{"id":525207,"date":"2026-03-15T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525207\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:37:06","slug":"trump-ally-wants-to-give-white-houses-entrance-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525207\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally wants to give White House\u2019s entrance a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3VKWGQUS6ZA2JGI6HSHQFZHLHY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For nearly two centuries, the White House\u2019s main entrance \u2014 framed by a row of graceful Ionic columns \u2014 has been a signature image of the seat of American power.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Y7AWJVYBNBGVRELXLD5OAVCQZM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Now the Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. They have long been deployed on Trump\u2019s properties, and the president has handpicked them for his planned White House ballroom, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For nearly two centuries, the White House\u2019s main entrance \u2014 framed by a row of graceful Ionic columns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-525207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525207","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=525207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}