District of Columbia

Paint Job
President Trump shares plans for “cleaning, pointing, and painting” the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

By Daniel Jonas Roche • November 14, 2025 • Architecture, East, News, Preservation


On social media, Trump shared before-and-after renderings of the building’s granite facade repainted white. (Truth Social)

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) faces the White House. It’s home to 1,500 federal employees in the President’s executive office, including the Office of the Vice President, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of War (previously Defense). The EEOB is where Elon Musk was rumored to have been sleeping on the floor, before his falling out with the President.

Soon, the EEOB will be given the Trump treatment with a new paint job, the President told Fox News this week. Trump said to Laura Ingraham the project entails “cleaning, pointing, and painting.” He first shared before-and-after renderings of this vision for the EEOB in August, and is now soliciting bids from painters for the project. ... In the Oval Office this week, Ingraham asked Trump if he’s worried about turning the EEOB into a “big white blob.” Trump said no, and that the renovation is about “bringing out the detailing.”

The rehabilitation denotes the latest architectural project Trump has taken upon himself in Washington D.C. Recently, Trump gutted the bathroom flanking the Lincoln Bedroom. He has likewise emblazoned gold decor (from Home Depot?) on the walls of the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, paved over the Rose Garden, and knocked down the East Wing to make way for a $300 million ballroom. ... Now, he has his sights set on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.


The Eisenhower Executive Office Building today (Abovfold/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0)

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