A potential executive order aims to make federal buildings beautiful again, and President Trump’s critics are losing their minds.
Last week, art enthusiasts and journalists began prognosticating about a draft of an executive order titled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.” Its mission would be to keep new federal buildings from becoming modernist, brutalist eyesores such as the current structures housing the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the United States Postal Service. Of the FBI building, Trump once said, perhaps accurately, “Honestly, I think it’s one of the ugliest buildings in the city.”
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