{"id":375208,"date":"2025-11-13T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375208\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:14:13","slug":"fox-host-laura-ingraham-skewers-trumps-plans-for-next-renovation-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375208\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Host Laura Ingraham Skewers Trump\u2019s Plans for Next Renovation Target"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump revealed the next target for his White House renovation scheme in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday night: the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.<\/p>\n

Showing host Laura Ingraham a mock-up of his renovations which would see him paint the 137-year-old building stark white, Trump said, \u201cLook at that, how beautiful that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingraham, who noted that she worked in the building during the Reagan administration, responded, \u201cAre you not worried it\u2019s like… a big white blob?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, what it does is it brings out the detail,\u201d Trump retorted, as Ingraham appeared to cringe at the mock-up.<\/p>\n

\"Mock-upTrump showed Ingraham a mock-up of the proposed renovations to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Fox News <\/p>\n

The president went on to claim that when the building was built in 1888, people considered it a \u201creally ugly\u201d building, but he looked at it and saw the potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey used greystone, grey is for funerals, look at it now, how beautiful that is,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n

When asked by Ingraham when the renovation might be scheduled for, the president clarified that he wasn\u2019t even sure if the renovations would be moving ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m going to do it yet, I\u2019m getting costs, I\u2019m getting bids right now from painters, and we\u2019ll see. It would be a great addition to Washington,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Eisenhower Executive Office Building is currently primarily gray. STR\/NurPhoto via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The EEOB was built in 1888 and was formerly known as the State, War and Navy Department building. Built in French Second Empire style, it would later influence<\/a> Charles Addams when he was designing the Addams Family mansion in his iconic cartoon. <\/p>\n

If the renovation goes ahead, it would join other Trump 2.0 projects, including the complete demolition of the East Wing of the White House<\/a> in order to build a $300 million ballroom and the radically remodeled Lincoln Bathroom, which is now made entirely of marble<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The president has received considerable backlash over the renovations, including questions surrounding the donors to his massive ballroom project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn excavator sits on the rubble after the East Wing of the White House was demolished on October 28, 2025 to accommodate President Trump’s plans to construct a ballroom. Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

During their interview, the president showed Ingraham some of the changes he has made to the White House during the first ten months of his second term, which include adding a Presidential Walk of Fame<\/a> to the White House colonnade.<\/p>\n

When asked by Ingraham who thought of the Walk of Fame, which features portraits of every president set in gilded frames\u2014save for President Joe Biden, who is represented by a photo of an autopen<\/a> he used during his presidency\u2014Trump explained that it was all him.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is my idea, sadly,\u201d he told Ingraham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump revealed the next target for his White House renovation scheme in an interview with Fox…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77,654,18978,50,5223,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-375208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-fox-news","10":"tag-laura-ingraham","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-white-house","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115540687295203524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}