Last month, the Trump Administration
drafted an executive order decreeing
that new federal buildings be designed
in the neoclassical style shared by
beloved landmarks ranging from the
White House and the Lincoln
Memorial to Graceland. Given how
the President always demands
ideological consistency between his
public and private lives—his refusal
to hire undocumented workers at
Trump Organization properties;
his insistence that all Trump-branded
products be made in America and
never in China or Bangladesh; his
devotion to the Christian morals
espoused by his evangelical base—
we will surely see his most prized
business properties get their own
makeovers very soon. —Bruce Handy
The new XVIIIth hole at Trump National Golf Club
and Sacred Grove, in Bedminster, New Jersey.The glamorous eighties modernism of
Trump Tower in Manhattan is
transformed by the equally glamorous
neoclassical mode favored in Las Vegas.The future Trump Library and
Eternal Rally Site Complex
(formerly the Trump Doral).Cutting-edge scholarship has
revealed that ancient statuary was
originally painted in colors that,
though gaudy to modern eyes, were
intended to have a lifelike effect.
In this way, the President has
long been a living proponent of the
neoclassical style. A new imperial
haircut is the perfect finishing touch!SKETCHPAD
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The stoic First Lady gets a
stylish Doric makeover.