‘Giant tarp’ at White House startles reporters amid Trump update to iconic columns

law enforcement dinner, Trump said he would normally have called the building “a s—t house,” claiming “the columns were falling down” and “the plaster was falling off.”

The work is unfolding as Trump’s appointee to chair the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., has proposed swapping the North Portico’s Ionic columns for the more ornate continue reading …