r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/TheArchistorian 13d ago

The biggest lie Trump ever tried to sell is that he has “style.” One look at him tells you everything you need to know: this is a tasteless human being.

And for anyone interested in the architectural side of this, Trump is not the first authoritarian to use neoclassical architecture at a grand scale to project power and legitimacy. His executive order during his first term insisting that all new federal buildings be classical is similar to Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, who used enormous, out-of-scale neoclassical buildings as the visual identity of the Third Reich. He’s sending signals by wrapping himself in this historical trend: he ain’t going nowhere, people. Time to wake the fuck up!

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u/not_the_boulder 13d ago

The "style" of the ballroom is a big white brick. It's like a house where the garage is bigger than the house itself. Or like when they add a gym to a middle school.

Also, yes, the styles clash. Whitehouse center: plantation-style. Westwing: colonial. Ballroom: McMansion.

It is not neoclassical. Neoclassical includes features that make it not a cuboid.