{"id":298810,"date":"2025-11-18T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298810\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:15:10","slug":"preservationists-sue-to-stop-trump-from-painting-eisenhower-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298810\/","title":{"rendered":"Preservationists sue to stop Trump from painting Eisenhower building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preservationists are going to court to stop President Donald Trump from making his mark on another historic building in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump said in an interview last week that he was \u201cgetting bids right now\u201d to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/eenews\/f\/eenews\/?id=0000019a-9320-d49b-af9f-b7e45b450000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">preservationists sued the administration<\/a> and will soon ask a federal court in Washington to immediately halt the president\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never sought a restraining order against a sitting president,\u201d said Greg Werkheiser, founding partner of the Cultural Heritage Partners law firm and one of the challengers in the case. \u201cBut unusual times call for unusual strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Werkheiser said he was inspired to move quickly with the legal challenge after the president\u2019s musings about plans to build a massive ballroom led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/eenews\/2025\/10\/22\/white-house-demolition-sends-shock-waves-spurs-calls-for-pause-00618230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">abrupt demolition last month<\/a> of the White House\u2019s East Wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preservationists are going to court to stop President Donald Trump from making his mark on another historic building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-298810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}