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highplainsdem

(63,918 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:04 PM 2 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.

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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.”

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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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maxsolomon

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

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

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,531 posts)
2. *facepalm*
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:13 PM
2 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

(14,729 posts)
10. Oh, please. We're begging. Hasn't this man devastated enough lives?
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 09:11 PM
1 hr 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

(28,104 posts)
15. I hear you, and -hope- so!
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 10:21 PM
26 min 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

(14,729 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
2 hrs ago

... and rebuild?

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

Deuxcents

(28,454 posts)
9. We're a bottomless pit of money for his projects
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 08:48 PM
2 hrs ago

Beautifying, he calls it. Destruction is more like it

Ferryboat

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

(29,480 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
41 min 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
2 min ago

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

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