{"id":1486,"date":"2026-05-29T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:08:11","slug":"trump-is-using-the-presidency-to-get-what-he-wants-for-an-extreme-makeover-of-the-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"Trump is using the presidency to \u2018get what he wants\u2019 for an extreme makeover of the nation\u2019s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><div><div><div><!-- Perf: warm up font + image hosts early -->\n<div>\n<div>\n<!-- VISIBLE CARD CONTENT; NO data-arc-bind DUPLICATES HERE -->\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span>By <\/span>\n<br\/>\n<\/p>\n<!-- SHAREBAR -->\n<div>\n<div>\n<button>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<g>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button>\n<span>Close<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Share<\/h2>\n<p>Send this article to your social connections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<title>Share on Facebook<\/title>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Facebook<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>X<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<g>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Bluesky<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<g>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>LinkedIn<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Threads<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>WhatsApp<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<button>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<g>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Copy Link<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<button>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<title>Print this Article<\/title>\n<g>\n<\/g>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<span>\n<svg>\n<title>View Comments<\/title>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><p><span><span>W<\/span><\/span><span><span>ASHINGTON \u2014 Taking a tour of our nation\u2019s capitalthese days requires some flexibility. Most of the city\u2019s landmarks still boast their customary glimmering marble structures, heroic statuary, and carefully manicured landscapes. But as of late, road closures, heavy machinery, and miles of fencing have encroached upon Washington\u2019s iconography.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=1482\">Celebrini and Crosby score as Canada eliminates Team USA in men\u2019s World Hockey Championship<\/a><\/p><p><span>That creep of construction is emblematic of a President Trump-directed makeover being thrust upon the capital \u2014 one sealed with the promise that by the end of his second term, D.C. will be more beautiful than ever. While aesthetic merits are arguable, one conclusion is without doubt: if he is successful, Trump\u2019s imprint on Washington will be felt long after he leaves office.<\/span><\/p><\/div><div><p><span>\u201cArchitecture and power and politics are tied in together,\u201d John Odhiambo Onyango, chair of Howard University\u2019s department of architecture,said of Trump\u2019s effort to leave his mark. \u201cBuildings are symbols of power because they stay for a very long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p><div><div><div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div><div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div><div><div><label>Enter Email<\/label><div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><span>From the mind of the builder-in-chief, potential changes radiate some 2 miles across the capital, reading like a MAGA tourist\u2019s map of Trump\u2019s physical legacy in Washington:beginning in the gilded confines of the Oval Office, past the seven-story-high flagpoles looming over the White House, detouring around an empty \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d Reflecting Pool, and government buildings draped with banners of Trump\u2019s face, culminating across the Potomac River with an extravagant granite arch that seems lifted straight out of a Paris postcard.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Though redecoration of the White House is a common feature of presidential transitions, Trump\u2019s maximalist approach is not. His office is festooned with gold accents, portraits of somewhat obscure 19th-century presidents, and shiny diplomatic gifts. The West Wing Colonnade, which connects the Oval Office to the executive mansion, had its flagstone flooring replaced with black granite at Trump\u2019s behest to minimize his risk of slipping. <\/span><\/p><p><span>The corridor wall passed on his daily commute is outfitted with a \u201cPresidential Walk of Fame\u201d that features photos of each president accompanied by corresponding informationalplaques, many written in partisan prose by Trump himself. Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cportrait\u201d is not of the former president but an image of an autopen,for instance, with a plaque that declares him, \u201cby far, the worst President in American History.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Just outside, Trump paved over the White House Rose Garden to createa patio space with lawn furniture reminiscent of his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago,and later added statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Looking upward, the massive 88-foot-tall flagpoles that protrude from both White House lawns are hard to miss.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Still, no change has left a bigger footprint than the demolition of the White House East Wing a few hundred feet away.<\/span><\/p><p><span>The gargantuan, 90,000-square-foot ballroom set to replace the old structurehas also taken up a lot of space in Trump\u2019s imagination. The president often deviates from the stated subject of public appearances to discuss the minutiae of the project: its \u201chand-carved\u201d Corinthian columns, bullet-proofing measures, \u201cmagnificent\u201d porch, and specializedAC system. A recent Washington Post analysis found Trump spoke publicly about the ballroom on a third of all days in 2026. Even in the wake of a failed assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April, Trump used the situation to underscore the necessity of the ballroom.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cWhen this opens, I\u2019ll be here for a very short period of time,\u201d Trump recently told reporters while standing in front of the ballroom construction site. \u201cThis is really being built for other presidents, it\u2019s not being built for me. And I\u2019m a really good builder. . . . This, this \u2014 there will never be anything like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Michael Cohen, who worked as a personal lawyer and \u201cfixer\u201d for  Trump for decades before the two had a falling out during his first term, said he\u2019s not surprised by the president\u2019s preoccupation with Washington\u2019s aesthetics.<\/span><\/p><div><div>\n<!-- Generated by ai2html v0.120.0 - 2026-05-28 20:19 -->\n<!-- ai file: white house graphic.ai -->\n<div>\n<!