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highplainsdem

(63,930 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:04 PM 11 hrs ago

Giant Printed Tarps Are Now Hanging Off The White House

Source: HuffPost

President Donald Trump’s sweeping makeover of the White House continued Thursday as images emerged of massive tarps being draped over the columns of the famous North Portico entrance.

The new coverings on the building’s façade, held up by scaffolding, are printed with images of the columns underneath.

-snip-

Bergum said Trump complained about “door dings” in the columns when greeting world leaders, and builders will carry out “historic renovation work.”

On Monday, Trump referred to work being done on the White House columns as he surveyed his remodeling of the People’s House, saying, “we’ve taken about 150 years of paint off of the columns.”

-snip-

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tarps-white-house-columns_n_6a500246e4b08b2da6894bb8



The covering at the North Portico entrance is printed with images of the columns underneath.

HuffPost (@huffpost.com) 2026-07-09T21:50:44.183Z




The White House has thrown up printed tarps to cover up the president’s latest construction project.

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T19:11:53.415Z
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Giant Printed Tarps Are Now Hanging Off The White House (Original Post) highplainsdem 11 hrs ago OP
Yeah, he's going to replace the Ionic columns with Corinthian. maxsolomon 10 hrs ago #1
With some cheap "gold" finish n/t hibbing 7 hrs ago #23
*facepalm* buzzycrumbhunger 10 hrs ago #2
I don't understand how this is allowed. Joinfortmill 10 hrs ago #3
Doesn't matter if it is legal, no one will stop him vapor2 10 hrs ago #5
That is what really gets me....on everything hookaleft 10 hrs ago #8
Don't forget to put a giant flashing neon sign on the roof dalton99a 10 hrs ago #4
I hope the next world leader to visit trump, is a netherworld leader. C Moon 10 hrs ago #6
Oh, please. We're begging. Hasn't this man devastated enough lives? pat_k 9 hrs ago #10
I hear you, and -hope- so! electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #15
I've had dreams that is it all a nightmare, and then I wake up to the nightmare. But it WILL END. pat_k 5 hrs ago #30
While I do get angry, scared, and upset....I get back to joy, fun and wonderment! electric_blue68 5 hrs ago #31
WTF?? A door ding? They have no touch up paint?? Have to spend millions to strip old paint... pat_k 10 hrs ago #7
We're a bottomless pit of money for his projects Deuxcents 10 hrs ago #9
They are lying about this being a restoration. LudwigPastorius 8 hrs ago #19
I fear you may be right. pat_k 7 hrs ago #20
Column wildflowergardener 9 hrs ago #11
TSF will have grifted billions before he is removed. Ferryboat 9 hrs ago #12
Wait Wait. LilElf70 9 hrs ago #13
We should probably start a Go Fund Me now to collect money to restore the White House when he's finally gone dflprincess 9 hrs ago #14
And WHO is paying for this fucking abortion? GiqueCee 8 hrs ago #16
Sure Ionic aren't fancy enough for him. Figarosmom 8 hrs ago #17
He does not own the White House Grim Chieftain 8 hrs ago #18
That is the People's House Seinan Sensei 7 hrs ago #22
Exactly Grim Chieftain 7 hrs ago #24
"A hundred-and-fifty years... BurnDoubt 7 hrs ago #21
Actually, most EPA and OHSA rules do noy apply on federal property lapfog_1 6 hrs ago #27
Thanks for the update. BurnDoubt 6 hrs ago #29
I really want to scream and cuss and pitch a fit right now! liberalla 7 hrs ago #25
Bet the new columns look like giant letter "T"s Midnight Writer 7 hrs ago #26
Begs the question: Aussie105 6 hrs ago #28

maxsolomon

(39,542 posts)
1. Yeah, he's going to replace the Ionic columns with Corinthian.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:11 PM
10 hrs ago

That's why they're screening it from view.

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,532 posts)
2. *facepalm*
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:13 PM
10 hrs ago

This bozo needs to die soonest. So help me, if those come down and everything is covered in gold foil appliqués from the craft store, someone should help him along even sooner—preferably before he succeeds in turning the cherry trees into his personal fucking golf course…

pat_k

(14,733 posts)
10. Oh, please. We're begging. Hasn't this man devastated enough lives?
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 09:11 PM
9 hrs ago

Hasn't he wreaked enough destruction upon the remnants of the functional liberal democracy that emerged as we actually made progress on the road to a more perfect union? From the fall of Jim Crowe in the 50's, to the aspirations of a political party that no longer exists, but whose aspirations were expressed in the 1956 Republican platform.

On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
...
We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land.


And on to meaningful progress on civil rights for African Americans in the 60's, and then meaningful progress for women's rights in the 1970's.

Followed by backlash in the form of a forty-five year project by the radical right to turn back all that progress and transfer more than 50 trillion from the many to the few while making it impossible for ordinary people, disabled people, people born in poverty to access the American dream, however hard they worked.

Trump didn't co-opt the Republican Party. The Republican Party has been advancing its racist, immoral, soulless project to destroy the powerhouse of progress that a functional liberal democracy represents for more than 40 years. And Trump is merely the culmination.

And they have gone too far.

And that is their undoing.

This is not the victory of fascist corporatism.

