Giant Printed Tarps Are Now Hanging Off The White House

[highplainsdem]

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

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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

[maxsolomon]

1. Yeah, he's going to replace the Ionic columns with Corinthian.

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

[hibbing]

23. With some cheap "gold" finish n/t

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. *facepalm*

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…

[Joinfortmill]

3. I don't understand how this is allowed.

[vapor2]

5. Doesn't matter if it is legal, no one will stop him

[hookaleft]

8. That is what really gets me....on everything

NO ONE WILL STOP HIM!!

[dalton99a]

4. Don't forget to put a giant flashing neon sign on the roof

[C Moon]

6. I hope the next world leader to visit trump, is a netherworld leader.

[pat_k]

10. Oh, please. We're begging. Hasn't this man devastated enough lives?

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]

15. I hear you, and -hope- so!

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]

30. I've had dreams that is it all a nightmare, and then I wake up to the nightmare. But it WILL END.

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

[electric_blue68]

31. While I do get angry, scared, and upset....I get back to joy, fun and wonderment!

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]

7. WTF?? A door ding? They have no touch up paint?? Have to spend millions to strip old paint...

... and rebuild?

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

[Deuxcents]

9. We're a bottomless pit of money for his projects

Beautifying, he calls it. Destruction is more like it

[LudwigPastorius]

19. They are lying about this being a restoration.

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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.

[pat_k]

20. I fear you may be right.

[wildflowergardener]

11. Column

It would be a shame if he tears down a column and the building collapses on him

[Ferryboat]

12. TSF will have grifted billions before he is removed.

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]

13. Wait Wait.

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]

14. We should probably start a Go Fund Me now to collect money to restore the White House when he's finally gone

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]

16. And WHO is paying for this fucking abortion?

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

[Figarosmom]

17. Sure Ionic aren't fancy enough for him.

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

[Grim Chieftain]

18. He does not own the White House

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!!!!!

[Seinan Sensei]

22. That is the People's House

He is merely a tenant

[Grim Chieftain]

24. Exactly

[BurnDoubt]

21. "A hundred-and-fifty years...

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]

27. Actually, most EPA and OHSA rules do noy apply on federal property

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

[BurnDoubt]

29. Thanks for the update.

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]

25. I really want to scream and cuss and pitch a fit right now!

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. Bet the new columns look like giant letter "T"s

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]

28. Begs the question:

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.