-- Artboard: Artboard_2_copy -->\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1484\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/74a171fa7bc8358b8bbbac7f607bd058-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<div>\n<p>black lives matter plaza<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kennedy center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>executive office building<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Proposed arch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>East Wing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>rose garden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Reflecting pool<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Walk of fame<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Photos: Kennedy center by Al Drago\/Bloomberg; Executive office building by  Jim Watson\/Getty; Black Lives Matter plaza by Jacquelyn Martin\/AP; Proposed arch by U.S. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS; Reflecting pool by AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein; East Wing by Graeme Sloan\/Getty Images; Rose garden by AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein; Walk of fame by AP Photo\/Evan Vucci. 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Graphic Ashley Borg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- End ai2html - 2026-05-28 20:19 --><\/div><\/div><p><span>\u201cTrump is, and has always been, extremely detailed and involved when it comes to real estate projects,\u201d Cohen told the Globe. \u201cIn fact, he micromanages all aspects, from the type of marble to the look of columns to even the color combination of carpets.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Most of the projects Trump is spearheading have also attracted plenty of public feedback, much of it negative. At an early March National Capital Planning Commission meeting reviewing the ballroom project, the panel received more than 30,000 written public comments, the vast majority of them critical of the ballroom\u2019s grandiose design.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cThe White House is \u2014 if not the most important \u2014 one of the two or three most important structures in the nation,\u201d said Alex Krieger,a Harvard urban design professor emeritus. \u201cSo you would think that any of its wings would not get to be bigger and taller or more lavish, with more architectural detail, than the White House itself.\u201d The proposed ballroom is nearly double the size of the 55,000-square-foot White House executive residence.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Even so, the commission in April voted to approve the ballroom. Similar to other obscure boards across Washington this term, Trump has stacked the commission with his allies.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Phil Mendelson, chair of Washington\u2019s City Council and an ex-officio member of the planning commission since 2012, said there is \u201ca huge contrast\u201d between the level of interest Trump showed in the panel during his first term compared to this one.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cHe is a developer at heart and he\u2019s in a unique position where he can play the role of developer and throw around the authority of the president of the United States,\u201d said Mendelson, a Democrat. Trump \u201cis uniquely able to control the process and get what he wants.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Strengthening the president\u2019s control of the project is the fact that he has raised $400 million in private funding for the ballroom, including donations from tech giants Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Palantir, plus wealthy families like those of Commerce Secretary Howard\u202fLutnick andformer Marvel Entertainmentchief executive Ike Perlmutter.<\/span><\/p><p><span>More recently, however, Trump has pressedCongress to allocate security funding for the ballroom. Senate Republicans initially tried to insert money for the ballroom\u2019s security features into a larger funding bill, but it was removed due to the Senate\u2019s complex legislative rules. <\/span><\/p><p><span>Congressional approval means more than just extra funds for security.The project is tied up in a lawsuit brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that argues Trump broke the law when he razed the East Wing and began construction on the ballroom without congressional input.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cThe current resident of the White House is a steward of a building that belongs to the American people,\u201d said Carol Quillen, chief executive of the trust, \u201cand by our Constitution, authority over it belongs to Congress. And so, for me \u2014 as somebody who\u2019s a proud American and who loves our democratic republic \u2014 who decides is a really important question.\u201d<\/span><\/p><div><div><\/div><\/div><p><span>Walk several hundred feet north from the massive pit where the East Wing once stood, through security checkpoints and steel gates, across Pennsylvania Avenue, and the brick paths of Lafayette Square stretch out toward you. Or they used to.<\/span><\/p><p><span>The public park, often occupied by protestsand famous for itspink magnolia trees in the spring, has been inaccessiblesince January. Trump reportedly wants the park\u2019s masonry paved over out of concern that future protesters could pick loose bricks off the ground and hurl them toward the residence.<\/span><\/p><p><span>In May 2020 \u2014amid mass protests against the police killings of George Floyd and countless other unarmed Black people \u2014 some protesters reportedly threw projectiles at Secret Service agents posted near the White House.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Just north of Lafayette Square, on land that technically belongs to the District of Columbia, the words \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d were painted in bold, yellow letters by a group of muralists in June 2020 with the backing of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=1480\">Thursday\u2019s playoff roundup: North Andover boys\u2019 volleyball tops Weymouth in coach Bill McEachern\u2019s finale<\/a><\/p><p><span>The mural was one of the first things torn up and replaced when Trump returned to power in 2025. <\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cIt did hurt a little bit,\u201d said artist Keyonna Jones, who helped paint the project, \u201cbecause how deep [Trump\u2019s] intention is to try to erase things is pretty impressive, for lack of a better term.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Walk two blocks west and a few hundred feet south on 17th Street, and just outside the West Wing gates sits the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which houses most White House staff. A Christopher Columbus statue has been erected outside one entrance at Trump\u2019s direction and more changes may be in store.The Trump administration has proposed painting the mostly gray building white to bring it in aesthetic alignment with the president\u2019s home.<\/span><\/p><p><span>The DC Preservation League has filed suit to stop the move, arguing that the exterior of the building, which is made of Maine granite, would be damaged if introduced to the moisture found in paint.