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mahatmakanejeeves

(62,207 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:07 AM 12 hrs ago

Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture"

Source: DeZeen

Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture"

Tom Ravenscroft | 3 hours ago

US president Donald Trump has issued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order on his first day back in office. ... One of numerous executive orders issued on his inauguration day yesterday, the presidential action aims to promote the use of "traditional and classical" architecture for civic buildings. ... The order requires heads of US government departments to submit recommendations to Trump within 60 days.

Order aims to "uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States"

"I hereby direct the administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the assistant to the president for Domestic Policy and the heads of departments and agencies of the United States where necessary, to submit to me within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government," said the order.

In particular the order requests suggestions on how to update the US government's Guiding principles for federal architecture, which were created in 1962, and for increasing "community input" into design decisions.

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Read more: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/trump-promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture-executive-order/



https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture/
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Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 12 hrs ago OP
So far shithole musk are destroying.... Lovie777 12 hrs ago #1
Who will be America's Albert Speer? nt cactusfractal 12 hrs ago #2
Good question lonely bird 11 hrs ago #5
Gibson, Stallone, and Voight will find one. Harker 11 hrs ago #10
My buddy just texted me... lonely bird 10 hrs ago #16
No doubt the "talent" will consist of has-beens and never-will-bes. Harker 10 hrs ago #17
What's the grift on this one? Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #3
Yeah. He doesnt do anything johnnyfins 11 hrs ago #4
They want to be on the cover of Vogue. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #7
100% certain that Trump signs NOTHING unless there is something in it for him personally. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #8
His name on the building Owens 9 hrs ago #20
He will lie, cheat, steal every single taxpayer dollar he can. Irish_Dem 9 hrs ago #21
Yesterday WAS the funeral for the free America... IthinkThereforeIAM 5 hrs ago #24
Hat Wifes husband 5 hrs ago #30
Maybe to get rid of things he considers ugly. nt Ohiya 9 hrs ago #22
Yes but there has to be a money motive for him to do it on day one or day two. Irish_Dem 9 hrs ago #23
Donnie wants a lot more flags and statues of himself Blue_Tires 5 hrs ago #29
Every thing named after him and the Trump dynasty. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #31
So southern generals and racists are back? kerouac2 11 hrs ago #6
Actually lonely bird 10 hrs ago #12
I would bet he doesn't know half the orders he signed. JohnnyRingo 11 hrs ago #9
Hmmm lonely bird 10 hrs ago #14
This particular one is dumb and poorly written. LeftInTX 5 hrs ago #27
Over every door an eagle clutching a golden toilet? Harker 11 hrs ago #11
Make Architecture Gaudy Again Wingus Dingus 10 hrs ago #13
Make Architecture Faux Roman Again: remember, Roman tends Fascist. Albert Speer loved Roman. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz 10 hrs ago #15
Let me guess... hamsterjill 10 hrs ago #18
Did the order require . . . AverageOldGuy 10 hrs ago #19
New barracks will get a facelift! Military housing will look beautiful LeftInTX 5 hrs ago #25
When the movie "Devil's Advocate" was being filmed, they wanted the gaudiest, most obnoxiously over-the-top Maeve 5 hrs ago #26
The planning has already been done for him. LudwigPastorius 5 hrs ago #28
Surely that will bring down the price of eggs. Vinca 4 hrs ago #32
You mean the shitty architecture at his buildings? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 9 min ago #33

Lovie777

(15,664 posts)
1. So far shithole musk are destroying....
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:11 AM
12 hrs ago

People’s livelihood. Nothing good will come out of this.

lonely bird

(2,025 posts)
5. Good question
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:23 AM
11 hrs ago

You beat me to it.

So, one assumes Der Ubergroppenfuhrer will want this filmed so where is the next Leni Riefenstahl.

Harker

(15,343 posts)
10. Gibson, Stallone, and Voight will find one.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:11 AM
11 hrs ago

I carefully watched Riefenstahl's "Triumph des Willens" last week.

lonely bird

(2,025 posts)
16. My buddy just texted me...
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:43 AM
10 hrs ago

He says they will use “Amerikkka’s Got Talent” for the search.

Harker

(15,343 posts)
17. No doubt the "talent" will consist of has-beens and never-will-bes.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
10 hrs ago

We'll see who feels emboldened.

johnnyfins

(1,570 posts)
4. Yeah. He doesnt do anything
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:22 AM
11 hrs ago

Unless theres something in it for him.

By the way, were Melania and Ivanka dressed for a funeral yesterday?

Irish_Dem

(61,398 posts)
7. They want to be on the cover of Vogue.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:39 AM
11 hrs ago

So they are dressing in what they think is a sophisticated way.

So far Vogue has dissed them, they are not interested in the Trump Trash Look.

But I suppose that will change now since everyone is kissing up
to the Trump crime syndicate Royal Family.

Irish_Dem

(61,398 posts)
8. 100% certain that Trump signs NOTHING unless there is something in it for him personally.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:39 AM
11 hrs ago

Wifes husband

(180 posts)
30. Hat
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 03:01 PM
5 hrs ago

Can you imagine the joy of the person who convinced her to wear that hat?

You just can't buy class. It originates from within and cannot be faked or bought

kerouac2

(777 posts)
6. So southern generals and racists are back?
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 08:27 AM
11 hrs ago

Is that an accurate result? Regional choice for visual civic areas? Bringing back old statues and putting his own trump statues up?

JohnnyRingo

(19,520 posts)
9. I would bet he doesn't know half the orders he signed.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:07 AM
11 hrs ago

His cabinet, pending Stephen Miller's approval, probably handed in a wish list for Day One XOs.
This one sounds pretty off the wall, but if you thought about it you could narrow it down.

LeftInTX

(31,535 posts)
27. This particular one is dumb and poorly written.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 02:50 PM
5 hrs ago

It was probably done at his personal request. He probably was thinking, "You know some of these newer federal buildings these days are too plain and boring". (He probably noticed that when he was POTUS 45)

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,893 posts)
15. Make Architecture Faux Roman Again: remember, Roman tends Fascist. Albert Speer loved Roman. . . .nt
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:40 AM
10 hrs ago

AverageOldGuy

(2,306 posts)
19. Did the order require . . .
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:09 AM
10 hrs ago

. . . that all federal buildings be named "The Donald J. Trump FBI Building," The Donald J. Trump Lincoln Memorial," . . . . . ??

Maeve

(43,085 posts)
26. When the movie "Devil's Advocate" was being filmed, they wanted the gaudiest, most obnoxiously over-the-top
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 02:44 PM
5 hrs ago

apartment they could find in NYC. Some place tasteless, "more dollars than sense", the kind a real decorator would be ashamed of.

Yep, tRump tower supplied the rooms.

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