "The benefit to painting the stone is that it is repeatable."
"The inability to bring the stone facade back to a baseline color has plagued the maintenance of the [Executive Office Building] in the past, and and will continue to plague it if not addressed," the plan says. The plans included renderings of what the building would look like if it's painted white.
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OR....
"Look over THERE!" (Don't look at me) LOOK OVER THERE!"
Conclusion:
He's a MORON and a SCARED LITTLE BRAT.
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.... then I was aware of.
Still, there is no proposal to tear it down, just to paint it. Too bad Eisenhower didn't do it. It's a real piece of junk.
But, like, that's just my opinion, man.
I need to watch that movie one if these days. 
ETA - I saw this article a couple of hours ago and usonian posted a link...i.e., paint would essentially damage the granite - https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/politics/eisenhower-executive-office-building-paint-trump
and the the city still has a number of buildings from that same era as the EOB, including "Memorial Hall" (built for the U.S.'s first hosting of the World's Fair and the country's centennial, dubbed the "Centennial Exposition of 1876" ) -
I agree the style is horrid and a historic oddity, but was used quite a lot in the late 1800s.
since you sent me down the rabbithole 
But here is something almost identical (same era) - Philly's City Hall -
It's like a twin to the EOB, but with a tower!
They renovated and painted the top of the clock tower (a 5 year project), although that top is mostly iron.
... sometimes life in the rabbit hole has its rewards!
That is some pile of granite! or of whatever!
The style reminds me of one of those fake "village" or "small town" suburbs that is around where I live: Maple Lawn. Not quite as overboard, but still reminiscent. The area gives me the creeps. It's like a Walt Disney version of the Stepford Wives.
The stacks and layers of columns also reminds me or another disturbing low-brow architectural quirk - Note the "classical" columns stuck onto the facade at the top of the thinner brick structure - What the hell are they doing there? It's some sort of decorative gimcrack gimmick, and they stuck them on high so they can be seen from aways away. Very hokey.
Yes, I'm a critic.
I'm vibing on a different frequency with this one.
See this post above - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3648348
Stone isn't wood. If you have stone, you are talking a porous material and when the U.S. Capitol rotunda dome was renovated 10 years ago, the parts that were stone had to have special paint (most of the rest was wood or cast iron that had it's own special paint).
What is usually done with these types of buildings, is power-washing (I know my own FDR-era sandstone federal building was power washed back when funding was available for renovations in the '90s and later under Obama's ARRA program) but, they certainly didn't put any paint on it.
I had posted here the last time this came up - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143565982
And included in a reply there was a pic of that building under construction during the late 1800s -
Shrub's archived WH site had a history on the building - https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/eeobtour/historicalview-1800.html
Somebody needs to tear 'em down and build some strip malls. /s
