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'Giant tarp' at White House startles reporters amid Trump update to iconic columns
The White House, Recast as a Trump PropertyThe building is the messageA tarp printed to mimic the White House’s own columns now hangs over the North Portico while crews work on “standard stonework and crack repairs.” That is the official story. The political story is simpler: the sitting president and his appointees are treating the country’s most important public building as a redesign project for personal taste, with the scaffolding hidden behind theater.Repair as coverThis is not just maintenance. Trump has already said the White House looked like a “s—t house,” and his allies are now…
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