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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:34 PM Nov 13

MaddowBlog-Trump's White House renovation ambitions take a weird turn

Trump too often seems less like a president and more like someone who’s stumbled upon a Sim City: White House Edition video game that he can’t put down.

As Trump talks up plans to turn the White House’s Executive Office Building into a giant white blob, he seems less like a president and more like someone who found a “Sim City: White House Edition” video game and just can’t put it down. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-13T18:44:20.453Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-white-house-renovation-ambitions-take-weird-turn-rcna243736

But as part of the same interview, the Republican also made some news about other elements of his White House renovation ambitions.



“Is the Executive Office Building color going to be changed?” Ingraham asked Trump, adding that she’d “heard a rumor” about this. The president proceeded to show her (and viewers) a mockup of a building covered completely in pale white paint.

“You don’t worry that it’s like a big white blob?” the Fox host asked. The president quickly dismissed the possibility. “No, no,” he replied. “What it does is it brings out all the details.”

For those unfamiliar with the White House complex, there’s the structure most people think of when they think of the presidential mansion. It’s bracketed (or at least it was bracketed) by a West Wing and an East Wing, the latter of which was recently destroyed.....

So let’s take stock.

Trump had already destroyed the East Wing. And paved the Rose Garden. And added gold finishes to just about everything in the Oval Office. And announced plans for a wildly unnecessary ballroom. And installed a needlessly large flagpole. And ripped apart the Lincoln Bedroom’s bathroom. And uprooted the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. And ripped out historic trees. And installed a ridiculous “Presidential Walk of Fame” on the West Colonnade. And put up a silly Oval Office sign on the wall outside his office.....

Trump too often seems less like a president and more like someone who has stumbled upon a Sim City: White House Edition video game that he just can’t put down.


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