OUR backlash will be SOOOO much more powerful over the next few decades than the backlash of the soulless, immoral, racists ever has been.




electric_blue68

(28,107 posts)
15. I hear you, and -hope- so!
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:21 PM
8 hrs ago

These drumphf terms could have been Political Science Fiction (I believe there is a sub-genre: Alt History), but; noooo it has to the effin' timeline we're living in!
😑 😬 😔

pat_k

(14,733 posts)
30. I've had dreams that is it all a nightmare, and then I wake up to the nightmare. But it WILL END.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:38 AM
5 hrs ago

And in the meantime, in addition to the little bits of good I can do, I remember to find Joy as Defiance:

electric_blue68

(28,107 posts)
31. While I do get angry, scared, and upset....I get back to joy, fun and wonderment!
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 01:54 AM
5 hrs ago

I'm an life long NYC'r.
I spent about 11 months 9/80 - mid 8/81 up on the 73rd flr NE corner office of South Tower 2. incredible views!

For 2 weeks after 9-11 I'd wake up on these beautiful late Summer, early Fall mornings....it would be about 10 mins or so until I remembered.

pat_k

(14,733 posts)
7. WTF?? A door ding? They have no touch up paint?? Have to spend millions to strip old paint...
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:42 PM
10 hrs ago

... and rebuild?

Undoubtedly adding gaudy gold leaf and even less durable materials that will look like shit inside three months?

Deuxcents

(28,455 posts)
9. We're a bottomless pit of money for his projects
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:48 PM
10 hrs ago

Beautifying, he calls it. Destruction is more like it

LudwigPastorius

(15,334 posts)
19. They are lying about this being a restoration.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:00 PM
8 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:35 PM - Edit history (1)

Why conceal the columns for a simple strip, repair, and repaint job?

Trump will spend millions on new granite columns...and the Republican Congress will do nothing because they afraid of him.

Ferryboat

(1,294 posts)
12. TSF will have grifted billions before he is removed.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 09:18 PM
9 hrs ago

All cost should be paid out from the T$$$$ criminal organization. Seize assets from the kids for their part.
He will croak before long, go after the estate.
All of the ill gotten gains must be recovered.
The cost of restoration will be huge.

LilElf70

(1,759 posts)
13. Wait Wait.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 09:19 PM
9 hrs ago

Hasn't he heard of architects? They draw pictures for a living. Purchasing his stupid tarps are such a waste of time and money. I wouldn't be surprised to see him give the OK to start building with the tarps up.

I know of no one that approved of this waste of funds. I guess it really don't matter because he thinks he is the rule of law.

And still. NO funding towards any healthcare? Education?

I'm sure by now he has thrown away TRILLIONS in money. Throwing away trillions in 2 years would certainly cover healthcare for all, wouldn't it? And people still suffer. I am so sick of this ignorance, stupidity, and corruption, I could puke.

What is it going to take for this shit to stop?

dflprincess

(29,481 posts)
14. We should probably start a Go Fund Me now to collect money to restore the White House when he's finally gone
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:06 PM
9 hrs ago

I've been thinking that the next First Spouse can make fixing everything their project.

Maybe a show a HGTV so we can all see the progress.

GiqueCee

(5,229 posts)
16. And WHO is paying for this fucking abortion?
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:46 PM
8 hrs ago

Republicans: Time to tear him apart, otherwise you're going down with him.

Figarosmom

(15,156 posts)
17. Sure Ionic aren't fancy enough for him.
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:53 PM
8 hrs ago

He'll probably change them to Corinthian with gold plate or leafing on the acanthus leaf fluting of the capital.

Grim Chieftain

(2,415 posts)
18. He does not own the White House
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:58 PM
8 hrs ago

There are laws about desecrating or destroying public property. Will no one stand up to this deranged idiot? He does not have the right or the legal power to do what he's done.

Make it stop!!!!!

BurnDoubt

(1,995 posts)
21. "A hundred-and-fifty years...
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:17 PM
7 hrs ago

of paint”……
Did anyone check to make sure “Lead Abatement Protocols” were being observed?
Oh, wait… Super-Duper Immunity, amirite?

I can’t wait to see what all this bullshit is being spread to cover. It must be HUGE, for him to get up every day and expose his dick like a creepy flasher to mis-direct our attention away from the real crimes.
Every morning I wake hoping to hear “A Canticle For Orrex”.
Make It So.

lapfog_1

(32,091 posts)
27. Actually, most EPA and OHSA rules do noy apply on federal property
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:10 AM
6 hrs ago

speaking as someone who worked on federal property for over 10 years.

BurnDoubt

(1,995 posts)
29. Thanks for the update.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:19 AM
6 hrs ago

Of Course.
Republicans hate the Administrative State.
That may be why they don’t enforce the Law.
Unless yer a Democrat or “cullud”. Or Woke.

liberalla

(11,321 posts)
25. I really want to scream and cuss and pitch a fit right now!
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:48 PM
7 hrs ago

I have a suggestion for the orange menace.
Complete one project before you start another!
Especially at the WH... The grounds are a frickin mess, the East Wing destroyed, and the ballroom a gaping hole...
Come on, man!

Maddening!

Midnight Writer

(26,077 posts)
26. Bet the new columns look like giant letter "T"s
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:03 AM
7 hrs ago

He's also redoing the public Men's Room with urinals that look like the Obamas' and the Clintons' mouths.

I'm not worried about the columns, though. I'm sure the coller heads in the Administration will stand up to him and talk him down.

Well, maybe not exactly "stand up". Their feet are probably pretty sore from wearing those fucking misfit Florsheims.

Aussie105

(8,418 posts)
28. Begs the question:
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 12:13 AM
6 hrs ago

If a temporary tenant stuffs up a house so much, will the actual owner of the house declare it unfixable and commit to demolishing it once a feral tenant like Trump the Destructor moves out?

And . . . who covers the cost of the repairs or rebuild?
In real life, the exiting tenant would be held responsible.

But . . . Rhetorical question - taxpayers will foot the bill of course.

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