Trump plans to "TRUMP-ify" the "White House's iconic front entrance, which has stood for nearly 200 years" [View all]

Following the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make room for President Donald Trump’s ballroom, the Trump administration has its sights set on another key fixture of the historic building, one that left architects and designers “baffled or even horrified,” The Washington Post reported Sunday.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr., who Trump tapped to lead the Commission of Fine Arts, is “proposing” to replace the columns at the White House’s front entrance – known as the North Portico – with more ornate-style Corinthian columns with a more luxurious appearance, a style of architecture Trump has “long preferred,” the Post reported.

“Corinthian is the highest order [of column], and that’s what our other two branches of government have,” Cook Jr. said in an interview last week, per The Post. “Why the White House didn’t originally use them, at least on the north front, which is considered the front door, is beyond me.”

The suggestion that the White House’s iconic front entrance may see its columns – which have stood for nearly 200 years – ripped out and replaced left several architects and designers floored.

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