Lewzer turns to White House columns for next project

Friday, July 10, 2026

The White House North Portico is covered with significant scaffolding, now covered by a drape, that's gone up in recent days as workers rehabilitate the exterior columns at President Donald Trump's request. The column updates mark the latest effort in a spate of construction projects the president, a former real estate developer, has undertaken both at the White House and across Washington, DC.

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"We've taken about 150 years of paint off of the columns, and re-did them," Trump told a crowd of supporters in the Rose Garden on Monday, asking if they'd noticed the scaffolding. Trump questioned whether his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, noticed problems with the columns. "Do you think he walked in the office and said, I don't like the shape of the columns'? I don't think so, Biden. I don't like the shape of the columns " he didn't notice things like that."

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