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
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