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Rebecca Miller, executive director of the local preservation organization, said that in the 23 years she\u2019s worked there, friendly relations with the federal government had been the norm. That is, until the painting plans were announced. <\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re pro-change, we\u2019re pro-development,\u201d she added. \u201cBut these are publicly owned resources, these aren\u2019t the personal portfolio of the president.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Continuing south on 17th Street, past the fenced-off green expanse known as the Ellipse, and onto the National Mall, we turn west to find the iconic rectangular pool that sits between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument drained and fenced off. But what the Reflecting Pool has lost in hydration, it has gained in pigmentation: Trump is having the bottom of the pool repainted \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d in honor of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/span><\/p><p><span>As we travel past the Lincoln Memorial, across the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River, we hit a grassy traffic circle that sits on the edge of the D.C.-Virginia border, directly in front of Arlington National Cemetery. If Trump has his way, it will soon be home to the most high-profile of his semiquincentennial commemorations: a 250-foot triumphal arch.<\/span><\/p><p><span>The monumental idea was inspired, in part, by an article in the conservative publication The American Mind, written by art critic Catesby Leigh. Leigh argued that a temporary monumental arch in honor of the semiquincentennial would help D.C. evoke other major Western capital cities like Rome.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Leigh, a proponent of classical architecture, cofounded the National Civic Art Society, which advocates for monuments, memorials, and public architecture in the classical tradition. Trump has called on multiple people with close ties to the society, like architect and founding director of the society  Michael Franck, to guide his National Garden of American Heroes sculpture project near the National Mall.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Steven Semes, an architecture professor at Notre Dame and former member of the society, said he stepped away from it at the beginning of Trump\u2019s first term because he began having \u201cserious qualms\u201d about the policy direction of the group.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cI\u2019m glad I did,\u201d he added, \u201cbecause I think the organization has become more and more dedicated to promoting the projects that we see now, which I do not support.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>As a practitioner of classical architecture, Semes said it\u2019s not the arch\u2019s design that repelled him, it\u2019s the colossal size and placement. It\u2019s a view shared by a group of Vietnam War veterans who are suing the Trump administration, arguing that the arch was illegally commissioned without congressional approval and that the structure would interfere with the entrance to the cemetery, disrespecting those buried there.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cAn inarticulate, inanimate building can actually tell a story,\u201d Semes said, but the only story Trump\u2019s projects are telling \u201cis a kind of a self-celebration, which I don\u2019t think is appropriate for a US president.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Even Leigh, who suggested the arch, has revoked his support for the project after seeing Trump\u2019s version, citing its scale and permanence.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Krieger of Harvard thinks Trump\u2019s insistence that his projects be the biggest and most beautiful \u201chas less to do with deep aesthetic sensibility, and more to do with hubris.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>The US Commission of Fine Arts was established in 1910to be an aesthetic check on presidential excess in Washington\u2019s landscape. The design board was made up of seven experts who had review authority over all construction in the district. <\/span><\/p><p><span>Krieger, a Barack Obama appointee, was a member of the commission from 2012 to 2021. He said the body formerly \u201chad the highest esteem\u201d as an expert panel, but the current, Trump-appointed iteration \u2014 which includes the deputy director of Oval Office operations, a filmmaker, and a literary magazine publisher \u2014 is \u201cthere because they are just supporting the president.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Most of Trump\u2019s proposed projects have ambitious end dates, meant to be complete before his second term is over. Krieger said the design board\u2019s unanimous rubber stamp has allowed Trump\u2019s projects to move forward at a much faster clip than a thorough review would allow.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Neil Flanagan, an architect and public historian raised in D.C., believes Trump\u2019s manipulation of review boards lays bare both the fragility of their authority and the president\u2019s inclination toward flouting democratic traditions.<\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve expected the president to follow these norms, this kind of deference to experts, working with all the agencies, working with Congress, working with the D.C. government \u2014 and there\u2019s just kind of a little negotiation,&#8221; he said. \u201cI think what we see is none of that\u2019s working.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span>Back across the Memorial Bridge and north along the river bend sits another iconic building targeted for a Trump makeover. In fact, his name is already affixed to it.<\/span><\/p><p><span> The Kennedy Center is slated to close in July for two years so the administration can begin its $200 million plan to strip the building down to its steel frame. <\/span><\/p><p><span>Trump ousted the Kennedy Center board and replaced them with his supporters early in his second term. By December, the board, of which Trump is the chair, voted to rename the institution the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. In a sign that Trump anticipates his renovation wishes will be granted, in March, he installed Matt Floca, a facilities manager, as the center\u2019s president.<\/span><\/p><p><span>Miller, of the DC Preservation League, which has joined with a coalition to sue the administration to stop the construction, said the stacking of review boards with Trump loyalists \u201cmakes it feel like the public process is a farce.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span>\u201cThis is our shared heritage,\u201d Miller said. \u201cParticularly with the Kennedy Center, it\u2019s a living memorial to an assassinated president. I mean, how would people feel if this was the Lincoln Memorial? Is this up for grabs?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=1478\">FIFA and the 250th are coming. 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