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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,034 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:07 AM Jan 21

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 Jan 21 OP
So far shithole musk are destroying.... Lovie777 Jan 21 #1
Who will be America's Albert Speer? nt cactusfractal Jan 21 #2
Good question lonely bird Jan 21 #5
Gibson, Stallone, and Voight will find one. Harker Jan 21 #10
My buddy just texted me... lonely bird Jan 21 #16
No doubt the "talent" will consist of has-beens and never-will-bes. Harker Jan 21 #17
What's the grift on this one? Irish_Dem Jan 21 #3
Yeah. He doesnt do anything johnnyfins Jan 21 #4
They want to be on the cover of Vogue. Irish_Dem Jan 21 #7
100% certain that Trump signs NOTHING unless there is something in it for him personally. Irish_Dem Jan 21 #8
His name on the building Owens Jan 21 #20
He will lie, cheat, steal every single taxpayer dollar he can. Irish_Dem Jan 21 #21
Yesterday WAS the funeral for the free America... IthinkThereforeIAM Jan 21 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Wifes husband Jan 21 #30
Maybe to get rid of things he considers ugly. nt Ohiya Jan 21 #22
Yes but there has to be a money motive for him to do it on day one or day two. Irish_Dem Jan 21 #23
Donnie wants a lot more flags and statues of himself Blue_Tires Jan 21 #29
Every thing named after him and the Trump dynasty. Irish_Dem Jan 21 #31
So southern generals and racists are back? kerouac2 Jan 21 #6
Actually lonely bird Jan 21 #12
I would bet he doesn't know half the orders he signed. JohnnyRingo Jan 21 #9
Hmmm lonely bird Jan 21 #14
This particular one is dumb and poorly written. LeftInTX Jan 21 #27
Over every door an eagle clutching a golden toilet? Harker Jan 21 #11
Make Architecture Gaudy Again Wingus Dingus Jan 21 #13
Make Architecture Faux Roman Again: remember, Roman tends Fascist. Albert Speer loved Roman. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 21 #15
Let me guess... hamsterjill Jan 21 #18
Did the order require . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 21 #19
New barracks will get a facelift! Military housing will look beautiful LeftInTX Jan 21 #25
When the movie "Devil's Advocate" was being filmed, they wanted the gaudiest, most obnoxiously over-the-top Maeve Jan 21 #26
The planning has already been done for him. LudwigPastorius Jan 21 #28
Is that Berlin as Ilsa Jan 22 #34
Surely that will bring down the price of eggs. Vinca Jan 21 #32
You mean the shitty architecture at his buildings? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 21 #33

Lovie777

(17,689 posts)
1. So far shithole musk are destroying....
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:11 AM
Jan 21

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

lonely bird

(2,197 posts)
5. Good question
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:23 AM
Jan 21

You beat me to it.

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

Harker

(15,974 posts)
10. Gibson, Stallone, and Voight will find one.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jan 21

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

lonely bird

(2,197 posts)
16. My buddy just texted me...
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:43 AM
Jan 21

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

Harker

(15,974 posts)
17. No doubt the "talent" will consist of has-beens and never-will-bes.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
Jan 21

We'll see who feels emboldened.

johnnyfins

(1,900 posts)
4. Yeah. He doesnt do anything
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:22 AM
Jan 21

Unless theres something in it for him.

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

Irish_Dem

(67,308 posts)
7. They want to be on the cover of Vogue.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:39 AM
Jan 21

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.

Response to IthinkThereforeIAM (Reply #24)

kerouac2

(1,135 posts)
6. So southern generals and racists are back?
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 09:27 AM
Jan 21

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

JohnnyRingo

(19,792 posts)
9. I would bet he doesn't know half the orders he signed.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:07 AM
Jan 21

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

(32,761 posts)
27. This particular one is dumb and poorly written.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jan 21

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)

AverageOldGuy

(2,513 posts)
19. Did the order require . . .
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:09 AM
Jan 21

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

Maeve

(43,181 posts)
26. When the movie "Devil's Advocate" was being filmed, they wanted the gaudiest, most obnoxiously over-the-top
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 03:44 PM
Jan 21

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.

Ilsa

(62,671 posts)
34. Is that Berlin as
Wed Jan 22, 2025, 02:05 AM
Jan 22

Hitler wanted to see it? With the gigantic stadium that was so big it had its own weather?

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